Brussels, 12 February 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Note: Certain aspects of COST. Brussels, 8 February 2002 (document COST 211/02)....
Brussels, 11 February 2002 An international organisation is to be set up later this year to assist governments and health researchers in the developing world to negotiate better deals for drug access...
Grants reinstated for Welsh students Student grants are to be reintroduced in Wales from September, education minister Jane Davidson will announce to the Welsh Assembly today. Students in...
What was the weather like when you were in the womb? A few years ago John McGrath came up with the idea that the chances of developing schizophrenia depended on how sunny it was in the months before...
Brussels, 11 February 2002 The first meeting of a new European network for research in cancer therapy will take place at CERN (the European organisation for nuclear research) on 12 and 13 February...
Paris, 11 February 2002 From its vantage point in sun-synchronous orbit, the European Space Agency's new spacecraft Envisat, whose launch is scheduled end of February 2002, will tirelessly sweep the...
Paris, 11 February 2002 30 students from all over Europe have an opportunity this week to design their own space station, in ESA's unique Concurrent Design Facility. The interdisciplinary approach of...
Brussels, 11 February 2002 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is providing a new service dedicated to national and EU-funded research in Germany....
Brighter pupils allowed to skip GCSEs The most able pupils will be fast-tracked through secondary education, skipping GCSEs to go straight to AS levels, in a radical overhaul of the curriculum to be...
Getting published is the basic currency of academic life. Get it right and your career and your department will profit. Get it wrong and... who knows? You and your team may never be heard of again....
Paris, 08 February 2002 On 8 February the ESA Director of Earth Observation, José Achache, signed the contract confirming that Astrium will build the new European environmental and climate satellite...
Brussels, 7 February 2002 Meeting in Málaga, the Health Ministers have indicated their support for a proposal by Community experts for a Directive on the use of cells and tissue for transplantation....
Brussels, 08 February 2002 The European space agency (ESA) has announced that the protective ozone layer over Europe grew thinner between 28 and 30 January, leading to an increase in exposure to...
Brussels, 08 February 2002 An eEurope benchmarking report published by the European Commission on 5 February has concluded that Internet penetration in the EU may well settle below the US take-up...
Brussels, 08 February 2002 A guidance document on the use of medicinal products in the event of a bio-terrorist attack has been produced at the request of the European Commission, the Enterprise DG,...