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DFG has agreed to set up nine new research units in topics ranging from engineering to social sciences. Five of the new groups will be involved in international projects.

A new design of optical fibre network developed in an EU Framework 7 project, was unveiled last week. The design will mean faster networks with a wider reach.

The European aerospace group EADS announced it is to collaborate with scientists at Glasgow University, to work on making the use of solid hydrogen for fuelling planes a commercial proposition.

A total of 52 new research labs and research programmes have been selected to share an investment of Euros 340 million, in the first step of a public research funding bonanza that will pour in Euro 22 billion raised on the bond markets to create an elite cadre of universities in France

The European Commission proposes a joined-up approach to research and innovation, in a move that could have profound implications for European research funding

The UK will contribute funding to the pan-European biosciences infrastructure head-quartered in Cambridge, in order to help provide open access for use in academic and industrial research.

Knowledge transfer association ProTon Europe has elected Pat Frain, the former director of University College Dublin's technology transfer division, as its new Chair.