Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has launched a joint pilot study to measure urban air pollution in Milan in January and February 2003. The initiative, in...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is providing future applicants to the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) with a new o-line form to...
Brussels, 03 Feb 2003 A workshop on advanced manufacturing technologies for the automotive industry is taking place on 13 and 14 May in London, Canada. In today's knowledge-based economy, innovation...
Transmanche University accord signed Education secretary Charles Clarke signed an accord for a cross-channel university project to link academics in southern England and northern France today at a...
Feepayers' bankruptcy loophole to be closed A loophole in the bankruptcy laws is to be closed to prevent students avoiding the payment of university top-up fees, ministers said yesterday. Charles...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 The European Group on Life Sciences (EGLS) is seeing changes since it began advising the Commission, Professor Derek Burke, a member of the group has told CORDIS News. The '...
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 Today, about 90 percent of the hardware for Jules Verne, Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) spaceship that is to fly towards the International Space Station (ISS) in...
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 Artemis has finally reached geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km above the Earth, at 21.5°E. This announcement would, if all had gone to plan, been made just a few days after lift-...
Brussels, 31 January 2003 The challenge we are now facing is to make sure that present and future discoveries will be accessible to those who need them most, particularly the poor. It is our...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 Professor Louise Fresco, an expert panellist at a conference on sustainable agriculture for developing countries in Brussels, exposed the growing gap between the promise and the...
Paris, 31 Jan 2003 The European Space Agency (ESA) has joined forces with a team led by SES Astra (Lux) on a SATMODE development contract totalling EUR 49 million. SATMODE is a satellite return link...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 Full text Tissue engineering is a new and rapidly developing technology that intends to produce viable substitutes that restore, maintain or improve the function of human...
Brussels, 31 Jan 2003 Commissioner for Research, Philippe Busquin said that Europe has a strong moral obligation towards the people of developing countries to help combat poverty and disease, as he...
Taxpayers may foot EU students' fees bill Thousands of students from the European Union may be able to study free in Britain because the government has not worked out how to make them repay tuition...
The University of California could lose the contract to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory that it has held since the inception of the Manhattan Project during the second world war. The...