Brown says v-cs are key to success of economy
Effective leadership from vice-chancellors is vital if UK universities are to be world leaders, the chancellor said this week, writes Paul Hill. Speaking at the launch of the Leadership Foundation...
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Maniac dons offered cycle-safety lessons Oxford University, stung by complaints from pedestrians, is offering its 12,000 staff, a quarter of whom cycle, free places on a cycle safety course. Gillian...
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First European semantic web symposium - ESWS 2004
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 The first ever European semantic web symposium (ESWS 2004) will be held in Heraklion in Crete, Greece, from 10 to 12 May. The semantic web is described by the World Wide Web...
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Mouth of the mighty Yangtze
Paris, 25 Mar 2004 Satellite photograph High resolution satellite photograph The coloured waters shown here in this 23 March Envisat Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image have...
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Commission targeting innovative SMEs to take up EUR 2.2 billion worth of European research funding
Brussels, 25 March 2004 At a seminar in Brussels on March 24-26 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will present the EU funded DETECT-it project, that will help small and medium-sized...
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Commissioner Erkki Liikanen: "EU-India Opportunities: The IST Programme", 2004 Euro India Co-operation Forum on the Information Society, New Delhi, 25 March 2004
The political environment for research In Europe, we want to become a more competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy. To achieve this, we need to focus on European-wide investment in research...
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EMBO's fellowship of the molecular biologists
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 Thanks to a moderate hike in its budget, the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) will be able to expand its fellowship and 'science and society' actions to non-EU...
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Workshop promotes joint EU-China participation in FP6
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A workshop on the scientific, technological and societal aspects of multifunctional materials in Bologna, Italy highlighted growing research collaboration between the EU and...
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Natural whey to produce packaging plastics
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 Dairy industry waste is a potential source of biologically-produced polymers with commercial applications in packaging. WHEYPOL is seeking a cost-effective method to tap this...
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Severe nuclear accident network to upgrade accident prediction and prevention
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A year into the Sixth Framework Programme, in 2003, the Commission's coordinator for nuclear reactor safety research, Georges Van Goethem, spoke to CORDIS News of a real need...
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From the information society to the knowledge society
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 The European Commission is funding an Integrated Project that aims to revolutionise the way in which information is stored and accessed, leading to the creation of a knowledge...
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The efficient management of production cycles
Brussels, 25 Mar 2004 A conference on process automation and control for the efficient management of production cycles will take place at the Milan Fair in Italy on 14 and 15 September. The event...
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New Member States at ESA
Paris, 25 Mar 2004 In the course of its meeting in Kiruna (Sweden) on 24 and 25 March, the ESA Council approved the accession of Greece and Luxembourg to the ESA Convention. The two countries are...
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The roisterer of Tahiti with sin in his stroke
Gauguin - Gauguin Tahiti - The Way to Paradise - Edouard Vuillard
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a love story twice adapted for the opera: "I must begin by taking my reader back to the time in my...