Brussels, 16 Apr 2003 A joint French/US workshop on technology transfer and intellectual property management in public research will take place on 17 and 18 June in Lyon, France. The workshop is...
Brussels, 16 April 2003 The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) held its final meeting on 10 and 11 April 2003, six years after its creation. At that meeting, the SSC finalised opinions on 19 pending...
Paris, 16 Apr 2003 It is 20 years ago this year that Europe, in collaboration with the United States, launched the first infrared observatory into space. Its infrared powers revealed a secret...
Paris, 16 Apr 2003 Helicopter Emergency Services deal with emergency evacuations and inter-hospital transport across Europe. Improved navigation information from EGNOS could mean fewer cancelled...
Paris, 16 Apr 2003 Pescarolo Sport won Sunday's race at Estoril in Portugal, the first in the 7-event FIA Sportscar Championship, helped by technology originally designed for ESA's space programme....
Brussels, 16 Apr 2003 Full text of Document 8153/03 Suite of documents 8153/03 No. Cion prop.: 5355/03 EDUC 10 RECH 22 COM(2003) 58 final Subject: The role of the universities in the Europe of...
Quiz cheat lecturer quits The lecturer convicted of helping Charles Ingram to cheat to win the top prize on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has resigned from his job and will not now face a...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 The European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) has published a catalogue of it 103 young investigators, whom they believe to be among the best young researchers in Europe....
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 The European Commission organises the 1st Galileo Conference for an Enlarged Europe on 19, 20 May 2003 in Warsaw, Poland. This Conference aims at preparing the ground for the...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 An EU project is making ground in developing new communications technologies with a view to improving the European railway system. The integrated communication system for...
Lyon, April 10, 2003 BioSciences & Tomorrow's Industrial Sustainability Ensuring sustainable development is one of the main challenges of the modern era. Three weeks ago, at the Spring...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 The Research Directorate General has launched a mailbox for legal and financial questions concerning the implementation and management of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). By...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 An expert group on intellectual property rights (IPRs) has warned that rules governing the protection of copyrights, database rights and patents hamper scientific endeavour and...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 The UK has clarified its position on inventions involving human embryonic stem cells by outlining under what circumstances it would consider granting them a patent. In a...
Brussels, 15 Apr 2003 New legislation permitting cloning for therapeutic purposes and research using human in vitro embryos, was adopted by the Belgian parliament on 3 April. The legal text specifies...