Brussels, 03 Sep 2003 Women and Science In most European countries, the numbers of female graduates are proportionately higher than those of male graduates. However, the scientific labour market...
Brussels, 03 Sep 2003 As evidence came to light of endocrinal changes in mammals and increased testicular cancer and lower male sperm counts, policy-makers knew action was needed. The EU's new...
Brussels, 03 Sep 2003 The European Commission has awarded funding to a new prostate cancer network funded under Priority 1, 'life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health', of the Sixth...
Paris, 03 Sep 2003 Selected by an international jury out of 104 entries from 36 countries, Lavie Tidhar's story Temporal Spider, Spatial Webs is the winner of this year's Clarke-Bradbury...
Paris, 03 Sep 2003 The latest discovery of a large asteroid moving through our Solar System puts a spotlight on the studies of these and other wandering celestial objects by the European Space Agency...
Brussels, 03 Sep 2003 An international seminar entitled 'networking for effective research and development [R&D]' will take place on 22 and 23 September in Petten, the Netherlands. The main...
Cost of university fees is 'two pints of beer a week' Graduates starting off on a salary of £18,000 a year in London would only have to give up two pints of beer a week to repay their top-up fees,...
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 Calls for tenders for the following contracts are currently open: Development of Indicators for Integrated Product Policy (OJ S 154-139788 of 13.8.2003) Internet site on life-...
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 Summary: Collaboration between EC's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Univ. of Jena (D), Univ. of Strathclyde (UK), Imperial College (UK), and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) has...
Paris, 26 August 2003 As most Europeans breathe a sigh of relief as this record-breaking summer draws to a close, the extreme weather conditions experienced in recent weeks have given us a rare view...
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 A selection of briefing papers for policy makers on the results of EU funded research projects in the field of education has been published by the European Commission. The...
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 The UK national mobility contact point is organising four information days on mobility funding opportunities under the Sixth Framework Programme. The programme for the...
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 EU Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin has called on African governments to lend their support to the European developing countries clinical trials partnership (EDCTP)....
Brussels, 02 Sep 2003 An international symposium on Eastern Mediterranean geology will take place from 14 to 20 April in Thessaloniki, Greece. The conference will provide researchers with an...
Paris, 26 August 2003 A new processing system now operational in ESA ground stations will help weather forecasters to benefit once more from unique all-weather data from the ERS-2 scatterometer....