Fast lane for space technology innovation
Paris, 18 Mar 2004 A new ESA initiative got underway this week to speed up the turnaround time from idea to product. The aim is to support the fast introduction of breakthrough innovations in the...
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Absence of elite distorts picture
Low student reply rate keeps top institutions off tally of campuses and lessens the impact of results. Jessica Shepherd reports. More of the UK's top universities were excluded from the National...
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Northern science lobbies to lift profile
The Northwest is the first English region to launch its own science strategy dedicated to regenerating and encouraging science. "England's Northwest - a strategy towards 2020", launched by the...
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Commissioner Janez Potocnik: New ways to drive demand for new technologies, Austrian Presidency Conference on European Technology Platforms
Vienna, 4 May 2006 Austrian Presidency Conference on European Technology Platforms Vienna, 4 May 2006 Minister Bartenstein, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Europe faces many challenges to...
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Space policy: EU and Russia join forces and sign cooperation agreement
Brussels, 10 March 2006 The EU and Russia are getting closer in space activities. The Head of the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (Roscosmos) Anatoliy Perminov, the Director General of...
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Economic case for research and education spending 'not necessarily the best', says Patten
Brussels, 24 Nov 2004 Chris Patten, the former External Relations Commissioner now Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities, has warned that the economic argument for greater spending on...
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The key to a continent
Africa and the international community recognise that higher education is essential to development. John Rowett explains the Commonwealth's vital role The key to Africa achieving the UN's Millennium...
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The Commission presents its ideas on the future of science and technology in Europe
Brussels, 16 June 2004 The European Commission has today proposed increasing the European Union’s research funding to an average of €10 billion a year for the duration of the next framework...
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EESC Opinion: Life Sciences and Biotechnology
Brussels, 16 July 2003 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, to the Council and to the European Economic and...
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New alternatives to animal tests approved
Brussels, Mar 2006 Six new alternative testing methods that can replace animal tests for certain drugs and chemicals have been developed by the EU's European Centre for the Validation of Alternative...
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Women increase influence in business
British boardrooms may be notoriously male dominated but university business schools are proving more enlightened, with women far more conspicuous at all levels. The Association of Business Schools...
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Breakthrough innovations honoured: European Inventor of the Year awards
03/05/2006 Medical breakthroughs in fighting Hepatitis B, novel anti-viral properties, the DNA chip and methods for intercepting illness causing proteins are among the final winners of the European...
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Alternative testing methods - European research to replace and reduce animal tests, 23 June, Brussels
Brussels, 17 Jun 2004 Brussels, 23 June 2004 WHO? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission In the presence of H.R.H. Prince Laurent of Belgium, President of the Prince Laurent...
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The Commission details its plan for a European Institute of Technology
Brussels, 8 June 2006 Following a wide-ranging consultation of stakeholders and Member States, the Commission today adopted a new Communication fleshing out its plan for the establishment of a...
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Help students to compose themselves
Writing on the Margins