Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Responding to the Five-...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The European Commission has granted clearance under the EU Merger Regulation to the acquisition of sole control of Leica Microsystmes AG (Leica MS) of Germany by Danaher...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The controversy in the UK over whether to make research papers available on the Internet free of charge has heated up over the summer, following an announcement by the UK...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 Scientists from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) have unveiled a breakthrough in cancer research. The researchers discovered the function of a...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 For another year, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been tracking Antarctic ozone hole growth. This year's hole is large for this time of year, based on results from the last...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The NEST-IDEA project, funded by the European Commission under its New and Emerging Science and Technology (NEST) programme of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), has launched...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The conference 'Towards a European Research Area', will take place in Speyer, Germany, from 19 to 21 October. The German Research Institute for Public Administration is devoting...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The European University Association conference, 'Research in European Universities: Strategies and Funding', will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, from 20 to 22 October. The...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 As a follow up to some local and regional government workshops that took place earlier this year across Europe, the European Regional Information Society Association (eris@) and...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The European Space Agency (ESA) is contributing to Hurricane Katrina alert and rescue efforts in the US, providing images and data captured by its satellites. The International...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 Researchers from Austria and Slovenia have created new materials and coatings that will extend the life of synthetic vascular grafts from months to years. The results of the...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The Workshop: 'Sea Level Variations: Towards an Operational European Sea Level Service' will take place in Split, Croatia, from 5 to 6 October. Organised by European Sea Level...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The 11th ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN will take place in Berlin, Germany, from 30 November to 2 December. This international e-learning event, supported by the European Commission's...
Brussels, 31 Aug 2005 The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published a call for tenders for the simulation of research and development investment scenarios and calibration of the...