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In resolving dispute with Commission over research contract, complaint by office within Thai non-profit lacked legal personality, so complaint should be ruled manifestly inadmissible: opinion (C-547/0
Luxembourg, 13 September 2005 C-547/03 P, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) contre Commission Opinion of Advocate General Stix-Hackl on 13 September 2005 (link to English version when available)....
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Researchers are Europe’s stars for a night (plus link to background MEMO)
Brussels, 13 September 2005 23 September 2005 will see the first ‘European Researchers’ Night”. This event, part of the Researchers in Europe 2005 initiative will take...
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EU funds research on synergies between bioinformatics and medical informatics
Brussels, 13 Sep 2005 The European Commission has selected the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) to coordinate a project that will stimulate and explore synergies between bioinformatics and...
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HFEA awards licence for pioneering mitochondrial research
Brussels, 13 Sep 2005 Scientists in Newcastle, UK, have been granted a licence to carry out research aimed at preventing the transmission of mitochondrial DNA disease, a serious and distressing...
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Colloquium: 'European research major challenges', Brussels
Brussels, 13 Sep 2005 A colloquium on major challenges in European research will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 22 September. Organised by the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat &...
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Call for tenders: benchmarking in a policy perspective
Brussels, 13 Sep 2005 The Commission's Information Society DG has published a call for tenders for a study relating to benchmarking in a policy perspective within the i2010 initiative. Benchmarking...
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Study on impact of ICT on patient safety and risk management in healthcare
Brussels, 13 Sep 2005 The European Commission has published a call for tenders relating to a study on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on patient safety and risk...
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Interactive content and convergence: implications for the Information Society
Brussels, 13 Sep 2005 The Commission's Information Society DG has published a call for tenders relating to a study on 'Interactive content and convergence: implications for the Information Society'....
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Today's news
University sets up fund to exploit spin-out success Queen's University Belfast, the first in Britain to start spinning out companies in the early 1970s, has set up a fund to enable it to participate...
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Potocnik calls on Member States to implement researchers' Charter and Code
Brussels, 12 Sep 2005 Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik has told a conference on the European Charter and Code for Researchers that the immediate success of the two initiatives depends...
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European researchers move objects using molecular shuttles
Brussels, 12 Sep 2005 Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, UK, the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the University of Bologna, Italy, have succeed in making the first...
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Action needed to attract women to high-tech careers, finds UK report
Brussels, 12 Sep 2005 The UK's technology industry must do more to attract and retain female employees if it is to remain internationally successful, according to a new report by Intellect and the...
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Call for proposals for the eContentplus programme.
Brussels, 12 Sep 2005 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for indirect actions under the multiannual Community Programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible,...
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Call for proposals for Safer Internet plus.
Brussels, 12 Sep 2005 The European Commission has published a call for proposals under the Community Programme on promoting safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, 'Safer Internet plus...