With universities literally pushing the envelope in the competition for students, everything from stationery to basketball is fair game, Stephen Phillips finds. Postmodern theory may be a useful tool...
Brussels, 28 May 2004 Presenting the future of the EU information and communication technology (ICT) research agenda to an audience of Finnish ICT experts on 26 May, Khalil Rouhana, acting Head of...
...for tomorrow thinness may be out of vogue. While modern societies see fatness as undesirable, many past cultures considered it a virtue. What drives our attitudes? asks Felipe Fernández-Armesto In...
Brussels, 29 July 2003 Commission Recommendation of 23 July 2003 on guidelines for the development of national strategies and best practices to ensure the coexistence of genetically modified crops...
Brussels, 26 Jun 2003 The work of the new European road transport research advisory council (ERTRAC) got underway on 25 June when all members came together for the first time in Brussels. EU Research...
Brussels, 06 Apr 2004 The EU 'trust in food' project, funded under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), has published the results of a study showing that Europeans' trust in processed-food, meat and...
Brussels, Apr 2005 Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding declared herself surprised but very pleased that female innovators stole the limelight at the 2005 Information Society...
Brussels, 01 Apr 2004 Finally, a faster way to find research stories and information on Europa, the Commission's web service. After many months of preparation and with greater emphasis on...
Brussels, 31 Oct 2003 The scientific community in Sweden is calling for a change of direction in government research policy, prompted by fears that the country is losing ground on its international...
Brussels, 31 Oct 2003 The scientific community in Sweden is calling for a change of direction in government research policy, prompted by fears that the country is losing ground on its international...
Brussels, 18 Sep 2003 In an attempt to offer a cleaner and more cost effective alternative to traditional methods of dying fabric, a project funded by EUREKA has developed a method that uses...
Paris, 12 Jun 2003 Philippe BUSQUIN, European Commissioner responsible for research and space Antonio RODOTÀ, Director General, European Space Agency Claudie HAIGNERÉ, Minister for research and new...
Paris, 17 May 2002 The experimental ion propulsion system designed to test a new form of technology for station-keeping on future satellites is performing well in its new role to get ESA's Artemis to...
Brussels, 17 Sep 2003 Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's main economic development agency, has established three new research funding bodies whose mission is to raise the standard of private sector...
Brussels, 12 May 2004 The European Commission today adopted an EU strategy to help Europe to become world leader in the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology the science of the infinitely small...