Brussels, 02 Jun 2004 On 12-13 May 2004 in Berlin, university scientists and industrial representatives gathered to exchange views and plot the way forward in aeronautical research. The workshop,...
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week set out the largest sustained increase in science spending for a generation, yet research leaders warned there would be very little money left over for new research...
Bruxelles, le 24 June 2003 Today in Paris, European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin presented the main results of the consultation on the Green Paper on European Space Policy, launched on...
Want strong, solvent universities? Cut their dependence on the public purse, says Patrick Dowling The government wishes to establish a sound financial framework for our universities. Lowering the...
Nantes, 20 May 2005 Minister Fillon, Mr Ayrault, Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome the opportunity to speak to you in the closing session of this conference on networking and clustering - important...
Brussels, 16 Jun 2004 WHO? Philippe BUSQUIN, European Commissioner for Research Feike SIJBESMA (NL), President of EuropaBio Andrzej LEGOCKI (PL), President of the Polish Academy of Sciences WHAT?...
Brussels, 01 Jun 2004 Cooperation between Italy's National Research Council (CNR) and the UK's Council for Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC), which was first forged 20 years ago, is...
Brussels, 24 May 2004 The UK Government has announced that it is to establish a national centre for research into the 3Rs of animal experiments - replacement, refinement and reduction. Accompanying...
Brussels, 14 Jul 2005 'Concentrating our efforts in Europe on knowledge has no real alternative. I do not underestimate the problems that we currently face,' concluded EU Commissioner for Science and...
The article "Business will pay if courses meet needs" ( THES, March 28) bears little relevance to the accompanying photograph of student engineers with a racing car they built in six months as part...
The government's skills strategy came under fire this week as figures revealed that success rates among students on modern apprenticeship programmes have in some cases fallen to as low as 16 per cent...
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Brussels, 28 Jan 2005 A communication from the European Commission has called for the 'constantly decreasing relative priority given to environmental and energy research' to be reconsidered. The 2004...
Brussels, 13 Jun 2003 Research carried out by the environmental group WWF and Fuel Cell Europe (FCEu) has shown that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from European fossil fuel power generation could be...
Excessive bureaucracy in Regional Development Agencies is threatening to slow down knowledge transfer, universities warned the Lords science and technology committee this week. The government's white...