Innovation scoreboard: Mixed results
Brussels, 12 January 2006 The fifth edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard reveals that Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Germany and Denmark are the European innovation leaders. Most of the new...
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Working Document on Energy efficiency or doing more with less - Green Paper Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (link)
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 WORKING DOCUMENT on Energy efficiency or doing more with less - Green Paper Committee on Industry, Research and Energy Rapporteur: Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca 15.12.2005 Full text...
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Can renewables avert an energy crisis?
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 The depression of the 1930s spawned the phrase, 'When America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold'. Today, in a more interconnected and interdependent world, economic...
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Five EU countries contribute to 22 million acre global increase in biotech crops
Brussels, 12 Jan 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...
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Czech Academy proposes new structure for ERC
Brussels, 12 Jan 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...
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Forests may confound Kyoto Protocol
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 Methane is a known greenhouse gas, with 32 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and it plays a role in atmospheric oxidation chemistry as well as affecting...
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Agricultural engineering in the context of European research, Brussels
Brussels, 12 Jan 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,...
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Comet dust brought back to Earth: paving the way for Rosetta
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 Scientists around the world eagerly await the arrival of sample particles from Comet Wild 2, which are being brought back to Earth by the US Stardust spacecraft on 15 January this...
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Satellites see largest jet of particles created between Sun and Earth
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 A flotilla of space-weather satellites – ESA's Cluster and NASA's ACE and Wind - observed for the first time steady large-scale jets of charged particles in the solar...
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ESA and ANU make space propulsion breakthrough
Paris, 12 Jan 2006 The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present...
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Amendments 12-42 for the Draft report by Britta Thomsen on the Proposed Decision concerning the seventh framework programme (link)
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 AMENDMENTS 12-42 Draft report Britta Thomsen (PE 365.013v01-00) Proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the seventh framework programme...
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Draft Opinion on the Proposed Decision concerning the seventh framework programme (link)
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 PROVISIONAL 2005/0043(COD) 20.12.2005 DRAFT OPINION of the Committee on Budgets for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy on the proposal for a decision of the European...
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Amendments 12-36 for the Draft Opinion by Thijs Berman on the Seventh framework programme (link)
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 AMENDMENTS 12-36 Draft opinion Thijs Berman (PE 360.245v01-00) Seventh framework programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration...
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Amendements 8-55 Projet d'avis Alyn Smith Septième programme-cadre de la Communauté européenne (link)
Brussels, 12 Jan 2006 AMENDEMENTS 8-55 Projet d'avis Alyn Smith (PE 364.956v01-00) Septième programme-cadre de la Communauté européenne pour des activités...
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Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party: agenda (agreement with Switzerland) - 12 January
Brussels, 12 January 2006 Full text of Document 70/06 dated: 26 December 2005 Subject: Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party Date: Thursday 12 January 2006 (10h00) Venue: COUNCIL...