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End in sight for London Met contract dispute One of the longest-running industrial disputes in a UK university could be coming to an end with a tentative agreement between London Metropolitan...
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Michael Mason Prize
Deadline: 14/10/2005
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Progress report hails 'good start' made in UK's ten-year science investment framework
Brussels, 25 Jul 2005 The UK government has published the first annual progress report on implementation of its ten-year science and innovation investment framework, concluding that a solid start has...
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Technology demonstration study for unmanned aerial vehicles
Brussels, 25 Jul 2005 The European Defence Agency has published a call for tenders for a technology demonstration study on digital line of sight (LOS) and beyond line of sight (BLOS) data links for...
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Call for technology demonstration study on sense-and-avoid technologies
Brussels, 25 Jul 2005 The European Defence Agency has published a call for tenders for a technology demonstration study on sense-and-avoid technologies for long endurance unmanned air vehicles. The...
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Council and Commission Decision on the conclusion of the Scientific and Technological Cooperation Agreement with Switzerland (link)
Brussels, 25 Jul 2005 Proposal for a DECISION OF THE COUNCIL AND OF THE COMMISSION on the conclusion on behalf of the European Community and the European Atomic Energy Community of the Agreement on...
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Reports from the UK Parliament Commiteee on Science and Technology: Government Response on Science Provision in English Universities, and Government Response on Forensic Science (links)
London, 25 Jul 2005 Strategic Science Provision in English Universities: Government Response to the Committee's Eighth Report of Session 2004-05 Report Forensic Science on Trial: Government Response...
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Today's news
Ministers reject science committee report The government today rejected several key recommendations made by MPs on how to prevent science department closures and encourage more students to enter the...
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European Security Research Advisory Board set up (OJ link)
Brussels, 22 July 2005 Commission decision of 22 April 2005 establishing the European Security Research Advisory Board (OJ L191/70 22.7.2005). Full text (1) In 2003, the Commission set up a Group of...
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Testing human brain cells in non-human primates: the debate
Brussels, 22 Jul 2005 A group of scientists and ethicists has sounded a note of caution concerning experiments involving the placing of brain stem cells from humans in big apes and monkeys,...
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Embryonic stem cell public research starts in Spain; therapeutic cloning expected to follow suit
Brussels, 22 Jul 2005 Barcelona's Research Regenerative Medicine Centre (CIMRB) has started to unfreeze the first embryos from a bank that will provide the cells necessary to generate embryonic stem...
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Descartes nominees shortlisted for €1.15 million in prize money
Brussels, 22 Jul 2005 The shortlist for this year's edition of the EU's prestigious scientific award, the Descartes Prize, has been announced. With collaborative projects investigating a range of...
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EuroNanoForum 2005: European nanotechnology research shapes the future of healthcare -- Edinburgh, Scotland, 5-7 September
Brussels, 22 Jul 2005 Nanotechnology and the health of the European Citizen in 2020 Special media programme on new developments in European nanotechnology research and the future of healthcare on the...
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Commission begins review of water management projects
Brussels, 22 Jul 2005 A distinguished panel of international experts has begun a major review of completed EU research projects addressing integrated water resources management (IWRM). The review is...
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Information event on FP7, Stuttgart
Brussels, 22 Jul 2005 The Ministries of Economic Affairs and Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg and the Seinbeis-Europa-Zentrum are organising an information day on the EU's...