Two of the nominees at the recent European Inventor of the Year Awards were inspired by personal experiences. The winner of the SME Research category devoted himself to creating a more effective eye scanning machine after his young son went blind …

The Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF 2008) will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from 18 to 22 July. ESOF 2008 is expected to attract some 4,000 scientists, researchers, students, decision makers and business people. Key themes to be addressed by renowned …

An international study has now drawn a link between large brown seaweed and the coastal climate in seaweed-rich regions. According to the scientists, brown algae of the Laminariales (kelps) release inorganic iodine into the atmosphere when under …

The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Toulouse School of Economics are organising a conference on 'Knowledge for growth - European strategies in the global economy' from 7 to 9 July in Toulouse, France.The …

Since the 18th century, several arsenic compounds have been used as medicines, including arsenic trioxide (ATO) which is commonly prescribed in the treatment of certain types of cancer. Although they prove to be effective, no one knows how these …

În perioada 9 - 10 mai 2008, Asociaţia Divers, Centrul Regional PER, Fundaţia Alpha Transilvană, Fundaţia Global Care România, Fundaţia Rheum Care, Institutul Est European de Sănătate a Reproducerii organizează Târgul organizaţiilor neguvernamentale „Împreună pentru comunitate”, ediţia a 6-a, având ca tematică centrală promovarea interculturalităţii prin implicarea civică a cetăţenilor în viaţa comunităţii locale multiculturale.

Eurofinantari, companie ce ofera consultanta partenerilor publici si privati in managementul proiectelor cu finantare europeana, va invita sa participati la sesiunea de pregatire „Fondurile Europene pe intelesul tuturor”, organizata in Bucuresti, in perioada 24-25 mai 2008.
Trainingul va consta in 3 module*, ce vor aborda din ce in ce mai detaliat problematica asociata accesarii fondurilor structurale de catre partenerii din mediul public sau privat.

Sporting enthusiasts are not the only people who will be following the performance of athletes at this year's Olympic Games in Beijing, China. Scientists from the EU-funded GA2LEN (Global Allergy and Asthma European Network) project will also …

The European Commission has published a call for proposals for research infrastructures under the 'Capacities' section of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).The call addresses the information and communications technologies- (ICT-) …

Work done within the European Space Agency's GlobColour project now contributes significantly to ocean carbon cycle research. ESA merged 55 terabytes of data to produce a ten-year dataset of global ocean colour stretching to 2007, providing …

The kick-off conference of the European Development Cooperation to 2020 (EDC2020) project will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 June.The project, funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), will investigate emerging issues relating …

Severe weather conditions, like thunder and lightning storms, are constant reminders to us of the powerful and sometimes unpredictable force of nature. A team of French and German scientists are helping to shed light on these weather elements. For …

Ministerul Dezvoltării, Lucrărilor Publice şi Locuinţelor lansează cererea deschisă de proiecte pentru axa prioritară 5 “Dezvoltarea durabilă şi promovarea turismului” a REGIO-Programul Operaţional Regional, domeniul major de intervenţie 5.1 – „Restaurarea şi valorificarea durabilă a patrimoniului cultural, precum şi crearea/modernizarea infrastructurilor conexe”.

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