Stakes high for EU science plans
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Europe must make good on plans to set up an independent funding body for science or face an unprecedented brain drain, a leading scientist has warned.
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European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy set out his plan for a single approach to patents across the European Union on Thursday, ahead of an Oct. 12 vote on the matter in the European Parliament, winning plaudits from some erstwhile opponents.
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The race is on to get Europe's giant new particle accelerator facility ready for a 2007 deadline.
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Several influential EU states have dug  in their heels on whether their farmers may grow one of  Europe&#39;s oldest genetically modified (GMO) crops, raising the  stakes in the EU&#39;s long-running stalemate over biotech policy.
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The public needs to have greater say in scientific decision-making, the British Association leader says.
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Investing â¬1bn in research The European Commission has announced that it is to invest more than â¬1bn on research into new technologies that can improve the lives of older people.â¦
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Europe launches its 50.5bn-euro (Â£33bn) programme for research and technological development.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Union will provide a sizeable amount of money to research groups this year as part of a multiyear program to spur research in new information and communications technologies. More than 2,000 ICT researchers met Thursday in Cologne, Germany, to learn how they can participate in the E.U.'s 7th Framework Program for research and development, with a budget of â¬50 billion ($65 billion) through 2013. ICT research accounts for the lion's share of the framework budget at â¬9.1 billion, with â¬1.2 billion to be allocated this year. The E.U. is keen to fund research in areas where the region has a technological edge, including communications, software systems, networked media, and embedded systems. The European government also hopes to speed innovation in areas where companies in the region could gain a competitive edge, such as next-generation Internet technology. Early E.U. investment in digital mobile communications, the Brussels government is quick to point out, led to the development and worldwide adoption of the GSM standard, the most widely used mobile phone system in the world. Research organizations across Europe are encouraged to establish a research priority, form a consortium, and apply for funding. The E.U., which launched a call for proposals on Dec. 22, will accept proposals through May 8. While researchers team up in Cologne, other partnerships are already taking shape in the ICT area. Under aÂ new strategy for funding technology research announced in November, the E.U. has agreed to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership. The plan calls for technology companies and research institutes to marry their own R&DÂ investments with additional funds from the member states and the E.U. through new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTI). The first JTI, called Artemis, is focused on embedded systems, an area signaled by European ministers as being of strategic importance for Europe's economy. European industry's own research investment in this area is estimated at around â¬15 billion to â¬20 billion per year. Â
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Grants aim to accelerate European research into business applications of shared computing.
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It is unlikely that global temperature rise can be kept below the EU's target of 2C, a leading climate scientist says.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 23 (IPS) - Fresh challenges and opportunities for EU  development policy will be explored at a critical meeting next  week.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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The European Union is in danger of extending beyond its proper geographical and cultural limits. Frankly, this title is misleading.
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Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presented a plan backed by his software company in cooperation with European science bodies to create a network of elite research centres.
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The US National Institutes of Health invests $28bn annually in research. European spending is lower, although the European Union is closing the gap, helped by a shortsighted American policy of &quot;flatlining&quot; many scientific research budgets. (Perhaps this is because scientists have an annoying tendency to discuss things that conflict with the Bush administration&#39;s view of reality, such as global warming, evolution, the insufficiency of the New Orleans levee system and the medical potential of stem cells.)
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A new strategy for funding technology research in the European Union calls for the E.U. to pool its vast resources with those from private industry and individual member states in a public-private partnership.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Europe unveiled a "road map" to a low-carbon future Wednesday â one of the most radical packages the European Union has ever produced â in an effort to position the bloc at the vanguard of global efforts on climate change.