Brussels, 31 July 2002 The UK has announced a 20 million GBP (nearly 32 million euro) research programme aimed at encouraging collaborative research in the pre-competitive stage between industry,...
Brussels, 31 July 2002 The European Commission is seeking the views of the public on what should be done to counteract speculative and abusive registration of domain names in the future '.eu' top...
Brussels, 31 July 2002 Some 17 countries, including seven EU Member States now have official statistics on biotechnology, almost a five-fold increase from the year 2000, it emerged at a recent OECD (...
Brussels, 31 July 2002 CORDIS, the European Commission's Research and Development Information Service, is publishing a gateway page to provide users with newly available information on the Sixth...
Paris, 31 July 2002 Earlier this month ESA’s Technology Transfer Network met with 72 representatives of 53 European and Canadian textile companies in Lille, France. The idea - to brainstorm how...
Report calls for online teaching resources Teachers and lecturers should have access to a new "College Online" offering learning resources, according to the report of the Post 16 e-Learning Strategy...
Bomb kills seven at Israeli university A bomb at a student cafeteria in Jerusalem killed seven people and injured more than 60 yesterday in the first Palestinian attack on a university during almost...
Capital funding for higher education is rising steadily to levels last seen six years ago. Funding for higher education was an estimated £381 million in 2001-02, compared with £409 million in 1995-96...
Brussels, 30 July 2002 The European Commission's Energy and Transport DG has published a call for tenders for the assessment of the effectiveness of passenger car daytime running lights (DRLs) in...
Brussels, 30 July 2002 A report by the European Commission's Enterprise DG has found that problems of trustworthiness may still be discouraging businesses from participating in e-marketplaces -...
Paris, 30 July 2002 The Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) onboard ESA's Envisat environmental satellite captured this dramatic image of Hurricane Elida off the west coast of Mexico on 25...
Paris, 30 July 2002 When packing for a trip towards another planet, there are some things, such as microorganisms, that you do not want to include in your 'luggage'. For example, what if...
Paris, 30 July 2002 Long-duration spaceflight has a significant impact on the body, with astronauts experiencing changes in their bone and muscle in particular. To meet the requirements of long-stay...
Brussels, 30 July 2002 'Biomaterial 2002', organised by the Innovation relay centre (IRC) at THATI GmbH in Erfurt, Germany and the Thüringen Society for biomatieral will take place on 24 and 25...
Brussels, 30 July 2002 The European Commission's Education and Culture DG has announced a call for tenders for the first external mid-term evaluation of the Leonardo da Vinci programme II. The...