Copenhagen, 21 Nov 2002 The Commission will present its communication entitled "More research for Europe: Towards 3% of GDP", and the Council will hold an exchange of views on the basis of a...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 EU Commissioner for Research, Philippe Busquin, highlighted the importance of coordinating Europe's transport research during his opening address at the 17th annual Polis...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 Full text of Document 14352/02 From: The Presidency To: Coreper/Council No. prev. doc.: 13440/02 SAN 170 CODEC 1325 No. Cion prop.: 10238/02 SAN 95 CODEC 797 Subject:...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 Full text of Document 14076/02 No. prev. doc.: 12689/02 ENV 539 AGRI 230 WTO 125 CONSOM 86 MI 194 CODEC 1192 No. Cion prop.: 12213/02 ENV 501 AGRI 213 WTO 110 CONSOM 79 MI 177...
Copenhagen, 21 Nov 2002 The Council will take stock of the situation regarding the proposed Community patent system, following on from work at its meeting on 14 November on the jurisdictional...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 Full text of Document 267/1/02 (PDF file) Council Register
Strasbourg, 20 th November 2002 I would like to thank the Rapporteur, Mrs. Damião for a report that voices strong and clear support for the responsible development of life sciences and biotechnology...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 The importance of communication for the furtherance of scientific research was emphasised by all speakers at a Swiss science briefing on 'When direct democracy and scientific...
Brussels, 21 Nov 2002 The University of Heidelberg will a workshop on 'Beyond scientific computing - modelling, simulation and experimental verification' in Brussels on 10 December. Featuring Dr....
Copenhagen, 21 Nov 2002 The Council will hold an exchange of views, on the basis of the Commission's communication "Life sciences and biotechnology - a strategy for Europe", and will be called on to...
Universities accused of impeding working-class University vice-chancellors were accused by the government yesterday of hampering efforts to recruit more students from working-class backgrounds....
The National Health Service University intends to become Britain's first corporate university, transforming not only the culture of the NHS but also lifelong learning, it was pledged this week,...
Prime minister Tony Blair held a secret meeting this week with the leading candidates to introduce top-up fees in a bid to galvanise support for the policy amid growing opposition. Mr Blair called...
An effort to bring order to the proliferation of names given to human genes has brought out proprietorial instincts in some scientists. The Human Genome Organisation gene nomenclature committee,...
The government has urged further education heads to suggest how colleges can help widen participation in higher education, after awarding the sector its "most generous funding settlement in living...