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Media Invitation: Towards the new EU Research Framework Programme 2007-2013 - Brussels, 7 April 2005
WHO? Janez Potocnik, Member of the European Commission Responsible for Science and Research   view more (2005-03-29)

3D Circuits - Changing The Shape Of Things To Come
A 3-D framework of copper interconnection patterns is constructed and then plated in a cheap metal foil. The framework is then placed in the mould cavity of an injection moulding machine and molten thermoplastic resin is forced into the cavity against the plated pattern. After cooling, the foil is chemically removed from the moulding, revealing... view more... (1999-09-29)

EU Funding Helps Improve The Detection of Pesticides in the Environment
The production of more advanced sensors to improve the detection of pesticides in water and other environmental samples has been helped by a grant of almost 1.23 million euro from the EU's Framework Programme.   view more (2005-04-29)

Research Europe 23 May issue: stories on the FP6 compromise, biotech patents, foresight, Flanders, and research cooperation.
Compromise puts FP6 on schedule A compromise agreement on Framework 6 was adopted by the European Parliament last week, following negotiations with the Council of Ministers and the Commission. This averts a clash on ethics and will ensure that Framework starts on time later this year.   view more (2002-05-23)

Commission launches 13 new research projects on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)
A year ago, on 1 December 1997, the Council and the European Parliament approved supplementary funding of ECU 115 million for the Fourth Framework Programme, of which ECU 35 million was earmarked for research on TSE. The 13 new projects, together with the projects from the two previous calls - one from the Agriculture and Fisheries programme and... view more... (1998-12-17)

Research Europe 10 October issue: stories on ERC scenarios, FP6 specific programmes, Info Soc calls, the JRC and French deceptions
Danes propose six ERC scenarios Six scenarios for the creation of a European research council were proposed to policymakers meeting in Copenhagen this week by the Danish presidency of the EU. These range from creating a European version of the US National Science Foundation to closer working by selected national research councils.   view more (2002-10-10)

7th EU R&D Framework Programme - Public Consultation
The Office of Science and Technology has launched a public consultation on the 7th EU R&D Framework Programme. The consultation paper at www.ost.gov.uk/ostinternational/fp7 outlines the key issues and initial Government thinking, and is inviting responses by 26 July. The Framework Programme makes a major contribution to UK science and technology... view more... (2004-05-18)

Metal-organic frameworks feel the pressure of Argonne scientists
Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks (MOF).   view more (2008-09-26)

An INTAS workshop yields approaches to science cooperation with the New Independent States (NIS)
From the 25 to 29 October 2004, INTAS - International Association for Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the Newly Independent States - organized an important workshop, bringing together representatives of the NIS Information Points for INTAS and the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme for Research & Technologies, and... view more... (2004-11-23)

New FP6UK Website Provides One Door Access
The new FP6UK website is up and running giving simple and easy access to help and advice for UK organisations interested in taking advantage of European Union Framework Programme Six (FP6) funding for research and technological development projects. http://fp6uk.ost.gov.uk replaces a range of UK Government-supported websites offering help and... view more... (2004-02-25)

Strengthening marine research in the upcoming EU research programme
Along with Ireland and Portugal, Norway is now working to make marine research a priority focus of the 7th EU Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development (2007-2010). The goal is to develop a vital, beneficial marine and maritime economy in Europe with the help of interdisciplinary research.   view more (2005-01-17)

Research Europe 25 April issue: stories on MEPs and ethics, the neutron drought, Grenoble genomics, research tax and primate facilities.
MEPs warned off FP6 ethics challenge MEPs have been warned that reopening the issue of ethics in Framework 6 will undermine the whole programme. The warning came during three-way negotiations between the Spanish presidency of the EU, MEPs and the Commission last week. The meetings are intended to resolve major differences between the positions of... view more... (2002-04-25)

New Service to Help UK Universities and Businesses Access EU Research and Development Cash
A new Government initiative, FP6UK, was launched today to help UK organisations benefit from European Union funding for research and development projects. The Framework Programme is the EU's main way of providing funding for collaborative research and innovation. It aims to strengthen European research and technological capability and encourage... view more... (2003-11-04)

Molecular fossils uncover link between viruses and the immune system
Researchers from the Viikki Biocenter, University of Helsinki, show that atomic structures can reveal evolutionary history of viruses in a similar fashion as fossils did for the dinosaurs and reptiles. Their article is published in the April 15 issue of Molecular Cell.   view more (2005-04-14)

Research Europe 1 August issue: embryo delays, Commission intelligence, Framework's impact, aerospace R&D and Finnish plans.
Ministers put off embryo decision A final decision on Framework 6's approach to research involving human embryos and embryonic stem cells is likely to be delayed until the end of 2003. However, under a compromise expected to be agreed by EU member states in coming weeks, work on existing stocks of stem cells will be funded up to that date.   view more (2002-08-01)

World Wide Web Consortium Issues XPointer Recommendation
XPointer Gives Extensible Model for Identifying XML Fragments, Improving Precision of Linking Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issues the XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Recommendation - the XPointer Framework, the XPointer element()Scheme, and the XPointer Scheme. The XPointer Framework provides a lightweight extensible model for... view more... (2003-03-25)

Research Europe 6 June issue: ESA, application, evaluation and cost models for FP6, and science in Ireland
ESA restructures science programme The European Space Agency is axing a mission to Venus and restructuring its space science programme with a budget cut of 500 million euros. This is necessary to cope with a refusal by ESA's member states to increase its funding up to 2012. The restructuring was endorsed by ESA's science programme committee last... view more... (2002-06-06)

Third Call for EUR2.3bn EU Funding Opportunity to be Launched
The third Call for proposals under the Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health theme of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will be launched at a free event on 16th June 2004 in the historic setting of Church House, London, hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Medical Research Council. Any organisation... view more... (2004-05-18)

PRESS INVITATION: Britain's troubled freshwaters - the European Union to the rescue?
The British Ecological Society session at the BA Festival of Science, University of Leicester Monday 9 September 2002, 09:30-12:30 and 14:00-17:00, Engineering LT2 The damage caused by August's devastating floods in central Europe will cost Germany alone 15 billion euros to repair. Massive sums of money are also being spent on new weather... view more... (2002-08-31)

Research Europe 21 March issue: stories on ITER and fusion, R&D targets, integrated projects, and funding in Austria.
Hosting ITER would cost 4.8bn euros It would cost Europe 4.824 billion euros to host the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, according to a Commission working document presented to EU research ministers meeting on 11 March. If work begins on ITER during Framework 6 - a possibility, since some partners envisage agreement on the... view more... (2002-03-21)
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