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18 June 2008: The European
Commission has officially launched the network of European researchers
in Japan. Read
more
18 June 2008: The EUR 4 million EU-funded project
IntUBE (Intelligent Use of Buildings' Energy Information) has set its
sights on slashing the amount of energy we use in our homes and offices
by half, without jeopardising our creature comforts. Read
more
18 June 2008: G8 ministers pledge to boost low carbon
research funding. Read
more
17 June 2008: G8 ministers pledge to boost low carbon
research funding. Read
more
17 June 2008: Climate change promotes vector-borne
diseases in Europe. Read
more
17 June 2008: Researchers track down antibodies
responsible for MS. Read
more
16 June 2008: Significant progress has been made in
research collaboration since the launch of the Responsible Partnering
Initiative, a set of guidelines to aid knowledge transfer between
business, research organisations and universities and academia. Read
more
16 June 2008: The Spanish national congress of fuel
cells (CONAPPICE 2008) will take place from 24 to 26 September in the
city of Zaragoza, Spain. Read
more
13 June 2008: Can household chemicals affect your
fertility? Read
more
13 June 2008: Significant progress has been made in
research collaboration since the launch of the Responsible Partnering
Initiative, a set of guidelines to aid knowledge transfer between
business, research organisations and universities and academia. Read
more
13 June 2008: More disease outbreaks in Europe with
climate change: experts. Read more
13 June 2008: The International Space Station could
soon be relaying messages secured using quantum entanglement, if a
proposed experiment is accepted by the European Space Agency later this
year. Read
more
12 June 2008: Gender equality in scientific research
has not been achieved yet, a survey co-funded by the European
Commission suggests. Read
more
12 June 2008: Researchers from the EU-funded EuroStemCell
project have shown for the first time that mouse embryonic stem cells
are able to self-renew without the natural culture materials that
scientists have so far used to maintain them and grow stem cell lines. Read
more
12 June 2008: European researchers have developed
solutions to help weld a mishmash of different technologies, protocols
and system architectures, making it easier to run research and
education networks. Read
more
12 June 2008: The European Commission has announced
that it will double its investment in European robotics research
between 2007 and 2010. Read
more
11 June 2008: European system for cutting CO2 emissions
is working well: Lessons to be learned for US, globe. Read
more
11 June 2008: The EU's top antitrust official called
Tuesday on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent
jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary technology. Read
more
11 June 2008: Real time video to help fight forest
fires. The scientists are currently looking at how their system could
be adapted for use in unmanned airborne vehicles, as part of the
EU-funded AWARE project. Read more
11 June 2008: A new study conducted in the framework of
the EU-funded Vision Era-net has identified future innovation
governance challenges. Read more
11 June 2008: PredictAD,
a project with nearly € 3
million of funding and partners in six countries, will attempt to
develop
indicators that will diagnose Alzheimer's early. Read
more
10 June 2008: Projects tackling the current societal preoccupations
of terrorism and car pollution were the winners of this year's EUREKA
Lynx and Lillehammer awards. Read more
10 June 2008: As Slovenia
prepares to hand over the chair of EUREKA
to Portugal
on
1 July, it can do so with the confidence that it will be leaving a
lasting
legacy. Read
more
10 June 2008: Study
catalogues impact of manmade
climate change. Read
more
9
June 2008: A
five-step action plan drawn up by EU-funded researchers will help to
steer the
middle ground in a stand-off between fishermen and conservationists
over the
future of the cormorant. Read
more
9
June 2008: A
team of EU-funded researchers is drawing on the latest satellite
imaging
technology to investigate how scarce water resources are used by
farmers in
arid regions. Read
more
9 June 2008: For
the first time, a team of Dutch, German and South Korean scientists
have shown
how light can squeeze through any hole regardless of its size using
Terahertz
(THz) radiation. Read
more
6 June 2008: UK
and German scientists have revealed new information about how sex
chromosomes are regulated. They identified the enzyme responsible for
helping males make up their hormones shortage. Read
more
6 June 2008: NASA
chief urges Europe to build manned spaceship. Read more
6 June 2008: A
team of European and US
space operation engineers has won the prestigious 'International
SpaceOps Award for Outstanding Achievement'. Read
more
6 June 2008: Telescopes
from the four corners of
the earth have been successfully linked up to create a real-time
virtual
telescope, enabling astronomers from the EU-funded Express Production
Real-time
e-VLBI Service (EXPReS) project to simultaneously observe galaxies in
the
distant universe. Read
more
5 June 2008: Following its
official launch on 1 June, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has
started to accept pre-registrations of chemicals under the REACH
(Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) legislation. Read
more
5 June 2008: A
new software solution developed as part of the EU-funded SIMDAT ('Data
grids for process and product development using numerical simulation
and knowledge discovery') now gives aerospace engineers access to more
computing power.
Read more
5 June 2008: EuroGentest
already helping patients
across Europe. Read
more
4 June 2008: IMEC, AIXTRON set important step towards
low-cost GaN
power devices. Read
more
4 June 2008: EU sees security threats lurking in
printers. Read more
4 June 2008: Zoonoses,
diseases that are transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans,
are on the rise, according to the latest report of the European
Academies of Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Read
more
4 June 2008: EuroGentest
already helping patients
across Europe. Read
more
3
June 2008: Latest
Competitiveness Council brings progress for research. Read
more
3 June 2008: EU
contributes EUR 40 million to fight against infectious diseases. Read
more
3 June 2008: Platypus
study reveals strange genetic makeup. Read
more
3 June 2008: New
project to study impact of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems. Read
more
27 May 2008: Transforming
buses into mobile sensing platforms. Read more
27 May 2008: A
new way of analysing genetic variation in human populations is throwing
up a
number of surprises about our ancestry. Among other things, the new
technique
reveals a strong gene flow from northern Europe
to
eastern Siberia. Read
more
23 May 2008: Carbon
nanotubes may cause cancer, study reveals. Read
more
23 May 2008: Italy
to reverse policy and build nuclear power stations: minister. Read more
23 May 2008: Carbon
market could be worth 2 trillion euros in 2020: study. Read more
23 May 2008: Parliament
calls for greater gender parity in science. Read
more
23 May 2008: Scientists
use microbes to extend life of oilfields. Read
more
22 May 2008: Artificial
intelligence tackles data transmission from space. Read
more
22 May 2008: EU-funded
project develops soil regeneration method. Read
more
22 May 2008: UK
parliament backs hybrid embryo research. Read
more
21 May 2008: New
model helps to calculate energy output of stars. Read
more
21 May 2008:Regional
S&T workforce in plentiful supply, finds report. Read
more
20 May 2008: European
researchers identify more genes responsible for cancer. Read
more
20 May 2008: Fungus
genome opens pathways to next-generation biofuels. Read
more
20
May 2008: Dragon programme extended. Read more
19 May 2008: NATO
to give Estonia
cyber defences. Read
more
19 May 2008: Workshop
on biomolecular simulation, Barcelona,
Spain.
Read
more
19 May 2008: Biodiversity
loss costs six percent of world income: report. Read more
19 May 2008: Biofuels
must not deprive poor of food: EU official. Read more
19 May 2008: Studies
raise concern about impact of nitrogen on environment. Read
more
19 May 2008: Scientists
working on ice cores drilled in the Antarctic have obtained data on the
climate
and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations going back 800,000 years.
Read
more
19 May 2008: New
research conducted by a group of EU-funded researchers is shedding new
light on
the way blood vessels grow, overturning years of medical thought. Read
more
15 May 2008:
ICSU-TWAS-UNESCO-UNU/IAS Visiting Scientist Programme. TWAS,
the academy of sciences for the developing world – www.twas.org – is an
autonomous international organization founded in Trieste, Italy, in
1983. TWAS represents the best of science in the developing
world. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and
excellence for sustainable development in the South. Since 1986,
TWAS has been supporting scientists and institutions in developing
countries through a wide range of programmes that focus on scientific
capacity building.
The ICSU-TWAS-UNESCO-UNU/IAS Visiting Scientist Program supports visits
of internationally renowned scientists to institutions located in
developing countries, especially those located in the Least Developed
Countries (LDCs). Read more
13 May 2008: EU
says car pollution targets unworkable: report. Read more
12 May 2008: Oil
powered Norway
gradually turns into the wind. Read more
12 May 2008: Euro-Mediterranean
Centre for Climate Change Marie Curie Fellowships. Read
more
12 May 2008: The
European Commission has launched a call for proposals under the
‘energy’ theme
of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Read
more
12 May 2008: Inventors
inspired by personal experiences. Read
more
12 May 2008: Scientists
solve mystery of why arsenic works in cancer drugs. Read
more
9 May 2008: Europe
recruits astronauts for possible Moon missions. Read
more
9 May 2008: Patent
forum asks how IPRs can help solve climate problem. Read
more
9 May 2008: Call
for safer batteries answered. Read
more
9 May 2008: Towards
a European Observatory on Nanotechnologies. Read
more
8 May 2008: Wellcome
Trust Senior Research Fellowships in Basic Biomedical Science
2008/2009. Read more
8 May 2008: EU delays
ruling on GM products. Read
more
8 May 2008: EU still far
from agreeing biofuel standards: diplomats. Read more
8 May 2008: Top inventors
honoured at European Inventor of the Year. Read
more
8 May 2008: Europe creates
largest radio telescope network
8 May 2008: Vienna
and Bratislava present
joint
candidature for EIT headquarters. Read
more
6 May 2008: Free
knowledge and technology conference, Barcelona, Spain. Read
more
6 May 2008: ESA
workshop on the Marco Polo mission, Cannes, France.
Read
more
6 May 2008: Study
confirms link between birth weight, weight gain and heart
trouble. Read
more
6 May 2008: Data
protection authority to monitor EU research policy and
projects. Read
more
6 May 2008: Innovative
Medicines Initiative to give boost to Europe's
pharmaceutical
industry. Read
more
1 May 2008: Summer
workshop for young economists, Mannheim, Germany.
Read
more
1 May 2008: Spread
of Parkinson's to transplanted brain cells observed. Read
more
1 May 2008: D-day
imminent for European Chemicals Agency. Read
more
21 April 2008: Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7).
Read more
21 April 2008: Impact of climate change on marine
algae.
Read
more
21 April
2008: EU
project
to bridge emotional gap between robots and humans. Read
more
18 April 2008:Ministers
attending an informal meeting of the Competitiveness Council have
launched a new process to ensure coherency and synergy between research
policies and activities across the European Union. Read
more
18 April 2008:'There
can be no quality without equality.' This is one of the key messages
from a recent report on the presence (or lack of it) of women in
scientific decision-making bodies.
Read more
18 April 2008: Hitachi,
EON and Electrabel join forces to test carbon capture. Read more
17 April 2008: Fusion for Energy (F4E), the agency
responsible for Europe's contribution to the international experimental
thermonuclear reactor (ITER), is expected to unlock new business
opportunities for industry with the launch of its first ever
procurement. Read
more
17 April 2008: EU
project develops smart materials
for noise reduction. Read
more
17 April 2008: Impact of
climate change on marine
algae. Read more
16 April 2008: EU-funded scientists have developed a
platform which allows users to stroll freely through virtual worlds. Read
more
16 April 2008: Global
conference on GMO analysis, Como, Italy. Read
more
16 April 2008: New DNA
sequencing strategy could be
vital during disease outbreak. Read
more
15 April 2008: European Research Area Board members appointed. Read
more
15 April 2008: Radiation
Risks For Astronauts On A Mission
To Mars. Read
more
15 April 2008: New
DNA sequencing strategy could be vital during disease outbreak. Read
more
15 April 2008: New
Commission Recommendation to help
harness knowledge for Europe. Read
more
14 April 2008: Norway
to award nanotech 'Nobel prize'. Read more
14 April 2008: New Commission Recommendation to help
harness knowledge for Europe. Read more .
14 April 2008: New
EU project to speed up diagnosis of coeliac disease. Read
more
14 April 2008: EU
project shows eating right does the body good. Read
more
14 April 2008: Solar
Impulse aircraft demonstrates
clean mobility. Read
more
11 April 2008: ESA to recruit
new European astronauts.
Read more
10 April 2008: First
European sighting of Far Eastern 'stink bug' in Switzerland. Read more
10 April
2008: The
largest synthesized telescope in Europe doubles its surface. Read more
10 April
2008: EU
Report Urges Search Data Deletion. Read more
10 April 2008: Kidney cancer deaths show overall decrease
in Europe. Read more
10 April 2008: Galileo Masters competition enters new
round. Read more
10 April 2008: EU and India
to deepen biotech research ties. Read more
9 April 2008: Tsunami fears
for Mediterranean realistic. Read
more
9 April 2008: Scientists
prove mutation linked to leukaemia. Read
more
9 April 2008: Commemorating
30 years of European
human space flight. Read
more
8 April 2008: New benefits of vegan diet revealed. Read more
8 April 2008: Second
satellite to be launched for EU Galileo satnav
project. Read more
8 April 2008: Potocnik
calls for process to modernise universities
to begin. Read more
8 April 2008: New
EU project to boost online security. Read
more
7 April 2008: Millions of
people around the world are addicted to smoking, and in Europe
alone more than 1.2 million people a year die as a result of
smoking-related diseases. Read
more
7 April 2008: Examples
of eco-friendly measures in Swedish town of Vaexjoe.
Read more
7 April 2008: Fossilised
human faeces found in an Oregon
cave are forcing archaeologists to rethink the timing of the arrival of
the
first humans in the Americas.
Read
more
3 April 2008: Heat From Data Center to
Warm a Pool. Read more
3 April 2008: Project
outlines approach to the integration of
female immigrant workers. Read more
3 April 2008: MEPs
vote on scientific data on climate change. Read
more
3 April 2008: Protein discovery sheds
light on autoimmune diseases. Read
more
3 April 2008: Scientists discover more
genes linked to diabetes. Read
more
2 April 2008: Euro-India ICT information day, Bangalore, India.
Read more
2 April 2008: 2009
to be European Year of Creativity and Innovation. Read
more
2
April 2008: New tool to protect Africa's
wildlife. Read
more
2 April 2008: Scientists
discover more genes linked
to diabetes. Read
more
31 March 2008: The EU
supports research and innovation activities through a range of
programmes, including the Seventh Framework Programme for Research
(FP7), the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) and
Structural Funds. Read
more
31 March 2008: Joint
action to monitor impact of climate change in ACP countries. Read
more
31 March 2008: Jacques Tits of
the Collège de France and the American John Griggs Thompson have
been jointly awarded the 2008 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious
prizes in mathematics, 'for their profound achievements in algebra and
in particular for shaping modern group theory'. Read
more
31 March 2008: Austrian
glaciers shrink the most in
five years. Read
more
28 March 2008: Mix and match: new EU guide to
encourage combining research funding sources. Read more
27 March 2008: Marie Curie
researcher investigates
role of innate immune system in Multiple Sclerosis. Read
more
26 March 2008: EU project aims at ultimate in miniaturisation:
molecular machines. Read
more
26 March 2008: The
new EU-funded HeartCycle project sets out to create innovative
telemonitoring solutions. Launched on 1 March, it is one of the largest
biomedical and healthcare research projects in the EU.
Read more
26 March 2008: Genetic
blood disorder proves resistant to malaria. Read
more
26 March 2008: EU-funded
researchers have developed
a genetic tool which allows rice breeders to block the action of genes
which
confer unwanted traits. Read
more
20 March 2008: A new, EU-funded project will investigate membrane
proteins with the aim of finding new treatments for a range of
diseases. Read
more
20 March 2008: More
than 50,000 European homes and
offices added a high-speed broadband Internet connection every day last
year,
according to the European Commission. Read more
19
March 2008: After
the successful pilot Call of 2007, the
European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (
ETSF) is
now publishing on its website its new Call for Proposals.
Read
more
19 March 2008: European
membrane expertise to focus on new treatments for human diseases. Read more
19 March 2008: EU-funded
scientists have identified a network of 37 genes that respond to lower
cholesterol levels to prevent the accumulation of the plaques in our
arteries that cause heart attacks and strokes. Read
more
19 March 2008: After nearly one
and a half years of research and development, the EU-funded METHAPU
('Validation of renewable methanol based auxiliary power systems for
commercial vessels') project is about to start trials on a prototype of
a methanol-based solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) unit. Read
more
19 March 2008: The
2008 DEISA (Distributed European
Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) symposium will take
place on 28
and 29 April in Edinburgh, UK.
Read
more
14 March 2008: In accordance with Australia’s
Associate Membership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
(EMBL), up to 2 fully funded research groups are able to be located at
an EMBL site in Europe for a maximum period of
5 years. Read
more
14 March 2008: Human
and financial burden of heart disease revealed. Read
more
14 March 2008: The
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will open for
business by the summer following the European Parliament's approval of
the Council's common position on its establishment. Read
more
14 March 2008: 'You
represent the best that Europe
has to offer. We are proud of you,' European Research Commissioner
Janez
Potocnik told the winners of the 2007 European Science Awards at the
awards
ceremony in Brussels on 12
March. Read
more
14 March 2008: There is a
need to improve the
efficiency of funding and increase funding levels for existing and
future
research infrastructures in Europe. Read
more
13 March 2008: Reports from Sweden
and Norway
show high levels of sucralose in wastewater effluent and surface
waters. Read
more
13 March 2008: The
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will open for
business by the summer following the European Parliament's approval of
the Council's common position on its establishment. Read
more
13 March 2008: The
European Commission has signalled its support for the establishment of
a European Migration Policy Centre (EMPC). Read
more
13 March 2008: EU
R&D spending remains unchanged.
Read
more
13 March 2008: The European
Commission's Directorate
General for Research has issued a call for tenders for an analysis of
the
evolution of the costs of research - trends, drivers and impacts. Read
more
13 March 2008: The
kick-off meeting of the new EU-funded MetaHIT ('Metagenomics of the
human
intestinal tract') project will be held in Jouy-en-Josas,
France, on 11
April. Read
more
12 March 2008: Research and development (R&D) spending in Europe
has remained unchanged for the last three years, according to the
latest figures released from Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the
European Communities. Read
more
12 March 2008: On
the icy Norwegian island of Svalbard
an underground vault has been blasted out of the permafrost to store
seed samples from around the world. This international collaboration
between scientists and governments is home to precious genetic
resources that may help us adapt food supply to climate change. Read
more
12 March 2008: A
team of researchers has developed a device which promises 100 times
faster broadband speeds and 75% cheaper costs. Read
more
12 March 2008: The
fourth annual conference of the EU-funded EADGENE project, will be held
in Edinburgh, UK,
from 9 to 12 June. The theme of the event is 'animal disease genomics:
opportunities and applications'. Read
more
12 March 2008: The
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has issued a
call for tenders on enteric pathogens - microbiological support for
surveillance at the EU level. Read
more
12 March 2008: Dutch ovarian
cancer patients who were treated at a semispecialized or specialized
hospital survived longer than those treated at a general hospital. Read more
12 March 2008: One
of the great ongoing challenges
of astrophysics, to find out how stars evolve and die, is to be tackled
in an
ambitious European research programme. Read more
11 March 2008: New research has shed light on the
way in which people cooperate for the common good, and what happens
when they fail to.
Read more
11 March 2008: Tropical
forests have not modified their functioning in response to climate
change, and continue to be major carbon sinks. Read
more
11 March 2008: New
malaria map reveals extent of disease burden. Read
more
11 March 2008: The
European Commission's Directorate General for Information Society and
Media has issued a call for tenders for a feasibility study on the
interconnection of south and eastern African research networks to
GÉANT. Read
more
11 March 2008: An
information day on the ARTEMIS
(embedded computer systems) and ENIAC (nano-electronics) JTIs (Joint
Technology
Initiatives) will be held in Brussels,
Belgium,
on 4 April. Read
more
10 March 2008: The hormone oestrogen can cause
genes in breast
cancer cells to be switched on and off more rapidly than had been
previously assumed, European researchers have found. Read
more
10 March 2008: Although
identical twins may look the same to the human eye, new research has
discovered that identical twins may in fact not be 100% genetically
identical. Read
more
10 March 2008: A
new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project is
tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Read
more
10 March 2008: A conference
on the 'Internet of Things' will take place from 26 to 28 March in Zurich,
Switzerland. The
conference brings leading researchers and practitioners from both
academia and industry together to facilitate sharing of applications,
research results and knowledge. Read
more
10 March 2008: A
conference on nuclear engineering (NESTet 2008) will take place from 4
to 8 May in Budapest, Hungary.
Hosted by the European Nuclear Society, the conference aims to
facilitate an exchange of information, collaboration and the sharing of
best practices in nuclear education and training in engineering science
and technology. Read
more
10 March 2008: An
uncrewed Ariane rocket
successfully put a cargo vessel into orbit on Sunday in Europe's
first mission to carry supplies to the International Space Station
(ISS). Read
more
10 March 2008: The European
Space Agency on Sunday
carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to
rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station. Read more
7
March 2008:
Symposium on nutrition and health from pregnancy to adolescence. Read
more
7 March 2008: EU warned of
climate-induced polar security threat. Read
more
6
March 2008:
SENIOR project initiates ethical debate on ICT for the elderly. Read
more
5
March 2008:
New project to deliver next generation electronic chips. Read
more
5
March 2008:
A conference and exhibition on 'infocommunication in the service of
everyday
life' called eVITA 2008 will be held in Budapest,
Hungary on 3 to 5
April. Read
more
5
March 2008:
A conference entitled 'Security research: technology solutions to
enhance
systems interoperability' will take place in Ankara,
Turkey, on 17 to
18
April. Read
more
5
March 2008:
The Institute for Human Sciences, Austria & ERSTE Foundation
jointly invite
academics to translate important works in the Humanities, Social
Sciences and
in the field of Cultural Studies. Read
more
4
March 2008:
EU environment ministers have given their broad backing for proposals
to cut
CO2 levels by 20% by 2020. Read more
4
March 2008:
Renault joins Transport Research Arena 2008 to solve road transport
paradox. Read
more
4
March 2008:
EU project designs world's cleanest ship. Read
more
4
March 2008:
Ski tourism is raising stress levels among threatened European bird,
the capercaillie,
which could harm the birds’ fitness and ability to breed successfully,
ecologists have found. Read
more
3
March 2008:
The world's highest-speed computer network, Europe's
GEANT, is linking up with others worldwide to create a global research
network,
the European Commission announced. Read more
3
March 2008:
EU looks into future of greener shipping. Read
more
3
March 2008:
The international trade fair CEP CLEAN ENERGY POWER
will host
a European partnering event in the area of energy efficient
construction and
renovation on 8 March. Read
more
29 February 2008: The Innovating Regions in Europe
(IRE) Network will be holding a training session on regional innovation
policy
in
Madrid, Spain,
from 16 to 18 April.
Read
more
29 February 2008: The EU
should invest more in
research, facilitate the free movement of knowledge and strengthen its
innovation system, ministers meeting at the EU's Competitiveness
Council agreed
on 25 February. Read
more
29 February 2008: The European
Commission is to spend
€3bn (£2.3bn) on nanoelectronics research and €2.5bn
(£1.9bn) on embedded
computer systems over the next 10 years. Read
more
29 February 2008: A workshop on
writing successful proposals for Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
projects
will take place in Rome, Italy, on 27 and 28 March. Read
more
29 February 2008: Steel
industry boosts research into
cleaner technologies. Read
more
29 February 2008: Aquaculture
technology transfer workshop, Italy. Read
more
29 February 2008: First
European lung cancer conference
in Geneva, Switzerland.
Read
more
27 February 2008: The European
Commission has launched
two new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) designed to boost Europe's
competitiveness in the fields of nanoelectronics and embedded computer
systems.
Read
more
27 February 2008: Tender:
analysing perspectives for
EU-US cooperation on space-related applications and services. Read
more
27 February 2008: Energy
strategy to combat climate
change proposed. Read
more
27 February 2008: EU project
calls for swift
introduction of hydrogen energy into transport sector. Read
more
27 February 2008: European
City of Science: call for
projects.
Read
more
26 February 2008: The European
Commission has launched
two new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) designed to boost Europe's
competitiveness in the fields of nanoelectronics and embedded computer
systems.
Read
more
25 February 2008: Members of
the European Parliament's
Committee on External Relations call for increased involvement by
African
scientists in R&D. Read
more
25 February 2008: Three
European higher education
organisations have been entrusted with establishing an EU-Asia Higher
Education
Platform. Read
more
25 February 2008: Catching-up
in supercomputing: must
be done at European level, says expert. Read
more
22 February 2008: Giving
e-networks a boost. Read
more
22 February 2008: Launch event
of new project on ICTs
and ageing. Read
more
22 February 2008: The European
Science Foundation (ESF)
and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) are
organising a
frontier science conference for young researchers in the areas of
cognitive
science and robotics from 9 to 15 March in Kanagawa,
Japan. Read
more
22 February 2008: The European
Commission is set to
inject a further EUR 12 million into an initiative which provides
scientists in
the Asia-Pacific region with high speed internet access to enable their
participation in international research projects. Read
more
20 February 2008: A training
course on developmental
and stem cell biology, entitled 'Strategies in directed differentiation
of
embryonic stem cells into mature cell types for therapy' will be held
in Gentofte, Denmark,
from 28 to 30
May. Read
more
20 February 2008:
International partnership strengthens
malaria research. Read
more
19 February 2008: New
knowledge base for European Grid
Initiatives online. Read
more
19 February 2008: European
Union farm ministers fell
short of a consensus agreement on Monday to allow imports of five
genetically
modified (GMO) products. Read
more
19 February
2008: Homelessness
is one of the key societal problems
facing the countries of the European Union. This issue is a major
challenge for
the EU and a new Europe-wide project aims to improve monitoring and
policies on
this issue. Read
more
18 February 2008: The 'Humanities in the European
Research Area' (HERA) initiative is holding a matchmaking event in Paris, France,
on 19 April. Read more
18 February 2008: Increased
life expectancy may mean lower fertility. Read more
18 February 2008: A new one-stop-shop
with information on projects funded the EU's Sixth Framework Programme
(FP6) is
now available on CORDIS. Read
more
18 February 2008: Touch but don't
look: EU project to advance touch technology. Read
more
14 February 2008: The polar
research boat Tara
is on its way home after spending a year and a half encased in the
Arctic sea
ice. During that time the ship's crew has collected vast amounts of
data on the
Arctic environment for the EU-funded DAMOCLES ('Developing Arctic
modelling and
observing capabilities for long-term environmental studies') project. Read
more
14 February 2008: The European
GNSS (Global Navigation
Satellite System) Supervisory Authority has issued a call for tenders
for a
study on Galileo mission evolution. Read
more
14 February 2008: The European
GNSS Supervisory
Authority has issued a call for tenders for a study on Galileo service
consolidation. Read
more
14 February 2008: The European
Joint Conferences on
Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) will be held from 29 March to 6
April
in Budapest, Hungary,
where internationally renowned researchers will talk about current
issues in
software science. Read
more
13 February 2008: In the
framework of the EU-funded
E-Rare rare diseases programme, scientists have now started to search
for
hereditary causes of a particular form of angiooedema. Read
more
13 February 2008: Italy's
2005 smoking ban has led to a sharp fall in heart attacks, researchers
reported
on Monday in a finding they said shows that such laws really do improve
public
health. Read
more
13 February 2008: Satellite
data to deliver
'state-of-the-art' air quality information in Europe.
Read
more
13 February 2008: An
information day on the 'Marie
Curie Actions' themes of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will
take place
in Udine, Italy,
on 14 February. Read
more
12 February 2008: A team of
researchers recently sought
to uncover the genetic diversity of Europeans who immigrated to the United
States. Their work, which provides the
first
genetic dissection of the population structure, was published in the
Open
Access journal PLoS Genetics in January. Read
more
12 February 2008: The European
Commission has adopted a
code of conduct for responsible research in the relatively new fields
of
nanosciences and nanotechnologies (N&N). Read
more
12 February 2008: A conference
on 'urban green spaces -
a key for sustainable cities' will be held in Sofia,
Bulgaria, on 17
and 18
April. Read
more
11 February 2008: A genetic defect in
the liver is behind an iron overload disorder
which affects one in 300 people, German researchers have discovered.
The work,
which was partly funded by the EU, is published in the journal Cell
Metabolism.
Read
more
11 February 2008: With a
special kick-off meeting in Gothenburg,
Sweden, the
European
Network of Excellence HiPEAC (High-Performance and Embedded
Architecture and
Compilation) has now been launched. The network will coordinate nine
research
clusters that will look into on-chip multi-cores technology and
customisation,
leading to heterogeneous multi-core systems. Read
more
11 February 2008: The most
established names in telecoms,
Internet and media will come together next week in Barcelona
for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest events for
the mobile
phone industry. Read
more
11 February 2008: The
EU-funded TEAM research project
will be holding a workshop entitled 'Agile Knowledge Sharing for
Distributed
Software Teams' as part of the Software Engineering 08 conference on 19
February in Munich, Germany.
Read
more
11 February 2008: European
Commission adopts Code of
Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies Research. Read
more
11 February 2008: From the Lab to Europe’s Waterways: The World's Cleanest Ship ‘Victoria’
Visits Brussels. Read
more
11 February 2008: European Science and
Research Commissioner will make his first official visit to Mexico
from 9 to 12 February. While there he will meet science and technology
ministers from 6 Central American Countries, visit Mexican research
institutions and take part in the launch event of a programme designed
to boost
scientific co-operation between the EU and Mexico.
Read more
8
February 2008:
The wheels of the European Institute of
Innovation and
Technology (EIT) were set in motion this week. Read
more
8
February 2008:
Stakeholders will discuss 'The future of the internet -
perspectives
emerging from R&D [research and development] in Europe'
from 31 March to 1 April in Bled, Slovenia.
Read
more
8
February 2008:
The EU-funded Scanbalt metaregion is organising a
science-to-business
partnering event in the Estonian embassy in Stockholm,
Sweden, on 19
February,
in the framework of its Boost Biosystems project. Read
more
7 February 2008: Much less widely known than the
dangerous consequences of iron deficiencies is the fact that too much
iron can
also cause problems. The exact origin of the genetic iron overload
disorder
hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) has remained elusive. In a joint
effort, researchers
from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the
University of
Heidelberg, Germany, have now discovered that HH is a liver disease.
They
report in the current issue of Cell Metabolism that the disorder
develops when
a crucial gene is lacking in liver cells. Read
more
7 February 2008: NASA
managers on Tuesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for lift-off in two
days on
a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the
International Space Station. Read
more
7 February 2008: 'Today is a great day,' said European
Science Commissioner Janez Potocnik at the launch forum of the 'Clean
Sky'
Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) that aims to put Europe at the cutting edge
of greener aircraft design.
Read more
5
February 2008:
The branch of medicine that provides life or organ support systems
for
patients who are critically ill is known as intensive care medicine.
This care
is given to patients whose chances for survival are strong and whose
conditions
are potentially reversible. However, sometimes infections surface in
the
intensive care units (ICUs) of hospitals, causing great distress for
patients
and their loved ones. Read
more
5 February 2008: With
traffic on the Internet growing by nearly 100% every 18 months, a new
EU-funded
project is working on developing an improved traffic management system
that can
meet users' increasing demand for music, films and photos. Read
more
5
February 2008:
The second European Road Transport Research Arena (TRA) conference
will be
held in Ljubljana, Slovenia,
from 21 to 24 April 2008.
Read
more
5
February 2008:
The European Commission's Directorate General for Research has
extended the
deadline for its call for tenders for a study on the critical mass of
public
research and development (R&D) programmes - a potential driver of
joint
programming. Read
more
4
February 2007:
Almost since the beginning of human evolution, people have been
searching
for ways to preserve food, from smoking meat to the invention of the
humble tin
can. These innovations and others like them have revolutionised the way
people
eat. With current technological advancements, food scientists are still
looking
at ways to revolutionise the way we store our food. Read
more
4 February 2007: SUCCESS
(Searching Unprecedented Cooperations on Energy and Climate to Ensure
Sustainability) and GAST (Green and Safe Road Transportation) are the
names of
two EU-funded pilot projects that are intended to pave the way for the
European
Institute of Technology (EIT). Both newly-launched initiatives are
coordinated
by the Institute of Technology Karlsruhe (KIT), Germany.
Read
more
4 February 2007: The
Israeli systems biologist Naama Barkai has been named as the first ever
winner
of the FEBS/EMBO Women in Science award, which the Federation of
European
Biochemical Societies and European Molecular Biology Organisation
launched in
2007. Read
more
4
February 2007:
Whether a person is an early or a late riser is encoded in the
genes of his
or her skin cells. Researchers on the EU-funded EUCLOCK (Entrainment of
the
circadian clock) project have now found that an analysis of these cells
can
reveal the person's chronotype. Read
more
1 Feburary 2008:The
European University Association will be holding a conference entitled
'Towards
Financially Sustainable European Higher Education Institutions' on 7
and 8 February
in Brussels, Belgium.
Read
more
1 Feburary 2008:The
European Space Agency (ESA) will be holding an Investment Forum at the
European
Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands,
on 14 and 15 April. Read
more
1 Feburary 2008:EU-funded
scientists have used a prototype of a 'Virtual Physiological Human'
(VPH) to
simulate the efficacy of an HIV drug in blocking a key protein used by
the
virus. Read
more
31 January 2008: Reducing emissions in all aspects of life is taking
priority for many countries, especially EU Member States. The EU-funded
'Multi-core execution of hard real-time applications supporting
analysability' (MERASA) project is tackling this issue head on. Read
more
31 January 2008: Even
as the debate on the advantages
and disadvantages of nuclear power rages on in many countries, about 30
new
nuclear power plants are being built around the world, including in Europe.
Some countries such as Germany
or Sweden
are
committed to a nuclear phase-out, but are their commitments definite? Read
more
31 January 2008: 'If
there is one thing we need to promote
innovation in Europe, it is precisely this: consistency and coherence,'
European Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik told
delegates at the
International Conference on Innovation Policy Strategy in Helsinki,
Finland, on
29 January. Read
more
30 January 2008: A team of European researchers has developed an
innovative traffic control system to increase airport safety even in
the worst weather conditions. Read
more
30 January 2008: Light
reflected from planets is polarised. This basic property has enabled
scientists to observe exoplanets (also called extra-solar), which are
found outside the realm of our own solar system. Read
more
30 January 2008: EU-funded
researchers have shed new
light on the vast numbers of exotic species which have arrived and
settled in Europe.
Since 2005, members of the DAISIE (Delivering alien invasive species
inventories in Europe) project have been putting together an inventory
which
provides the first ever pan-European overview of over 10,000 non-native
animals, fish, birds, plants, insects and other species living in our
midst. Read
more
29 January 2008: Montenegro
has signed up to the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), thereby
giving its
researchers the opportunity to participate in all calls for proposals
and
compete for funding on an equal footing with scientists from across
Europe. Read
more
29 January 2008: The
EU's Seventh Framework (FP7), now one year into its seven-year life
span, is a
'kind of transition programme', taking Europe's research community in
the
direction of the new instruments that were introduced last year, said
EU
Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik in an interview with
CORDIS
News.
Read more
29 January 2008: Promising
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe are set to gain
from the
new Eurostars funding programme, which is dedicated to helping them
quickly
develop and market new products and services, speakers at a
mini-hearing on the
Eurostars programme told MEPs on 24 January. Read
more
28 January 2008: EU-US
ATLANTIS Programme Call for
proposals 2008. Read
more
25 January 2008: A home access network capable of
delivering high bandwidth services and content at transmission speeds
of one gigabit per second could soon become a reality thanks to a newly
launched European research project. Read more
25 January 2008: The Celtic Initiative, a EUREKA cluster, will be holding its third official
event from 27 to 28 February in Helsinki, Finland. Read more
25
January 2008:
From cod liver oil to Omega 3 in salmon, the health benefits of
eating fish have long been promoted, and still are by modern doctors.
Eager to further propagate these 'fishy' benefits, the EU has been
providing funding to research projects investigating the benefits of
fish and seafood in the diet. Read more
25 January 2008: The European Commission has adopted an
ambitious package of proposals to help the EU meet its commitments on
climate change and address energy security issues. Read more
25 January 2008: The
Rubicon programme is directed at
promising young postdoctoral researchers who are still at the start of
their
careers but whose academic strengths give them the potential to become
established figures in the Dutch research world. The Rubicon programme
also
offers talented researchers from abroad the opportunity to obtain
grants to
spend one year conducting research in the Netherlands.
Proposals will be assessed on the basis of the quality of the
applicant, the
research proposal and the host institution. The Rubicon programme is
open to
all scientific disciplines. Read
more
25 January 2008: A conference
on paediatric drug
development will be held in Genoa, Italy,
from 29 May to 1 June. Read
more
24 January 2008: Plans which
would make Europe
a world leader in tackling climate change and renewable energy policy
were
released by the European Commission on Wednesday. Read
more
23 January 2008: The vaccine against the sexually transmitted virus
that causes the most cases of cervical cancer is cost-effective and
should be given to adolescent girls before they start having sex. Read
more
23 January 2008: Creating a
catalogue of genetic variation and its impact on our health is the goal
of the EU-funded GEN2PHEN (Genotype-to-phenotype databases: a holistic
solution) project, which has just got underway under the Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7). Read
more
23 January 2008: An EU-funded
Network of Excellence (NoE) has recently launched an online
questionnaire to find out how 10,000 people in different countries
around the world behave while in the sun. They survey also probes their
attitudes to tanning and skin cancer. Read
more
23 January 2008: Finnish and
Canadian researchers are joining forces in order to study the
complications caused by type 1 and type 2 diabetes. For instance, the
scientists will look into cardiovascular complications such as heart
attacks, which kill as many as 70% to 80% of diabetics. Read
more
23 January 2008: MEPs
have called on the European
Commission and Member States
to take action to boost the participation of women in the science and
technology (S&T) sector. Read
more
23 January 2008: The Austrian
Society for
Semiconductor Physics and Technology is organising an international
winter
school on new developments in solid state physics, to take place from
18 to 22
February in Bad Hofgastein, Austria.
Read
more
23 January 2008: The
European Union's plan for tackling climate change calls for imposing
emissions
cuts on member states, building more windmills and making it costlier
for major
polluters, according to documents to be unveiled Wednesday. Read more
22 January 2008: The EU's Joint Research Centre
(JRC) has published a million sentences translated into 22 official EU
languages in a bid to help the development of computer-assisted
translation technologies and software. Read
more
22 January 2008: European researchers have developed a way of producing
extremely detailed x-ray images using conventional imaging equipment
such as that found in hospitals and airports. Read
more
22 January 2008: With the signing of the prime contract on 18 January, Europe's first
mission to Mercury, BepiColombo, has officially entered its industrial
development phase. Astrium, a subsidiary of the European Aeronautic
Defence and Space Company (EADS), will be in charge of designing and
building the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Transfer
Module for the mission that is due to launch in August 2013. Read
more
22 January 2008: The European Network of Environmental Research
Organisations (ENERO) will be holding a conference on interactions
between atmospheric pollution and climate at the regional scale in Brussels, Belgium on 14 February. Read
more
22 January 2008: The European
Commission's Directorate General for Research has extended the
deadlines for
requesting and submitting tender documents for its call for tenders
regarding
the She Figures 2009. Read
more
16 January 2008: In order to
provide the EU's citizens with prosperity, a sound environment and a
fair society, Europe has to become the most
dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, EU Science and Research
Commissioner Janez Potocnik told participants at the first Marie Curie
Partnerships and Pathways conference for Industry and Academia, on 14
January. Read
more
16 January 2008: A conference
on the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for research and technological
development (FP7) will take place in Barcelona,
Spain, on 29
January. Read
more
16 January 2008: An international
team of scientists under the aegis of the Integrated Infrastructures
Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy (NMI3) has
discovered a new type of interaction between a magnetic field and
electrons on the inside of a superconductor. Read
more
16 January 2008: The European
Robotics Research Network (EURON) is organising the second European
Robotics Symposium (EUROS), to take place from 26 to 27 March in Prague,
the Czech Republic.
Read
more
16 January 2008: The
European Commission has adopted a proposal revising the Novel Foods
Regulation so that new and innovative foods have better access to the
EU market, while consumer protection is guaranteed. 'Novel foods'
include those which are produced using new techniques and technologies,
and those that have no history of consumption within the EU, but have
been consumed elsewhere. Read
more
16 January 2008: A
workshop on global change and
sustainable development in mountain regions will be held in Innsbruck,
Austria, from 7 to
9
April. Read
more
16 January 2008: An
information day on the environment
and climate change will take place in Ferrara,
Italy,
on 16 January. Read
more
14 January 2008: Meat and milk from cloned animals is probably safe for
humans, the European Union's food safety agency said in a preliminary
report released Friday. The report, by the European Food Safety
Authority, seems likely to fuel new debate over whether the EU should
allow cloned animals to enter the food chain. Read more
14 January 2008: A
group of the world's leading marine scientists has cautioned against
selling carbon credits from ocean iron fertilisation. Writing in the
journal Science, they argue that the efficacy of the technique as a
means of removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere remains
unproven, and that too little is known about its wider environmental
impacts. They call for more research to answer these questions. Read
more
14 January 2008: European
Cosmologists may have shed new light on one of astronomy's greatest
mysteries: how to measure dark energy. Read
more
14 January 2008: The
Mediterranean school on mesoscale meteorology (MSMM) will be held in Alghero,
Italy, from 26 to
30 May. Read
more
14 January 2008: An
information day on the Intelligent Energy Europe programme will take
place in Brussels, Belgium,
on 31 January. Read
more
14 January 2008: The
Romanian National Authority for
Scientific Research (ANCS) and the Romanian Office for Science and
Technology
(ROST) in Brussels are
organising a
seminar on science and technology (S&T) cooperation between the EU
and the
Western Balkan countries, to take place on 17 January in Brussels,
Belgium. Read
more
10 January 2008: The European Commission has released details of the
first security projects to be financed under the Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7). Read
more
10 January 2008: Two
EU-funded projects have been pushing the limits of chip
miniaturisation, trying to make complementary metal-oxide semiconductor
chips (CMOS) even smaller than they already are. While the NanoCMOS
project, which was completed in 2006, helped develop 45 nanometre (nm)
node semiconductors, its follow-up project NANOPULL is aiming at 32nm
and ultimately 22nm features. Read
more
10 January 2008: A
European study has found that increased blood levels of vitamin C may
reduce the risk of having a stroke by 42%. Read
more
10 January 2008: Bridging
the gaps between the three
sides of the knowledge triangle (research, education and innovation) is
the
goal of the EU-funded BRIDGE
('Bridging biomaterials research excellence between industry and
academia
across Europe') project, which is just getting
underway.
