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  • Pay comparisons: Are you paid as much as other professionals?
    [more information] There have been few global comparisons of academic salaries around the world, but new research paints a picture of a profession…

  • Eco-innovation: European Commission publishes new Action Plan
    [more information] The European Commission has launched a new Eco-innovation action plan (“Innovation for a sustainable Future — The…

  • Go8 names European Fellows for 2012
    [more information] Eight early career researchers from Russia, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic have been named as the successful…

  • Open access network for astronomical observations
    [more information] Europeans are supporting efforts to provide free access to scientific data as well as research opportunities via a virtual…

  • How to create a world-class university
    [more information] Although some of the world’s top-ranked institutions such as Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford are hundreds of years old, a series…

  • Plan for one million new research jobs
    [more information] European Union Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn is planning to create one million jobs in research and innovation in Horizon…

  • Space rock passes through satellite belt
    [more information] Astronomers around the world breathed a sigh of relief last Monday night when an asteroid passed within 12,000 kilometres of…

  • Moon dust not what it seems
    [more information] Long-accepted interpretations of lunar dust experiments carried out during the Apollo moon missions in the 1970s have just been…

  • Name that shape! Building blocks for 5D universe
    [more information] An EU-funded team of researchers has set out to provide mathematicians with their very own periodic table ... of shapes.…

  • EU leaders push for stronger innovation and research
    [more information] EU leaders promised at the end of the Council of the European Union summit on 4 February to fuel cooperation on large-scale…

  • Nobel Prize in Physics goes to European Research Council grantee
    [more information] The European Research Council (ERC) announces that one of its grantees, Professor Konstantin Novoselov, has today been awarded…

  • 51 new FP7 calls for proposals launched
    [more information] The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research has published a series of calls for proposals under the…

  • New FET Opportunities for International Cooperation
    [more information] FET-Open has just concluded a survey aimed at collecting information on international research collaboration activities within…

  • Reinforcing Strategic Partnerships: International Cooperation BILAT project, call 2007
    [more information] The BILAT projects will develop and enhance S&T Partnerships with third countries by supportinig activities which will be…

  • CREST report: Internationalisation of R&D
    [more information] This report summarises the results of the work done throughout 2008 by the CREST OMC Working Group on ‘Internationalisation of…

  • EU-Russia research cooperation good but could be better, says report
    [more information] EU-Russia cooperation works well and Russian partners’ contribution to EU-funded projects is highly appreciated by EU

  • Impacts of internationalisation and the research gap
    [more information] Students from Arab countries, and not from China, make up the biggest proportion of people from a region or country studying…

  • Stem cells cure disease
    [more information] Spanish researchers have cured a disease using pseudo-embryonic stem cells for the first time. The team, led by scientists from…

  • European clear advantage for ARC Linkage Projects
    [more information] The recent announcement of successful ARC Linkage Projects for 2009 Round 2 shows a clear competitive advantage for proposals…

  • EU-funded research announces the discovery of a promising drug against tuberculosis
    [more information] The European Commission research funding programmes have been supporting research on tuberculosis for many years. On 19 March…

  • The BIO CIRCLE network
    [more information] Biocircle newsletters
      Issues #2: November 2009 (www.biocircle-project.eu/dnn4/nletupload/Newsletter2_FINAL.pdf) Issues #1:…

  • OECD report urges countries to promote science and innovation
    [more information] The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has published a review of science, technology and innovation…

  • New EU site to attract foreign students
    [more information] The European Commission has launched a new web portal called Study in Europe to promote universities across the EU to students…

  • Vast rise in student mobility
    [more information] More than 2.5 million university students are now estimated to be studying outside their own countries — a 70% increase in the…

  • Making the most of EU health research funding
    [more information] Knowledge-sharing and exploitation of the results of research activities took another huge step forward with the recent…