Brussels, 16 October 2002 Philippe Busquin, the European Research Commissioner today put forward suggestions for promoting the European Research Area initiative. The communication entitled "Providing...
Brussels, 16 Oct 2002 EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin has called for the creation of a European platform on plant science through the networking of national research programmes. The...
Paris, 16 Oct 2002 Nations and private companies, spurred by the need to accelerate innovation, are shaking up their approach to research and development. That's one of the conclusions in the OECD's...
Paris, 16 Oct 2002 Universities and other public research organisations generate valuable forms of intellectual property from software and databases to genetic and other inventions that can be major...
Paris, 16 Oct 2002 SchoolSat is a trial service providing fast access to the Internet for schools in rural Ireland using leading-edge satellite technology developed by Web-Sat in Dublin and supported...
Paris, 16 Oct 2002 A Russian Soyuz launcher exploded some 20 seconds after lift-off from the Russian Plesetsk cosmodrome last night, 15 October, at 20:20 CEST. The launcher was carrying the unmanned...
Paris, 16 Oct 2002 16 October 2002 ESA's Integral has been given the green light and is all set for launch from Baikonur in Kazakhstan in the early hours of tomorrow morning. More than 34 simulations...
Brussels, 16 Oct 2002 Full text of Document 139/1/02 14 October 2002 INFORMATION NOTE From: General Secretariat No. Cion prop. 5943/02 RECH ATO 13 Subject: Council Decisions: - adopting the specific...
Brussels, 16 Oct 2002 Full text 1. SUMMARY Launched at the Lisbon European Council in March 2000, the creation of a European Research Area has become the central pillar of EU activities in the field...
Bruxelles, 15 octobre 2002 L'intitulé même de la conférence EURAGRI « Science pour la société Science avec la société » évoque une question cruciale pour l'avenir de la recherche en Europe dans un...
Lille, le 15 octobre 2002 Madame la Ministre, Mesdames et Messieurs, Pour un commissaire européen à la recherche, c'est une occasion rêvée de pouvoir s'adresser à une assemblée si diversifiée d'...
Union threatens to strike over super-university Academic staff at two London colleges intending to merge into one "super-university" threatened yesterday to block the plans with strike action....
UU pulls out of Belfast 'peaceline campus' project Ulster University has pulled out of the Springvale project to build a "peaceline campus" in north and west Belfast. It is believed that the PFI...
Brussels, 15 Oct 2002 Meeting informally for the first time on 11 and 12 October, the EU's Competitiveness Council agreed that the Council shall focus on the areas where the EU lags behind, notably,...
Brussels, 15 Oct 2002 An EU funded project is creating the foundations for improved telecoms systems through the design and application of a new software development technique. The MODA-TEL project...