The University of Warwick has been awarded £1 million by The Leverhulme Trust to bridge the gap between mathematical and social sciences with a new doctoral scholarship programme.
The project aims to bring together researchers, engineers, people from industry and young students and to encourage them to come up with new ideas that are useful for society, says Markus Nordberg of CERN
There are grounds for cautious optimism as member states propose to make an exception for R&D, and an MEP involved in drafting the data protection bill says the new law will not be allowed to hamper research
Europe’s carbon market is not dead in the water, but rather a work in progress, says Andreas Loeschel, who advises Chancellor Angela Merkel on overhauling Germany’s energy mix
Ann Mettler, founder of the Lisbon Council think-tank, will take up her post at the helm of the new European Strategic Policy Centre. Staff at the defunct BEPA service had been told to re-apply for their jobs
Interest in the beautiful game did not flow naturally for Pablo Rodriguez, Telefónica’s Director of Research and Innovation. Until he realised how it all looked a lot like computers
Three University of Cambridge projects have been selected as winners in GSK’s 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge, which is designed to accelerate the translation of academic research into novel therapies.
A research partnership focused on Automotive Cyber Security Research has been set up by global information assurance specialist NCC Group and WMG, at the University of Warwick.
The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) has succeeded for the first time in describing the complex relationships within an ecosystem in unprecedented detail. For their work, carried out in collaboration with US and Luxembourg partners, their model ecosystem was a “biological wastewater treatment plant”.
UCL is to build a new second campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to form part of a wider Education and Cultural Quarter following the government's announcement of £141m in support of the project.
Science|Business reveals member states’ bids for education projects they want to see funded under the EU’s new €315B Fund for Strategic Investment, unveiled last week
Thanks to the renewal of the cooperation agreement between the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), the fourth excavation campaign in Tol-e Ajori’s site, near Persepolis, has been carried out.
Europe is determined to lead the world in the shift to green energy. A key policy goal in the European Commission’s 2050 Energy Roadmap is an electricity system based nearly entirely on renewable energy sources. From fields of windmills in Scotland to solar panel installations across Spain, billions of euros in public and private investment over the past 15 years have kick-started the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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