Science|Business Reporting

Stakeholders from national bodies, social partners and industry met up this week to consider how best to implement the European Qualifications Framework.

The Joint Technology Initiative on fuel cells and hydrogen now has the go-ahead from the Commission, with the first call for proposals expected later in the year.

On current growth rates China will overtake the US to become the world’s largest patent filing jurisdiction by 2012, according to market analysts Evalueserve.

Four of the UK’s Research Councils have come together to invest £890,000 in new projects designed to rapidly build the expertise and capacity in the emerging field of synthetic biology.

The Commission will not object to France fudning a programme on personal management of multimedia data for the internet and mobile telephony.

Research institutions and companies in Estonia can now apply for national support in preparing projects and submitting bids for EU-funded research programmes, including reimbursement of VAT costs.