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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
5 May 2008: Baltic sea
ice cover hits an all-time low: meteorologists. Read more
5 May 2008: IT
gurus launch software cleanup of Estonia.
Read more
11 April 2008: ESA to recruit
new European astronauts.
Read more
10 April 2008: Kidney cancer deaths show overall
decrease in Europe. Read more
10 April 2008: The
largest synthesized telescope in Europe doubles its surface. Read
more
10 April 2008: First
European sighting of Far Eastern 'stink bug'
in Switzerland. Read more
3
April 2008: Cargo
ship set for precision docking with space station. 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
29 February 2008: The
Valencian Regional Government
offers sixty Santiago Grisolia grants for foreign fellow investigators
interested in participating in specific research programmes in a range
of
subjects. Read
more
22
February 2008: Veneto Victoria research
fellowship program — Food science. 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: A
faulty control cable caused the
glitch that subjected two Russian cosmonauts and Malaysia's
first space traveler to a rough trip back to Earth, according to a
report
Tuesday. 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: A conference
on the situation and
future of agri-food research in Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia
and the Former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia will be held
in Belgrade, Serbia,
on 27 March. Read
more
24 January 2008: Russia,
whose space programme relies heavily on a base in neighbouring Kazakhstan,
is to build its own launch site for manned flights by 2018, First
Deputy Prime
Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying Wednesday. Read more
3 December 2007: Russian
President Vladimir Putin
promised on Friday to double research money for science, which will
surpass 11
billion euros (16.1 billion dollars) between now and 2010. Read more
27
November 2007: The
first ever event devoted to
French competition poles and Italian technology districts and parks
will take
place in Milan, Italy on 28 November. Read more
14 November 2007: Russian
scientists have been
collaborating with their colleagues from the EU for decades. In 2005,
EU-Russia
scientific cooperation was given a boost when EU Science and Research
Commissioner Janez Potocnik and his Russian counterpart, Andrei
Fursenko,
agreed to work towards a common EU-Russian vision for research. Read
more
12 November 2007: Russia
has launched a project to create a new generation of spacecraft and
boosters,
the head of national space administration said on Friday, making clear
that
they would not appear on orbit before 2020. Read
more
8
November 2007: The
SEE-ERA-NET has published a raft
of recommendations aimed at bringing the scientific community in the
Western
Balkans closer to that of the EU. Proposals include the establishment
of a
Regional Programme for Cooperation with South-East Europe. Read more
7 November 2007: The Soviet Union once
powered lighthouses on its Arctic coast using
radioactive batteries, leaving its successors the problem of disposing
of the
nuclear waste. Now a cleaner technology is being harnessed to power
lighthouses
in remote places: fuel cells. Read
more
17
October 2007: Germany and Russia signed an agreement on closer
cooperation in research and education on 15 October. Read more
26 September 2007: Widespread
vaccination against deadly bluetongue disease is being called for by
European
countries. Read
more
19 September 2007: Cooperation
between the EU and Russia
in agro-bio-food research has become tighter in recent years, and is
set to
become even stronger in the near future, according to Commission
officials. Read
more
18 September 2007: Poisonous
industrial sites in India,
China
and the
former Soviet Union topped a new ranking this
week of
the world's most polluted places, where millions of people are
threatened by
toxic chemicals, a US-based environment watchdog said. Read more
13
September 2007: The EU Member States and Europe's regions must do more to
exploit synergies between the EU's regional policies and research and
innovation programmes, according to a new Commission communication on
using
research and innovation to boost regional competitiveness. Read more
11 September 2007:A conference on areas
and mechanisms for collaboration between Turkish and European actors in
space
activities will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 22 and 23 October. Read
more
6
September 2007 : Hepatitis
C Virus (HCV) infects up
to 500,000 people in the UK
alone, many of the infections going
undiagnosed. It is the single biggest cause of people requiring a liver
transplant in Britain. Read more
30 August 2007: European
researchers have
successfully decoded the genome of the grapevine. The results reveal
that the
vine contains more than twice as many genes involved in producing
essential
oils and aromas as other plants whose genomes have been sequenced,
suggesting
that the flavours of different grape varieties could be traced to the
genome
level. Read
more
30 August 2007: The
United States and
Europe are working together to tackle global warming, the chief U.S.
climate
negotiator said Wednesday, deflecting growing criticism within the EU
and the
developing world over Washington's perceived go-it-alone stance. Read more
30 August 2007: A colloquium
on the scientific and
fundamental aspects of the Galileo (satellite navigation) programme
will take
place in Toulouse, France,
from 1 to 4 October. Read
more
29 August 2007: The European
Aviation Safety Agency
has published a call for tenders for a study on child restraint systems.
Read more
28 August 2007: Researchers
from the European Science
Foundation (ESF) have overturned conventional thinking about what
really goes
on 3,000 kilometres beneath our feet. Read
more
28 August 2007: The European
Technology Platform (ETP) 'Food for Life' will hold a stakeholders'
meeting on
its implementation plan in Brussels, Belgium,
on 13 September.
Read more
28 August 2007: China
may not pose the immediate threat to Europe's
competitiveness in research and development that many Europeans have
feared. A
new survey from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development
(OECD) concludes that China
still has a long way to go to build a modern, high-performance national
innovation system. Read
more
27 August 2007: Researchers
from the European
Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have uncovered how the molecular
machinery
that mediates cell division in developing egg cells functions. Read
more
7 August 2007: Aquaculture Europe
2007, organised by the European Aquaculture Society, will take place in
Istanbul, Turkey,
from 24 to 27 October. Read
more
2 August 2007: Siberia
is experiencing earlier springs, a study of satellite images has
revealed. The
trend is likely to be triggering more forest fires, say researchers,
and to be
linked to global warming. Read
more
23 August: The Hungarian Government has
adopted a
mid-term science, technology and innovation (STI) policy strategy
covering the
period 2007 to 2013. The paper sets out a number of goals intended to
help Hungary
on its way to becoming an innovative, knowledge-based and highly
developed
country by 2025. Read more
23 August 2007:
Two European Space Agency (ESA) satellites have been tracking the
path of
Hurricane Dean as it swept across the Caribbean
and Mexico,
providing timely warnings for emergency rescue services. Read more
23 August 2007:
A workshop on molecular targets for cancer will take place at the
Neumünster
Abbey in Luxembourg
on 28 and 29 September. Read more
22 August 2007:
Nordic countries, with the notable exception of Denmark,
have the highest cancer survival rates in Europe,
according to a study published in The Lancet Oncology journal. Read more
22 August 2007:
A Czech technology platform (CTP) in the field of mechanical
engineering could
be approved for a February 2008 start, the Czech Liaison Office for
Research
and Development, Czelo, reports. Read
more
22 August 2007:
A conference entitled 'Rare diseases research: building on success'
will
take place on 13 September in Brussels,
Belgium.
Read more
21 August 2007:
The European Commission's Energy and Transport DG and the Swiss
Federal
Office of Transport have published a call for tenders for 'best
research on
traffic management systems for transalpine road freight transport'. Read more
26 July 2007: Some 905 proposals
were submitted in response to the first Marie Curie Initial Training
Networks
(ITNs) call of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which closed on 7
May. A
total of 197 of these proposals will now go forward to the second stage
of
evaluation. Read more
24 July
2007: On
18 June 2007, at
the Paris Air Show, the EU and Russia
signed an agreement to work together more closely in the field of
aeronautics research. Read
more
24 July 2007: The automotive, ship and rail
industries are just three of
the sectors that will benefit from research carried out under COST
Action 532.
Read more
18 July 2007: The European Union
and Israel have agreed to renew their
science and technological cooperation, giving Israeli researchers,
universities
and companies full access to the EU's Seventh Research Framework
Programme
(FP7). Read more
17 July 2007: The
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published
a call
for tenders for a study on behavioural surveillance related to Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and (Sexually Transmitted Infections) STI
in Europe.
Read
more
16
July 2007:
An information and networking event presenting Turkey's
research expertise in the field of nanotechnologies will take place on
17 July
in Brussels, Belgium.
Read more
13 July 2007: The European Commission's Joint
Research Centre (JRC) and Turkey have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to
increase research cooperation in the areas of food safety, energy and
chemicals. Read
more
13 July 2007: The
International Space Station crew
is preparing for the arrival of another Russian cargo spacecraft by
discarding
no longer needed items. Read
more
11 July 2007: The
EU's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) has
issued a call for tenders for a study on the impact of information and
communication technologies (ICT) in primary schools. Read
more
11 July 2007: The
Federal Office for the Environment
(FOEN) and the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)
have published the Basis Report to the
Swiss Actionplan Risk Assessment and --management of engineered
nanoparticles. Read
more
10 July 2007: Northwest Biotherapeutics, a
US-based biotech company, said Monday it had won approval for
commercial use of the world's first vaccine against brain cancer in Switzerland.
Read more
10 July 2007: The Federation
Council on Friday approved the law "On the Russian Nanotechnology
Corporation". The law was drafted pursuant to President Vladimir
Putin's Annual Address to the Federal Assembly and the Nanoindustry
Development Program up the Year 2015. Read more
10 July 2007: Greenland was once truly green, according to new research which
shows that
the southern highlands of the country used to be home to a lush boreal
forest. Read
more
4 July 2007: Astronomy is entering a new golden age of discovery
led by breakthroughs in telescopes and instruments making them capable
of observing distant events early in the life of the universe. Read
more
4 July 2007: Swiss
scientists said Monday that
they have further evidence to suggest that an enzyme secreted by the
microbe
that causes tuberculosis would make a promising target for new drugs to
combat
the deadly infectious disease. Read more
3
July 2007:
Cooperation between European scientists and colleagues on the other
side of the
world is set to get a lot easier, thanks to two new schemes between
COST
(European Cooperation in Science and Technology) and Australia
and New Zealand.
Read
more
3 July 2007:
ECDC wishes to engage the services of a company/institute with broad
experience
in infectious diseases epidemiology and expertise in European and/or
international response activities to incidents of infectious diseases
that
could be transmitted on aircraft. The purpose of the tender is to
identify a
suitable company/institute to write the risk assessment guidelines for
this
area. Read
more
3
July 2007:
An international workshop on nanosciences and nanotechnologies (NN07)
will take
place from 16 to 18 July in Thessaloniki,
Greece.
Read
more
27 June 2007: NASA
and its 15 partner nations, including Russia, Canada, Japan and
European
countries, plan to finish construction of the space station in 2010,
when the
U.S. space shuttles are grounded and NASA focuses its manned
spaceflight
program on returning to the moon in an Orion spacecraft. Read
more
27 June 2007: Want to be sure
it's GM-free? buy
food in Moscow. While
ecologists
welcome the initiative to label all GM foods, producers say it will be
too
costly and complex to implement and could mislead consumers into
thinking the
ingredients are better than they really are. Read
more
26 June 2007: Russian
billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov
launched on Thursday a $17 billion (8.6 billion pound) private
investment fund,
Onexim Group, which he said could almost double in value by developing
energy,
nano-technology and mining projects. read more
19 June 2007: One of the core aims of the European
Research Area (ERA) is to address the fragmentation of research
efforts, which
continues to afflict Europe's competitiveness. Reducing fragmentation is
also among the goals of the NIS-NEST project, which is looking
eastwards to the
countries of the former Soviet Union, where some of
the 'crème-de-la-crème' of European frontier research
resides. Funded under the
'New and emerging technologies' (NEST) section of Sixth Framework
Programme
(FP6), the project brings together partners from the Russian
Federation,
Ukraine, Belarus and Republic of Moldova. The aim is to strengthen
cooperation
between researchers in these countries and their colleagues in the
West. Greece and France are also partners in the project. read more
12 June 2007: Russia
is budgeting billions of dollars to spend on nanotechnologies in a bid
to catch
up with the West, but development of the sector is still held back by a
wary
business community, experts say. read more
7
June 2007: Russia
is budgeting billions of dollars to spend on nanotechnologies in a bid
to catch
up with the West, but development of the sector is still held back by a
wary
business community, experts say. read more
1
June 2007: An
international congress on food and nutrition will take place in Istanbul,
Turkey, from 22 to
24
October. read
more
24
May 2007: China and Russia aim to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars in
28 months, it was reported Tuesday. read
more
1 May 2007: The
head of Russia's
space agency says that the US
has rejected a Moscow
proposal that
the two countries join forces to explore the Moon. read more
23 April 2007: Russia
to invest over $US1 billion in nanotechnology. The Kurchatov Institute
will
co-ordinate the research effort in a bid to diversify the fuel-based
economy. read
more
23 April 2007: The number of
overweight people in Europe
is rising and there is an especially worrying trend of increasing
childhood
obesity and in the number of people who are grossly obese, according to
recent
studies. read
more
12 April 2007: A workshop on
heavy metals in the
environment and the wellbeing of humans and animals will be held in Bucharest,
Romania, on 20 and
21
April. read
more
14 March 2007: China announces plans for astronomy satellite, space
cooperation. An outline of the joint projects planned with Russia
and France. read
more
7
March 2007: An
information day on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take
place in Chisinau, Moldova,
on 30 March. read
more
16
February 2007: A new nanotechnology
research institute in Turkey is attracting scientists
that had moved abroad
back to their country of origin. read
more14
February 2007: The project
Researching Inequalities
through Science and Technology (ResIST) will hold a workshop in Istanbul,
Turkey on 7 and 8
March. read
more
31 January 2007: Turkey
will launch the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) nationally in Ankara
on 12 and 13 February. read
more
24 January 2007: A new
cross-border dark fibre link
has been established between Bosnia and
Herzegovina and Belgrade,
the capital of Serbia.
The link has been put in place through the 'South Eastern European
research and
education networking 2' (SEEREN2) project. The connection will allow
researchers within Bosnia and
Herzegovina
access to the high speed GÉANT2 network, and hence will
facilitate the involvement
of the country's scientists in research projects with a European
dimension. read
more
23 January 2007: The
Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) is organising a conference on the
'Transport' thematic priority of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7),
which
will take place in Istanbul, Turkey
on 26 January. read
more
22 December 2006: President
Roh Moo-hyun and his
Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko yesterday agreed to strengthen
bilateral ties in the area of aerospace technology. read
more
1 December 2006: A Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7)
national information event will take place on 6 to7 December, in Istanbul,
Turkey. read
more
30 November 2006: A conference on information and
communication technologies (ICT) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey,
on 29 and 30 January. read more
22 November 2006: New edition of
Report “Social Sciences in Europe”. How do the
social
sciences help us expand our knowledge about the forces driving or
underlying
our actions? This second version of the report Social Sciences in Europe
focuses on recent and current projects that have been funded by the
European
Science Foundation, and emphasises the importance of social sciences
research,
which addresses and provides answers to critical questions raised by
today’s
society. The brochure can be downloaded electronically from our
website. Direct link: http://www.esf.org/publication/224/SocialSciencesinEurope.pdf (or go to the
homepage http://www.esf.org/social and download
it from the
“Publications” section).
22
November 2006: European Social Survey: Call for
Questionnaire Design
Teams. The Principal Investigator of the European Social Survey (ESS)
is
inviting proposals from multi-national teams to design modules for the
questionnaire for Round 4 of the ESS.
Full details can be found on http://naticent02.uuhost.uk.uu.net/call_for_proposals.htm . The ESS is a is an
academically-driven social
survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's
changing
institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its
diverse
populations. Now in its third round, the survey covers over 20 nations
and
employs the most rigorous methodologies. The fieldwork has been funded
through
the European Commission’s fifth and sixth Framework Programme, the
European
Science Foundation and national funding bodies in each country. In
addition the
ESS is among the first social science projects to receive funding to
support
its infrastructure. The call will close
on 23 February 2007 at 17.00 CET.
22
November 2006: A new European
project aims to increase our knowledge of water borne diseases and so
help to
improve the quality of drinking water in Europe. read more
21 November 2006: A
workshop on the financial aspects
of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take place in Istanbul,
Turkey, on 31
January. read
more
9 November 2006: Russian and Chinese space agency
officials say they will build and launch an ultraviolet space
observatory to be
placed into orbit in 2010. read
more
19 October 2006: US,
Russian scientists discover new element. Element 118, a superheavy
element,
also known as ununoctium. read
more
19 October 2006: This year's 'Alpha Summit
Europe' will take place on
29 and 30 November in Munich, Germany. The event aims
to provide a global high-level networking platform in Europe for technology
entrepreneurs. This year the event will focus on creating both
'buy-side' and
'sell-side' opportunities for all attendees, be they entrepreneurs,
investors,
corporations or limited partners. read more
4 October 2006: A training seminar on
aspects of the project life
cycle under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take place on 30
and
31October in Istanbul, Turkey. read more
2 October 2006: Bulgaria
has become the first country in
South East Europe to hold the annual Euro-China forum, highlighting the
growing
importance of economies in South East Europe to china and the expanding
EU. read more
21 September 2006: Europe's
growing diabetes epidemic could cripple healthcare budgets in coming
decades,
particularly in eastern countries, an expert warned on Thursday. Read
more
11 September 2006: Janez
Potocnik has encouraged the Turkish government to sign up to the EU's
Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7). Mr Potocnik is on his first official visit
to Turkey as European Commissioner for Science and
Research. read
more
8 September 2006: A research conference entitled 'Food,
agriculture,
biotechnology' will take place on 18 September in Antalya, Turkey. read
more
7 September 2006: The 21st International Symposium on
Computer and
Information Sciences, 1-3 November 2006 in Istanbul, Turkey. Organised by the Faculty of Engineering
and Natural
Sciences at Sabanci University, Turkey, this now well-established event covers a
wide range
of topics, from computer networks and security, computer graphics and
user
interfaces to artificial intelligence and machine learning - subjects
featured
in a collection of papers delivered in the 2005 edition. read more
6 September 2006: Climate change raises Europe infectious disease threat. Diseases
caused by marine organisms
flourishing in Europe's warmer waters are posing a new threat
to
holidaymakers. read
more
24 August 2006: Bloomberg
Examines HIV Among IDUs In Russia.
Read
more
24 August 2006: China
and Russia
plan
to launch a joint mission to Mars in 2009 to scoop up rocks from the
red planet
and one of its moons. Read
more
2
August 2006:
Suitably
qualified applicants from any branch of the Social
Sciences and Humanities are invited to apply for 11 fully-funded PhD
studentships and two one-year postdoctoral fellowships in any of the
following
key research themes related to current and past developments in Russia,
Central
and Eastern Europe and the former USSR. read
more
2 August 2006: Applications are invited
for the newly endowed post of Chair in Contemporary Turkish Studies in
the
European Institute. The appointment will be from 1
April 2007 or later
by agreement. The Chair has been established on a permanent
basis as a result of the generosity of various donors. read
more
13 July 2006: Turkey
is a relative newcomer to the Framework Programme (FP). While Turkish
researchers participated under the international scientific cooperation
(INCO)
section of FP5, the country did not become a full participant until
2003, under
FP6. read
more
5 July 2006: An autumn school on knowledge assessment
methodologies will take place from 25 to 29 September in Istanbul, Turkey. read
more
13 June 2006: Norway is the first non-EU country to sign the
Memorandum
of Understanding, to take the Commission's eCall initiative into
reality during
the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council in Luxemburg on 8
June. read
more
9 June 2006: A new Centre of Excellence in
microelectronics has
been created in the Czech Republic, bringing together researchers and
infrastructure
from across Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. The centre, ChipInvest, is intended to
be a
one-stop-shop for expertise in the microelectronics field. read
more
9 June 2006: In order to promote their its research
community,
TUBITAK (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)
has
created a catalogue of Turkish researchers. The catalogue is in English
and
provides contact details, together with a brief profile and key
research areas,
of over 900 researchers from academic institutions, research
organisations and
companies from across Turkey. The researchers have been classified
according to
the thematic areas of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), and the
list
will be updated regularly. read
more
1. June 2006: Turkish scientists say they
have discovered a new immune deficiency
disease and are calling for more research to stop what could be a
serious
problem. read more
1 June 2006: Ministers
and representatives from the European Union, Russia , Japan , China , India , South Korea and the United States of America met in Brussels on 24 May to initial an
agreement for the world's largest collaborative research project, ITER,
to
demonstrate the potential of nuclear fusion as an energy source. read more
31 May 2006: The
first regional European Innovation Dialogue (EID) will take place in
Budapest, Hungary on 21-23 June. The event aims to open lines of
communication between innovative companies, and between innovative
companies and policy makers at all levels. The event will give
delegates the opportunity to make new business connections and to learn
more about European and national policy-making and how it influences
business, including the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The event
will be of interest to those in innovative companies or those wanting
to increase their innovative potential. read more
31 May 2006: The
European Commission will host a workshop on the development of
infrastructures for repositories of scientific information, on the 8
and 9 June, in Brussels. Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), for which
the Commission is carrying a number of impact assessment initiatives,
addressing the area of DR and knowledge infrastructures as background
of its future policy work. read more
30 May 2006: An
SME day will be held in Brussels, Belgium on 6 June under the title,
'Accelerating small business innovation'. The day will showcase some of
the new technologies available to the EU's 22 million small and
medium-sized businesses, employing a 120 million-strong workforce,
contributing to 57 per cent of the EU's GDP. The day will focus
particularly on the impact of information and communication technology
(ICT) on SMEs. Representatives from Microsoft will attend, adding their
support. The day will be of interest to SME workers and owners from
throughout Europe. read more
29 May 2006: A
training workshop on aspects of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
will take place on 27 June in Madrid, Spain. The event will detail the
objectives and instruments of FP7, and outline strategies that would
benefit participants, and increase their chances of success in
participating in FP7. read more
29 May 2006: The
Irish government has announced the creation of a two million euro
research programme for the biotechnology industry. This BioIndustry-Led
Research Programme aims to address biotechnology research and
development (R&D) priorities identified by companies in Ireland,
and conduct research projects in these areas over the next two to three
years. read
more
25 May 2006: The
Belgian region of Flanders is to set up a new scheme for financing
research infrastructure, Hercules Financing. According to Fientje
Moerman, the Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science,
Innovation and Foreign Trade, the initiative will help to attract
foreign researchers to Flanders and facilitate cross-border
cooperation. read
more
25 May 2006:
Fundación CIDAUT has organised a seminar on the participation of
automotive small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7), to be held in Valladolid, Spain, on 1 June.
The event is organised by the AUTO-IN project, funded under the Sixth
Framework Programme (FP6), and aims to boost participation of SMEs in
FP7. read
more
25 May 2006: A one day 'Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) best
practice update' workshop will take place on 22 June in Brussels. This
event seeks to address issues relating to the financial management of
FP6 projects. read
more
23 May 2006: EU
Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, has said that
should the EU increase its investment in research to three per cent of
GDP, it would result in an average increase in GDP of between 3 and 10
per cent by 2010. The Commissioner was speaking at a Commission
conference on the open method of coordination (OMC) in research, in
Brussels on 18 May. read
more
23 May 2006:
Xplora, within the Pencil Project, has organised a conference for
science teachers, to take place at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, from 15
to 18 June. The conference will focus on open source and information
and communications technologies (ICT) in science education, science
teaching approaches, the role of science centres in education, and
more. read more
19 May 2006:
The SEE-GRID-2 project launched on 1 May, with a special meeting in
Istanbul on 4 May. The project, 'South Eastern European Grid-Enabled
eInfrastructure Development-2', improves on the existing GRID
structure, SEE-GRID, which integrated the South Eastern states into the
main EU GRID networks. The original SEE-GRID project gave countries in
the South-Eastern region of Europe access to the research
infrastructures of Central Europe. It thus gave these countries the
opportunity to bridge the 'digital divide' which exists between the
countries of South East and Central Europe. read more
19 May 2006: Italy's
outgoing government has denied claims that it blocked the funding of a
national 'brain gain' action plan aimed at supporting the return of the
country's leading researchers and scientists from abroad. read
more
19 May 2006: A
CORDIS information day will take place on 25 May in Prague, Czech
Republic. The event includes a morning session aimed providing
participants who intend drafting Framework Programme project proposals
with an introduction to some of the services available through CORDIS
portal that may help them in the process. An afternoon session, open to
a larger public, will provide an overview of the Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7) and its respective service on CORDIS, as well as
details of research and innovation opportunities available through the
portal. read
more
19 May 2006: Two
training days on the Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes (FP6 and
FP7), focusing in particular on funding mechanisms, will take place on
7 and 8 June in Brussels, Belgium. The first day will be devoted
entirely to FP7, its thematic areas, and how it differs from FP6. The
second day will examine FP6 and current policies for research, and how
research overlaps with the Lisbon strategy and innovation. read
more
18 May 2006:
Training on the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), will take place in
Izmir, Turkey, on 24 and 25 May. The event will be held under the
umbrella of the EU-funded TrainNet Future project, which is designed to
raise the quantity and quality of research projects in the 'food
quality and safety' section of FP6. In particular, project partners
want to increase the participation of researchers from the new EU
Member States and candidate countries. The event will include
presentations on FP7, Technology Platforms, and various aspects of FP6
- intellectual property rights (IPR), project management, and project
evaluation. read
more
18 May 2006: Turkey's
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) National Coordination Office has
organised a series of six workshops, with training organised by TUBITAK
(the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), to help
interested parties write applications for and manage Framework
Programme (FP) projects. Six learning days will take place in four
different Turkish cities: Izmir, Istanbul, Antalya and Edirne, between
23 and 31 May. Four days will include practical information on writing
proposals for FP6 and FP7. Two days will address the management of FP
projects. read more
17 May 2006: Attracting,
developing and employing women and men equally in science and
technology requires a significant cultural change. Ultimately however,
this change is essential for Europe's innovation, growth and
competitiveness, Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and
Research, told participants attending the conference 're-searching
women in science and technology' on 15 May in Vienna, Austria. read
more
16 May 2006: The
President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS), Professor E.
Szilvester Vizi, has responded to criticisms of the structure of HAS,
and said that the way ahead for HAS is to transfer long-accumulated
knowledge quickly and efficiently into the Hungarian economy for the
benefit of all. read
more
15 May 2006: The
Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE) is
organising a training course on how to write project proposals for the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), to be held on 6 and 7 July in Rome,
Italy. The course will aim to improve the project design capacity of
would-be FP7 participants by training them in the Logical Framework
Approach (LFA), a methodology for improving the systematic planning of
project proposals. read more
15 May 2006: A
conference to discuss converting intelligent energy policy into action
will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 30 May. The Intelligent Energy
- Europe (IEE) programme is the main tool for converting EU policy for
smart energy use and renewables into action on the ground. read
more
15 May 2006: Przemyslowy Instytut Elektroniki has organised the
fourth conference on 'Ecology in Electrics', to take place in Warsaw,
Poland, on 5 and 6 June. The conference will be a forum for the latest
in the ecological design of electronics. Themes will cover sustainable
development in electronics, methods of energy consumption and weight
reduction in electronics products, eco-design of electronics systems,
and environmentally friendly technologies for manufacturing components.
read more
12 May 2006: An
international conference on the theme of 'communicating objects' and
new mobile services will take place in Brussels on 2 June. The event is
being organised within the scope of a number of EU funded information
society technologies (IST) projects of the Sixth Framework Programme
(FP6), namely NGN-LAB; 6NET; Euro6; EGEE; and Eurolabs. read more
11 May 2006: The
Palacký University Olomouc and The Czech Liaison Office for
R&D have organised a seminar to discuss Regional Innovation in
Central Europe, using the example of the Czech Republic's Olomouc
Region. The event will take place on 16 May. Czech academics and other
experts will give speeches on materials research and technology
transfer, and on the application of medical research. read more
11 May
2006: The Parliament Magazine, a Brussels-based publication in
which EU
policy-makers get their say, has added a new research and technology
category to its MEP Awards 2006. A ceremony will take place on 10
October in Brussels. The new category allows for the singling out MEPs
who have done good work throughout the past year in the field of
research and technology, by, for example, leading a report, or being
involved and enthusiastic in this policy field. read more
11 May 2006: The
European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations (KoWi) is
hosting a science talk on the subject of stem cell research on 23 May
in Brussels. The talk, entitled 'Stem cell research - science and
fiction' will be given by Professor Hans Robert Schöler, Director
of the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine at the Department
for Cell and Developmental Biology in Münster. read more
10 May 2006:
The 13th Congress on Alternatives to Animal Testing will take place in
Linz, Austria, from 2 to 4 June. The congress will also host the tenth
annual meeting of MEGAT - Middle European Society for Alternative
Methods to Animal Testing. read more
5 May 2006:
The ceremony for European Inventor of the Year was held for the first
time in Brussels on 3 May. Winners from six categories picked up
awards, and several of the recipients highlighted the role that basic
research had played in their invention.
Former BBC newsreader Michael Buerk presented the awards, for
breakthroughs in fighting Hepatitis B, novel anti-viral properties, the
DNA chip, methods for intercepting proteins that cause illness,
technology to increase the data volume of hard drives, and the
microchip. read
more
5 May 2006: 'Intellectual property holds the key to innovation,
which, in turn, holds the key to our economic future,' said
Director-General of the European Commission's Enterprise DG, David
White, at the European Inventor of the Year conference in Brussels on 3
May. The guardians of intellectual property (IP) - patents - were the
focus of discussion at the first day of the conference, and more
precisely, the extent to which patents are an asset, and the degree to
which a Community Patent would offer European innovators an advantage. read more
5 May 2006: A
Netherlands-based company will begin producing bacteria that can be
used to kill pathogens in meat and cheese products. With the increasing
emphasis by consumers and regulators on food safety, and the prospect
of costly recalls, fines and brand damage, processors are constantly on
the lookout for quicker and cheaper ways of preventing bacterial
contamination of their products. read
more
5 May 2006: The Polish parliament's proposed ban on the sale and
registration, but apparently not planting, of biotech seeds, will
likely violate EU regulations, according to a USDA foreign agricultural
service GAIN report. read more
4 May 2006: A
conference to mark the launch of the European Biofuels Technology
Platform will take place on 8 June in Brussels. Organised by the
European Commission with the support of the Biofuels Research Advisory
Council (BIOFRAC), the conference will present the major conclusions
outlined in the BIOFRAC's vision report 'Biofuels in the European Union
? a vision for 2030 and beyond', and officially launch the European
Biofuels Technology Platform. read
more
21 April 2006:
EU moves into wind, Germany
leads world in Photovoltaic, Italians harness the sea.
read
more
13 April 2006: An
international jury chaired by former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok has
nominated inventors from eleven countries for the title of 'European
Inventor of the Year'. The winner will be announced in Brussels on 3
May. The candidates are divided into six categories: industry; small
and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); universities and research
institutions; new EU Member States; non-European countries; and
lifetime achievement. read more
12 April 2006:
Baltic Dynamics 2006, an event promoting international cooperation and
the exchange of experiences in the fields of innovation, technology
transfer and support for small companies, will take place in Vilnius,
Lithuania, from 24 to 26 May. read more
6 April 2006: The
Austrian Presidency of the European Union will host a conference on
European Technology Platforms in Vienna on 4 and 5 May. The event will
bring together a number of speakers from industry, academia and the
Commission to raise awareness of, and discuss the consequences of
implementing these large-scale initiatives. European Technology
Platforms are intended to help in defining the European Research Area. read
more
6 April 2006: A
brokerage event aimed at increasing the participation of small and
medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Sixth and Seventh Framework
Programmes (FP6 and FP7) will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on 17
May. The event has been organised by NAoMITEC, an EU funded project
that supports the involvement of SMEs in Integrated Projects and
Networks of Excellence. NAoMITEC is particularly interested in the
participation of nanotechnology SMEs, project coordinators and
representatives from Technology Platforms. read more
4 April 2006: Human
trials of an experimental vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus have
begun in Belgium. The jab is aimed at protecting against the virulent
avian infection which has killed more than a hundred people worldwide. read more
4 April 2006: A financial workshop on the Sixth Framework
Programme (FP6) will take place from 8 to 10 May in Zagreb, Croatia.
The event is aimed at project managers and company accountants who wish
to know how to optimise the grant received for research projects under
FP6. The key financial aspects of each phase of the FP6 process, from
proposal through to the final Cost Statements, will be covered during
the workshop. read more
3 April 2006: Swiss
universities will hold a 'research day' on 11 May, involving
presentations of research activities and priorities at the country's
seven public universities. A presentation in Bern will mark the
kick-off of the event on 10 May, and will address the state of applied
research and development (R&D) in Swiss universities, highlights
from research laboratories, and the future. read more
29 March 2006: The
European Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) are jointly
organising a gala evening for the first-ever presentation of the
European Inventor of the Year awards, to take place on 3 May in
Brussels, Belgium. The achievements of inventors in six different
categories will be honoured by Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of
the European Commission and patron of the gala, and EPO President Alain
Pompidou. An international jury, chaired by former Dutch Prime Minister
Wim Kok, will choose the prizewinners in each category, on the basis of
outstanding technical inventions for which the EPO granted a patent
between 1991 and 2000. read
more
22 March 2006: All
25 EU Member States presented their key Lisbon priorities and
challenges at the European Business Summit in Brussels on 16 and 17
March, and improving the environment for research and development
(R&D) and innovation was a recurring theme. read more
22 March 2006: The DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure
for supercomputing applications) consortium will hold a symposium
entitled 'European supercomputing grid infrastructure' in Bologna,
Italy, on 4 and 5 May. The event will provide a forum for discussion on
scientific and strategic challenges in high performance computing, and
on assessing the impact of DEISA on computational science in Europe. read more
21 March 2006: Applications for the training meeting within the
second INFOBIOMED Training Challenge, which will take place in
Barcelona, Spain from 29 May to 2 June, will close on 24 March. The
training meeting will gather two groups of five students with different
academic backgrounds (for example bioinformatics, medical informatics,
biology, medicine, chemistry) who will be working together in a case
study that can benefit from an integrative approach. read
more
20 March 2006: A
conference on 'Competitiveness and communication - the role of EU
associations' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 April. The
event will address issues such as research and innovation strategies
for associations, dialogues between the EU and associations, the
Commission and consultation with industry, and the benefits of long
term association-industry relationships. read more
16 March 2006: Business
representatives will urge Europe's leaders to back up their fine words
on the relaunched Lisbon agenda with deeds, during the fourth European
Business Summit (EBS) in Brussels on 16 and 17 March. read more
14 March 2006: A
conference to discuss and present the results of the 'Opening Channels
of Communication between the Associated Candidate Countries and the EU
in Ecological Farming', known as CHANNEL, will take place in Budapest,
Hungary, between 5 and 7 April. read
more
14 March 2006: An international workshop entitled 'Products
from
plants: the biorefinery future' is being organised by the EPOBIO
consortium, and will take place in Wageningen, the Netherlands, from 22
to 24 May. EPOBIO is a scientific support to policy initiative funded
under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The event aims to address
issues relating to realising the economic potential of biorenewables
and sustainable resources for manufacture. The organisers are seeking
the input of senior academics, industrialists and policy makers to
identify and design flagship research and development projects for
development over the coming years, to ensure that pre-competitive
research is targeted at sustainable products that will benefit society.
read more
9 March 2006:
A conference entitled 'Re-searching women in science and technology'
will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 15 and 16 May. The event is
intended to give a new impetus to increasing the percentage of women in
industrial research. Strategies for equal opportunities will be
presented, and new action plans will be drawn up and discussed. read
more
6 March 2006: The
State of Baden-Württemberg in Germany and the PAXIS regions of
excellence will give a presentation on European Innovation at its best
on 21 March in Brussels, Belgium. They will also present the PAXIS
Manual for Innovation Policy Makers and Practitioners. read
more
3 March 2006: CORDIS,
the European Union's official information service on research and
innovation, will host two specialist sessions at this year's European
Business Summit in Brussels, Belgium, both on 16 March. read more
3 March 2006: Friends Of Europe have organised an 'Atlantic
Rendez-vous' TV debate to discuss innovation and the transatlantic
hi-tech marketplace. It will take place on 17 March at the European
Business Summit in Brussels. The debate will involve decision makers on
both sides of the Atlantic, linked by satellite. EU companies supply
half of foreign investment into the US, while US companies invest 14
times the figure invested in China in the EU. read more
27 February 2006: A
meeting on the EU's Technology Platforms will take place in Rome,
Italy, on 1 and 2 March. The event is intended to present the EU's 31
existing platforms, and to stimulate participation in them. Italian
participation in the Technology Platforms is currently fairly weak in
comparison with that of other European countries, according to the
event organiser, Italy's Agency for the Promotion of European Research
(APRE). read more
27 February 2006: The Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC)
and Nanoforum will hold a conference on 'Nano and the Environment' in
Brussels, Belgium, on 30 and 31 March. The conference will address the
possible positive environmental impact of nanotechnology on monitoring,
pollution, remediation and resource saving. The conference will be
discussion-based, and will be attended by a host of experts in
nanotechnology and officials from the European Commission. The
discussions will form the backbone of a paper to be presented to the
Commission, designed to influence future policy decisions. read
more
27 February 2006: France and the Netherlands are to carry out
targeted preventive vaccination campaigns on poultry, as a
precautionary measure against highly pathogenic avian influenza. The
vaccination programmes are authorised only for specific birds in
specified regions, and will be subject to rigorous surveillance and
control requirements. These include movement restrictions, strict
monitoring of vaccinated flocks to ensure that there is no undetected
outbreak of avian influenza and careful record-keeping. Vaccinated
poultry must also be able to be differentiated from poultry and birds
with the avian influenza virus. The Commission proposals to authorise
the vaccination plans also lay out conditions and limits for the trade
of the vaccinated birds and their products.
23 February 2006: The
European Regions Research and Innovation Network (ERRIN) will host its
annual general event on 7 March in Brussels, Belgium.
The event addresses the importance of regions for sustainable
development and innovation. Confirmed speakers on the day include
Danuta Hübner, Commissioner for Regional Policy at the European
Commission, Atilio Martinetti from the Milan Chamber of Commerce
special agency and Amanda Orchard from Advantage West Midlands in the
UK. read more
15 February 2006: Three
more countries said they had detected cases of deadly bird flu in wild
swans, with Germany, Iran and Austria the latest to find the virus that
has killed 91 people worldwide. Austria and Germany became the third
and fourth European Union countries to report H5N1 bird flu, just three
days after the bloc's first instances were confirmed by Italy and
Greece. Germany said its results came from initial tests. Both
countries said samples of the dead birds had been sent to the EU's
reference laboratory in Britain for confirmation. read
more
15 February 2006: A report by Dutch researchers has found that
more than two in every five heart attacks go undiagnosed. The study of
7,085 people over the age of 55 in a suburb of the Dutch city of
Rotterdam initially looked at chronically disabling diseases. The study
on heart attacks was a by-product of this initial research. Some 5148
people from the initial study in 1990 had no evidence of myocardial
infarction (MI, or more commonly, heart attack). read
more
14 February 2006: A
workshop on best practice in relation to financial management under the
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place in Brussels, Belgium,
on 16 March. read
more
13 February 2006: An
information day on the study and research of cultural heritage will
take place in Rome on 13 February. The event is designed to encourage
participation under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and discussion
on what is likely under the FP7 round of funding. read
more
10 February 2006: Sweden
aims to be the first country in the world to completely eliminate oil
as a fuel, by focusing on renewable sources. The Swedish parliament
said that the move to replace fossil fuels with renewable forms of
energy was essential on environmental and economic grounds. read more
10 February 2006: The Czech Liaison Office for Research and
Development (CZELO) has organised a seminar on waste recycling
technologies: large-scale recycling of industrial waste material and
waste resulting from disposal of old ecological load, to take place on
22 February in Brussels, Belgium. Several companies from the Czech
Republic and Belgium will be represented at the event. read more
8 February 2006: Austria
is to build a new institute of scientific excellence that is intended
to act as a stimulus for the country's science system as a whole, and
to increase the attractiveness of Austria as a country for conducting
science and research. The centre will be built in Klosterneuburg in
Lower Austria. read
more
8 February 2006: A conference entitled 'Research and innovation
- an opportunity for convergence regions' will take place in Warsaw,
Poland, on 13 February. The event will include addresses by MEP and
rapporteur on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Jerzy Buzek, EU
Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik, EU Commissioner for
Regional Policy Danuta Hübner, and Polish Minister for Economy
Piotr Wozniak. Issues addressed will include support for research and
innovation from the EU's Structural Funds, investing in regional
research infrastructure, the EU's Regions of Knowledge initiative, and
existing regional clusters and initiatives. read more
7 February 2006: The
International Business Forum Exchange will host the International
Exhibition on Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Sources in
Sofia, Bulgaria, between the 8 and 11 March 2006. The exhibition is
designed to bring together business and investment professionals to
discuss applications for renewable energy in the area. The main topics
will be energy efficiency, deploying renewable energy and financing
projects. The event aims to draw public attention to energy saving
methods, and to present new technologies to a Bulgarian audience. read
more
7 February 2006: A workshop on food safety and quality
management
systems will take place in Ghent, Belgium, on 16 and 17 March. The
event is organised by PathogenCombat, a project funded under the EU's
Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The objective of the workshop is to
give a general introduction to the development of food safety and
quality management systems as seen by the project consortium. read
more
2 February 2006: The
European automotive research partners association (EARPA) will hold a
conference in Brussels, Belgium, on 9 and 10 March, at which
stakeholders will discuss the future of the automotive world,
particularly in view of the forthcoming Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7). The event will include presentations by EU officials, and MEP,
and representatives from various stakeholder groups. read more
1 February 2006: The
'e-Health 2006' high level conference will take place in Malaga, Spain,
from 10 to 12 May. Under the patronage of the European Commission, the
event is organised with the objective of analysing the role of the
European regions in e-health strategies. The central theme 'e-Health in
the Europe of the Regions: Networks for Health' will be structured
around sub-subjects including: general health issues, technical
aspects, new roles for the citizen; and prospective analysis. read
more
31 January 2006: The
European Commission is organising a conference on the role of
foundations and private philanthropy in the field of research, to take
place on 27 and 28 March in Brussels, Belgium. Participants will
discuss how philanthropy - foundations, trusts, charities, etc. - can
fund knowledge generation, in particular research activities, and
explore strategies and initiatives to strengthen the potential of
philanthropy as a source of funding for research in Europe. Guest
speakers will include the EU Commissioner for Science and Research,
Janez Potocnik. read more
31 January 2006: The Enhanced
Participation in IST projects related to e-health and e-inclusion
(EPIST) project will host a workshop in Warsaw, Poland, on 15 February.
read more
30 January 2006: Academia
Europaea will run an international symposium on quality assessment in
institutions of higher education in Pavia, Italy, from 23 to 25 March.
The conference will deliver an up-to-date analysis of current and
possible future assessment methodologies, practices and problems that
are already applied across European countries, or that are in the
planning stages of implementation. read
more
26 January 2006: COST,
the intergovernmental programme for European cooperation in the field
of scientific and technical research, is organising a strategic
workshop on 'Food and health: the way forward' in Brussels, Belgium,
from 1 to 3 February. read
more
26 January 2006: An information day giving an overview of
Estonia's participation in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) and the
latest developments and prospects for FP7 will be held in Tartu,
Estonia on 27 January. Participants will be presented with an overview
of Estonian successes in 2005 under FP6, as well as learning about the
structure, financial arrangements, instruments and rules for
participation in FP7 and the proposed European Research Council. read
more
25 January 2006: An
event on EU funding for Turkey and the proposed Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7) will take place in Istanbul on 22 February. In addition
to developments relating to FP7, the event will address the status of
EU projects in Turkey and how they have been funded. The programme
includes sessions on FP7's 'Cooperation' programme, the 'Ideas and
People' programmes, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in FP7,
building a strategy to take advantage of FP7 and project management in
FP7. read
more
19 January 2006: An
international symposium on climate change research challenges,
organised by the environment directorate of the Commission's DG
Research, will be held in Brussels on 2 and 3 February. The event is
part of a series of consultation activities organised by the Commission
to provide input into the preparation of the Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7). Recent achievements and the latest research results
will be presented in the fields of climate change, climate change
impacts, ozone depletion, observations and natural hazards. read
more
17 January 2006: A
free workshop to investigate the different ways that can be employed to
communicate science to men and women will be held in Brussels on 9
February. The event aims to see how men and women interpret scientific
information and perceive risk, identifying any gender differences that
might exist. Activities will include investigations into whether the
brains of men and women are different and whether girls and boys should
be taught differently at school. read
more
16 January 2006:
Following six months of discussions, an agreement enabling the
participation of the Republic of Korea in the Galileo project was
signed in Brussels on 12 January. South Korea's expertise in space
technology and applications will make an important contribution to
Galileo. The country also produces and uses many systems that can be
made more competitive with satellite navigation. Indeed, South Korea is
already an active user of satellite navigation services in various
sectors, including transport, fleet management, science and geodesy. read more
16 January 2006: A training course on getting ready for the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will take place on 9 February in
Brussels, Belgium. The workshop will describe the process used to
prepare the programme, and will list the organisations and individuals
involved in the process. The workshop also provides a webpage so that
participants can easily follow the development of the programme. read more
16 January 2006: The fourth EGOV conference, designed to assess
the state of the art in e-government and e-governance, will take place
in Krakow, Poland, from 4 to 8 September. The event is intended to
provide guidance for research and development in this field, and will
bring together researchers and professionals from across the globe
working in various disciplines. A call for research papers for the
conference is currently open, with a first deadline of 15 February. read
more
16 January 2006: An international conference on the
digitisation
of European cultural heritage will take place on 21 and 22 June 2006 in
Salzburg, Austria. The event is being organised by Salzburg Research on
behalf of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and
Culture. read more
13 January 2006: Five
EU Member States - Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, and the Czech
Republic - were among the countries that contributed to a 22 million
acre increase in the global cultivation of biotech crops in 2005,
according to a new report. read more
13 January 2006: In three separate papers on the proposed
European Research Council (ERC), simplification investing in knowledge,
the Czech Academy of Sciences lays out how it sees European research
from 2007 onwards. Starting with the ERC, the Academy has many positive
things to say about the establishment of such a body, but proposes an
alternative structure for the ERC to that put forward by the
Commission. read
more
13 January 2006: A one-day workshop on agricultural engineering
in the context of European research will be held in Brussels on 31
January. Organised by the German Association of Engineers, together
with VDMA, CEMA and EurAgEng, the workshop is designed to prioritise
research topics with the input of experts from across Europe, with the
results being used as the basis for lobbying efforts at EU level with a
view to the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
read more
12 January 2006: The
Austrian government discussed concrete plans for its Presidency of the
EU with representatives of the European Commission on 9 January,
revealing that growth and jobs would form the focus of its activities
for the first half of its six-month term. read more1 and read more2
12 January 2006: An international conference on science for
construction, BUDMA 2006, will be held from 24 to 27 January in Poznan,
Poland. The event will discuss the impact of science on increased
economic competitiveness, and look at the opportunities for the
construction sector in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The event
is aimed at the entire construction community, representatives of the
scientific community, and national and local government personnel.
read more
12 January 2006: A workshop to introduce the sixth information
society technologies (IST) call under the EU's Sixth Framework
Programme (FP6) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 25 January.
Organised by Archimedes Foundation and the IST Bonus project, the event
will give an overview of the opportunities for companies, universities,
institutes and non-profit organisations contained in the sixth IST
call. Practical advice will be given on how to prepare a successful
proposal and how to get involved in and manage EU research projects. read
more
11 January 2006: A
conference and information day on CEAF, a specific support action in
the field of food safety and quality for the new EU Member States, will
take place in Kiev, Ukraine, on 9 and 10 February. The CEAF project is
financed by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme
(FP6), and has the overall aim of seeking to create a synergy for
virtual networking and strengthening cooperation in the area of food
quality and safety between researchers from new EU Member States. read more
11 January 2006: The first session of the 'World congress for
freedom of scientific research' will take place in Rome, Italy, from 16
to 18 February. The meeting, promoted by a renowned group of Italian
researchers and University Professors, will involve scientists,
advocates, patients and decision-makers in a transnational debate
addressing issues related to science, society, politics, law, the
ethics of scientific research, technology, and the latest developments
concerning stem cells. The congress is aimed at encouraging discussion
of emerging threats against research, as well as possible initiatives
to counter them. read
more
14 December 2005: The
European Commission is to contribute an additional 853,000 euro to
support flexible mechanisms and technology transfer activities under
the Kyoto protocol, as part of the agreement reached at the recent UN
climate change conference in Montreal, Canada. read
more
13 December 2005: Finland has launched a new funding programme
aimed at attracting leading foreign researchers to the country, or
encouraging top Finnish researchers working abroad to return home. read more
13 December 2005: The winter conference of the FP6 project
'Polarisation and Conflict' will take place in Milan, Italy, on 16 and
17 December 2005. The purpose of this multi-disciplinary research
project, funded under the 'citizens and governance in a knowledge-based
society' priority of the Sixth Framework Programme, is to promote and
coordinate research on the conceptualisation, modelling and measurement
of polarisation and conflict and the links between the two. read more
13 December 2005: The third edition of the Belgian
entrepreneurship forum will take place in Brussels, Belgium, from 22 to
23 March. The programme will include over 100 conferences, debates and
practical workshops. The event will address, among other areas, the
following themes: management and evaluation of a business; stopping and
re-starting business; finance; creation, support networks,
institutions; innovation, equipment and new technologies; and
franchising. read more
13 December 2005: The European University Association (EUA) has
published a statement expressing the views that a European Institute of
Technology (EIT) must be built, but not at the expenses of the European
Research Council. read more
13 December 2005: Finland has
launched a new funding programme aimed at attracting leading foreign
researchers to the country, or encouraging top Finnish researchers
working abroad to return home. read
more
6 December 2005: The
European finance convention will take place in Brussels, Belgium, from
13 to 14 December. The aim of the event is to provide a platform for
communication, networking and debate. The main theme of this year's
event will be the new challenge of information management in the
financial markets: how new technology, data visualisation software,
intellectual property, outsourcing and governance are transforming
European financial services firms and marketplaces. read more
5 December 2005: The
third edition of an 'advanced research exhibition' will take place in
Trieste, Italy, from 7 to 23 December. The event is part of a series of
biennial exhibitions aimed at bringing the general public closer to the
universe of science and some of the latest breakthroughs in scientific
and technological research. This year's theme is 'air'. read more
2 December 2005: A
seminar on Latvian research and the European Research Area (ERA) will
take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 5 December. Organised by the
Latvian Ministry of Education and Science, the seminar includes
presentations on various aspects of Latvian research, both at the
national level and as an integral part of the European research system.
read
more
2 December 2005: A training course on 'How to negotiate, manage
and administer an EU R&D contract' will take place in Brussels,
Belgium, on 6 December. Organised by Hyperion Ltd, in cooperation with
the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations
(EARTO), this one day workshop is aimed at training research managers
and administrators on how to negotiate, manage and administer EU
research contracts. The course covers Fifth Framework Programme
contracts and Sixth Framework Programme contracts. read more
1 December 2005: Swiss
voters have supported a ban on the commercial cultivation of
genetically modified (GM) crops. The majority was small at 55.6 per
cent, but enough to ensure that GM crops will not be grown in
Switzerland for at least five years. The 'people's initiative' was
brought by a coalition of groups, including environmental, consumer and
agricultural associations. read
more
1 December 2005: A half-day training course entitled 'Getting
ready for Framework 7' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 7
December. Organised by Hyperion Ltd., in cooperation with the European
Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO), the aim
of this half-day day workshop is to train research managers and EU
advisors on how to prepare for Framework 7. The workshop describes the
process used to prepare the programme and it lists the organisations
and individuals involved in the process. It also provides a webpage, so
that participants can easily follow the development of the programme. read more
28 November 2005:
Universities are the main driving force behind scientific output in
Spain, followed by the healthcare sector, according to a report on
scientific activity in Spain published this month. The study analyses
the volume and evolution of research work in various disciplines,
sectors and Spanish regions, which can be compared with the situation
elsewhere in the EU. read
more
28 November 2005: Science and Research Commissioner Janez
Potocnik has used a speech to the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
to urge the country to give the necessary priority to research in its
drive for EU membership. read
more
28 November 2005: An international symposium on tunnel
aerodynamics and ventilation will take 