European Union

A new database is designed to boost cooperation between researchers across the European Union and eastern Europe.

An EU project to develop a new computer-aided system for the early phase of aircraft design has begun under the leadership of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

The European Commission has laid out a new strategy for financing the parlous Galileo global positioning system and getting the European Institute of Technology off the ground.

The League of European Research Universities says the Commission’s recently published Green Paper on the European Research Area lacks vision and builds too strongly on the existing framework.

Europe’s 36 national computing grids are hatching plans to link up their networks and support the set-up and initiation of new grid initiatives.

France is ready to break a linguistic obstacle that has for decades burdened patent applicants wanting to use their inventions across Europe.

The EU industry body for bioindustries has responded to the energy and climate change package currently under discussion in the European Parliament.

The European Science Foundation has managed to preserve its contract to manage COST, (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) under the Seventh Framework Programme, agreeing a Euro 210 million deal with the European Commission.

The European Commission has authorized the Euro120 million that Germany intends to grant to start THESEUS, a research project for developing and testing new search technologies for the next generation Internet.

GM crop bans have compromised arable farmers and plant research in Europe. Now the speed of GM adoption elsewhere is threatening Europe’s livestock agriculture too.