Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A study carried out in the UK suggests that women scientists are more ambitious than their male counterparts, but feel they lack the support and encouragement needed to progress...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A committee of the United Nations has, in a split vote, approved an international declaration calling on countries to ban all forms of human cloning - both reproductive and...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Full text of this notice State aid in favour of Schneider Technologies AG State aid No C 26/2004 (ex NN 38/2004) Invitation to submit comments pursuant to Article 88(2) of the...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Images captured by Europe's Mars Express spacecraft have revealed what could be a frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, just below the surface of the Red Planet,...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 Finland has adopted its position on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) for research, raising concerns about the management of research projects, and proposing a new scheme...
Brussels, 22 Feb 2005 A project financed under the EU's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5) has successfully developed an electronic implant to allow a blind person to recover some vision. In a ground-...
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Reforms will boost vocational training The 鈥済old standards鈥 of A levels and GCSEs will be enhanced to stretch the most able students, and vocational training will be boosted to end the snobbery that...
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 Ever since Alfred Noble announced his plans to establish annual prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine in 1897, there were those in the mathematics community who called for a...
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 A Technology Platform bringing together various stakeholders in the forest-based industry around a common vision for 2030 has been launched. The vision sees Europe's forest...
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 A conference on CO2 capture and storage - 'Towards zero emission power plants' - will take place in Brussels, Belgium, from 13 to 15 April. The event is portrayed as an...
Brussels, 21 Feb 2005 An international conference on the architecture of computing systems will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, from 14 to 17 March. The event programme will encompass the design,...
Paris, 21 Feb 2005 Soon we may be able to fill the bath, turn the lights on and play our favourite CD without moving from our chair or pressing a button. Technology, developed by ESA for European...
Scrap A levels, says Cambridge Cambridge University added its voice to demands for the abolition of A levels yesterday after figures showed that it rejected more than 5,000 students with top grades...
Brussels, 18 Feb 2005 Full text of Document 218/05 Su ite of documents 218/05 Attached is the abovementioned Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels on 14 February 2005 by Spain and on 16...