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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 UK's seven research councils have set out a strategy to internationalise their activities to pull in more researchers from overseas and enable cross country funding of projects.

The Carnegie Corporation of New York renewed its support of measures to improve science teaching is Russia, awarding the US Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) a $1 million grant towards its Basic Research and Higher Education (BRHE) programme.

The European Commission published its strategy for promoting the adoption of mobile television across Europe, setting out requirements for standards, spectrum allocation and regulation to encourage take-up.

Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH, of Martinsried, was awarded a Euro 1 million grant from the German Ministry for Education and Research to develop a technology platform for quantifying interactions between small molecule drugs and proteins in mammalian tissues and cell lines.

ZoBio of Leiden has been selected by pharmaceutical company UCB to provide ligand discovery services for fragment-based drug discovery.