«Brussels in Brief - Interface Europe’s Newsletter» - November 2011

General EU Information
- European Parliament
  
  2011-11-14 - 2011-11-17 - Plenary Session - Strasbourg
  
  Parliament's sympathy with the victims of the latest earthquake in Turkey and floods in Italy and France, political developments in North Africa and the Western Balkans, and Wednesday's key debate on the Eurogroup and economic governance, were highlighted by EP President Jerzy Buzek at the opening of the Strasbourg session. Mr Buzek also looked ahead to Parliament's high-level human rights conference on 23 November.
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  2011-11-30 - 2011-12-01 - Plenary Session - Strasbourg
  
  Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek, greeted visiting human rights defenders from Yemen, reported on his visit to Turkey the previous week, and commented on the recent elections in Egypt and Morocco in his opening address at this week's Brussels plenary part-session.
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EU policies and funding programmes for Research, Innovation, Training and Competitiveness
- Research Policy
  - General points
    
    2011-11-23 - Study proposes programme to help keep elderly in work
    
    One of the biggest challenges facing Europeans is how the number of people able to provide for the ageing population is shrinking. A new study led by the University of Gothenburg in Sweden shows how the situation is further exacerbated by the fact that 25% of managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) expect to retire by 2016, resulting in the closure of a company in 1 in 10 cases. The findings, which provide insight into what measures must be implemented to help retain the elderly in the labour market, are an outcome of the BEST AGERS project, supported under the EU's Baltic Sea Region Programme to the tune of EUR 4.4 million.
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  - European Research & Innovation projects
    - ICT
      
      2011-11-10 - European researchers drive semiconductor technology
      Europeans continue to rise to the challenge of advancing communication, imaging and radar integrated circuits (IC) to work at high frequencies. A case in point is a team at Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum Vzw (imec) in Belgium; they recently presented the device 'fT/fMAX 245/450 GHz SiGe:C heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT)'. This sophisticated device will help facilitate future high-volume millimetre-wave low-power circuits to be used in automotive radar applications. The study was funded in part by the DOTFIVE ('Towards 0.5 terahertz silicon/germanium hetero-junction bipolar technology') project, which received EUR 9.7 million under the 'Information and communication technologies' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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      2011-11-14 - New EU-funded project ups power electronics efficiency
      Researchers from Belgium, Germany, Italy, Austria and Slovakia are coming together to launch a brand-new EU-funded project that aims to make more compact and more powerful energy converters for use in information and communication technology (ICT) and solar inverter technology. The HIPOSWITCH (' GaN-based normally-off high power switching transistor for efficient power converters') project, which received a EUR 3 578 938 funding boost as part of the ICT Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), will cover the whole value added chain, from power device development to industrial application.
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      2011-11-15 - Science and business ready to innovate
      Researchers and industry actors have teamed up to drive innovation and build the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in Europe. The brainchild of the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), Institut Telecom in France and Sirris in Belgium, CREATOR will transform ICT research and development (R&D) into real, customised innovations in the market and forge industrial partnerships on a global level.
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      2011-11-17 - Researchers spotlight global corporate control
      The control network structure of multinational companies impacts market competition as well as financial stability on a global level. Researchers in Switzerland investigated the architecture of the international ownership network, as well as the computation of the control held by each global player. Their results, published in the journal PLoS ONE, show that multinational companies are part of a huge 'bow-tie' structure, and that a large piece of the control pie is maintained by a small yet tight 'core' of financial institutions. The researchers call this core an economic 'superentity'. The study was funded in part by the FOC-II ('Forecasting financial crises') project, which is backed with almost EUR 1.9 million under the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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      2011-11-29 - EU-funded aerospace and defence systems project takes flight
      The European Commission is taking part in a new project that aims to develop a new model-based software development framework for complex real-time aerospace and defence systems. Together with leading European real-time technology developers, industrial manufacturers and research organisations from France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, the European Commission will be involved in the 'Model-based methods and tools for avionics and surveillance embedded systems' (MADES) project until July 2012. The European Commission has partly funded the project to the tune of EUR 2 450 000 under the 'Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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    - Health
      
      2011-11-03 - Ageing: study shows active life leads to more quality years
      A new study from Swedish researchers has shown that regular physical activity is associated with a lower risk of suffering depression in old age. Writing in the journal Health Psychology, the team from the University of Gothenburg explain how their findings show that self-determined motivation and perceived competence are important factors in persuading elderly people to exercise more. The findings are based on a study of 17,500 elderly people with an average age of 64 from across Europe. The data come from the large EU-funded population study SHARE ('Survey of health, ageing and retirement'), which was initially funded in part by EUR 2 758 630 under the 'Quality of life and management of living resources' Thematic area of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme (FP5).
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      2011-11-03 - Stress code in the spotlight
      Researchers at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom have identified a specific protein generated by the brain in response to stress. Their findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), could help boost our understanding of stress-related psychiatric diseases in people, particularly in knowing how the human brain deals with stress and how it eases its impact. The study was funded in part by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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      2011-11-07 - Seclusion in young offenders' institutions - only as a last resort, say staff
      Researchers working on a study of young offenders' institutions in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and the United Kingdom have found that secluding young offenders with psychiatric disorders after an aggressive incident is always a last-resort option for the staff responsible for their welfare. The study focused on forensic units ranging from 8 to 12 beds, treating young offenders with problems such as severe mental health disorders, delinquent, violent and non-compliant behaviour and impulse control problems.
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      2011-11-08 - Binge drinking more common in northern Europe
      The relationship between drinking and damage to one's health is stronger in the Baltic countries and Sweden than in Italy, new research from Europe shows. The findings, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, suggest that the northern part of Europe tends to report higher alcohol-harm relationships because of a stronger propensity to indulge in heavy episodic drinking, what experts label 'binge drinking'.
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      2011-11-09 - Role of stem cells in mammary gland development
      A European team of scientists has identified new populations of breast stem cells that guarantee the creation, expansion and maintenance of the diverse cell lineages of the mammary gland during pregnancy and throughout life. Presented in the journal Nature, the study was funded in part by CANCERSTEM ("Stem cells in epithelial cancer initiation and growth"), a project that received a European Research Council Starting Grant worth EUR 1.6 million under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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      2011-11-14 - World Diabetes Day: EU-funded researchers work to meet global challenge
      World Diabetes Day is the leading global awareness campaign for this chronic disorder, held on 14 November each year. More than 346 million people have diabetes, and over 80% of deaths related to this disease occur in low- and middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). In Europe, diabetes currently affects around 30 million people and this is only set to rise further, with 10 per cent of the continent's population expected to be suffering from the disease by 2025. Type 2 diabetes, in particular, is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide and contributes to the development of coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease and end-stage renal disease. Projections are grim: more than 900 million people are expected to be diagnosed with or at high risk of type 2 diabetes within the next two decades. Not only does this impact the lives of those who suffer, but it also puts pressure on the global health system. European researchers and the EU are hard at work to find and develop better treatment options, and raise awareness about this chronic disease. The following is just a glimpse of what Europeans are doing to help those who need it most.
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      2011-11-15 - More accurate treatment for burns victims thanks to new smartphone app
      A former soldier has created a smartphone application that could see burns victims around the world get better and more effective treatment. After serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Chris Seaton from the United Kingdom took up studies in Computer Science at Manchester University where he developed the iPhone and iPad application - or 'app' as it is more commonly known. When it comes to a burns injury, survival hinges on taking the correct amount of fluids, and doctors usually have to make a quick series of calculations to assess what the ideal amount of fluid should be for each particular case. However, this method can be time consuming as well as having a high margin of error.
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      2011-11-15 - DNA repair process and the cancer challenge
      Cancer researchers have identified how recombination, a key DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) repair process by which genetic material is broken down and joined to other genetic material, has the ability to self-correct and enable DNA to start anew. Published in the journal Nature, the results of the study could help improve our knowledge about basic cancer biology and lead to better and more effective cancer therapies. The study was funded in part the GENINTEG ('Controlling gene integration: a requisite for genome analysis and gene therapy') project, which clinched a EUR 1.85 million grant under the 'Life sciences, genomics and biotechnology for health' Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
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      2011-11-16 - EU-funded researchers use yeast to help piece together human genome sequence jigsaw
      Using yeast as a model, a team of Spanish researchers has made predictions about how individuals differ from one another by analysing genome sequences. Their study received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant worth EUR 1.1 million under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Writing in the journal Nature Genetics, the researchers emphasise that their findings have important implications for the future of personalised medicine. If scientists can better understand which genes are important to a particular process, it is easier to make accurate predictions about an individual's biological make-up.
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      2011-11-17 - Scientists investigate how genetic factors influence depression
      French researchers have been investigating the amygdala, a part of the brain that is hyperactive in individuals who suffer from anxiety and depression, and have found that genetic factors have an influence on patient's cerebral activity. Although scientists have long known that anxiety and depression are caused by psychological and environmental factors, and are often influenced by genetic factors too, it remains unclear just how much each factor affects the onset of anxious and depressive symptoms. Writing in the journal Human Brain Mapping, the team shows that the brain's activity can be modulated depending on the subject's genetic makeup, personal history and cognition. Their findings suggest that the effects of psychotherapies on the cerebral activity of patients could vary according to their genetic traits.
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      2011-11-18 - Why do children born prematurely struggle more at maths? Researchers are on the case!
      Researchers in the United Kingdom are set to start work on a study into the relationship between premature birth and mathematical aptitude later on. The team will analyse 160 schoolchildren from London and the Midlands to see whether there exists any clear link between when they were born and how well they are doing in maths. Of the children involved in the test, all aged between 8 and 10, half were born more than 8 weeks early and half were born at full term. A psychologist, who doesn't know which children were born when, will visit each child individually to assess their learning and maths skills.
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      2011-11-18 - Stronger EU-EECA ties in the pipeline
      Fostering stronger health research relations between the EU and the Eastern European and Central Asian countries (EECA) is high on the European agenda. Helping drive this effort is the EECALINK ('Promotion and facilitation of international cooperation with EECA') project, which is funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 600 000. EECALINK is targeting three key stakeholders: policymakers, university and academic partners, and the wider research public. Ultimately, six aims and objectives constitute the basis of this project: 1) encouraging and promoting global cooperation in the health sector; 2) stimulating further development of research groups and supporting them in their FP7 project proposals; 3) guaranteeing effective communication of EU-EECA joint research to key policymakers; 4) strengthening and expanding existing research ties with academic partners; 5) building academic and university participation in FP7 projects; and 6) promoting FP7 to industry and academia.
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      2011-11-22 - Scientists find link between heart ruptures and heart attacks
      Scientists in Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States have identified a single protein called the CaM kinase that plays a role in the biochemical cascade that triggers a cardiac rupture. The findings shed light on how blocking the biochemical processes kick-started by the aldosterone hormone could prevent cardiac ruptures once a heart attack happens. The study, presented in the journal Nature Medicine, was funded in part by the MEDIA ('The metabolic road to diastolic heart failure') project, which is backed with almost EUR 12 million under the 'Health' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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      2011-11-22 - The bacteria challenge: how infants are better protected
      A Danish-Sino team of researchers has discovered that infants are at a lower risk of developing allergic disease at an older age when they encounter various bacteria during their pea-size period. Presented in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the findings suggest that novel factors are influencing modern lifestyle diseases. Allergies, what experts call oversensitivity disease, impact around a quarter of the Danish population. The number of cases keeps rising. This latest study sheds new light on why bacteria could prove beneficial during infancy.
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      2011-11-23 - Hidden risk of accidental paracetamol overdose, warn scientists
      New findings from a team of Scottish researchers have shown that taking too much paracetamol on a regular basis puts patients at high risk of an accidental overdose. The study, published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, highlights the hidden risks from 'staggered' consumption of the over-the-counter painkiller. The team, made up of experts from the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Liver Transplantation Unit, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, warn that although the danger is difficult to pinpoint, taking a little bit more paracetamol than you should when in pain can lead to an overdose.
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      2011-11-24 - New EU-funded project to improve health research and education in Africa
      A new platform for improving health research and education in Africa has just been set up by the European Commission. Researchers involved in this project hail from Belgium, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Mali, Spain, and Switzerland. Titled 'AFRICA BUILD', the project aims to set up excellence centres supported by advanced information and communications technologies (ICT) with the overall aim of building research networks between cooperative health projects based in Africa. The project is funded in part with almost EUR 2 000 000 as part of the 'Building sustainable capacity for research for health in Africa' sub-programme of the Seventh Framework Programme's (FP7) 'Health' Theme. From August 2011, AFRICA BUILD partners have been laying the groundwork for setting up these sustainable networks of health researchers, educators and workers.
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      2011-11-24 - How much salt is enough? Researchers say we need to think again!
      We are all familiar with the health warnings that tell us to reduce our salt intake if we want a happy heart. But now, new findings from an international team of researchers suggest that having either excessively high or low levels of salt can put people who suffer from conditions such as heart disease or diabetes more at risk of cardiovascular problems. Researchers from Canada, Germany, Ireland, the Philippines and the United Kingdom contributed to the study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The findings could call into question how we view the relationship between salt and heart problems.
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      2011-11-24 - Scientists find link between vascular endothelial growth factor and skin cancer stem cell regulation
      Identifying how cancer stem cells and tumour growth are regulated is one of the biggest challenges oncology scientists face. Researchers in Belgium, in cooperation with German colleagues, have recently shed new light on how vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is instrumental in regulating skin cancer stem cells. The study, presented in the journal Nature, was funded in part by a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant of EUR 1.6 million under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to support the CANCERSTEM (Stem cells in epithelial cancer initiation and growth') project . The findings reveal a dual role for the molecule VEGF in the promotion of skin cancer stem cell growth and tumour progression, which may have significant implications for the prevention and treatment of various skin cancers.
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      2011-11-25 - Scientists discover how playing music alters how the brain processes multiple sensory stimuli
      It has long been established that pianists develop a particularly acute sense of the temporal correlation between the movements of the piano keys and the sound of the notes played. However, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany have discovered that when it comes to assessing the synchronicity of lip movements and speech, pianists are no better at the task than their tone-deaf, non-musician counterparts.
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      2011-11-25 - Eat fish young and keep wheezing at bay: study
      New research from Sweden shows how children who consumed fish before nine months of age have a lower risk of suffering from pre-school wheeze. This may change, however, if they were treated with broad spectrum antibiotics in the first week of life or if their mother ingested paracetamol while pregnant. The study will be published in the journal Acta Paediatrica in December.
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      2011-11-30 - Mediterranean diet key to undisturbed sleep, researchers say!
      Greek researchers have outlined how following a Mediterranean diet and keeping active can help improve some of the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS). OSAS is a sleeping disorder characterised by abnormal pauses in breathing or instances of abnormally low breathing during sleep. Each pause in breathing - an apnoea, can last anything from a few seconds to a few minutes and may occur 5 to 30 times or more in an hour. OSAS is one of the most common sleep-related breathing disorders, with approximately 2% to 4% of adults suffering from the condition. Obesity significantly increases our chances of developing the disorder, and doctors often advise losing weight as a means of combating it.
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    - Environment
      
      2011-11-04 - Ancient mammal species felt the human blow, study suggests
      An international team of scientists led by the University of Copenhagen in Denmark suggests that anthropogenic activity and climate change played havoc on the genetic history of 6 large herbivores, potentially triggering the extinction or near extinction of large mammal populations within the last 10,000 years. The findings, published in the journal Nature, help piece together the puzzle on the possible fates of living mammal species as Earth continues to deal with global warming.
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      2011-11-04 - Remnants discovery sheds light on landslide activity
      Scientists in Denmark and the United Kingdom have unearthed the remnants of the world's best preserved examples of a massive ancient landslide in Spain. Their finding, presented in the journal Geology, gives volcanologists the information they need to determine when the landslide occurred following a large volcanic eruption on the Canarian island of Tenerife. Scientists welcome the news because little information is known about why such landslides occur.
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      2011-11-07 - Marine and land species on the move in the face of climate change
      An international team of scientists has found that organisms either adapt or move to track changes in environments, in both space and time, in order to fight climate change. Presented in the journal Science, the study, focused on ocean warming, shows how climate change is adjusting the average annual and seasonal temperatures on land and water, and is potentially affecting the coastal ecology of Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.
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      2011-11-09 - Pollution disrupts tropical forests' nitrogen cycle
      Anthropogenic activities play havoc with tropical forests by disturbing their nitrogen cycle, new international research shows. Presented in the journal Science, findings reveal the first evidence of long-term effects of nitrogen pollution in tropical trees. Scientists from Austria, Canada, Germany and Panama carried out their work at two remote Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory sites in Panama and Thailand.
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      2011-11-09 - Trapped in time: mite's prehistoric piggyback ride on spider
      A team of scientists from Germany and the United Kingdom has successfully produced 3D images of a prehistoric mite as it grabbed a piggyback ride on a 50-million-year-old spider. The mite, who was just 176 micrometres long and barely visible to the naked eye, was trapped inside Baltic amber (fossil tree resin) and is the smallest arthropod fossil ever to be scanned using X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanning techniques. Writing in the journal Biology Letters, the team also explain that it would have taken 50 million years for these mites to evolve phoretic behaviour. This occurs when - without being a parasite - one animal clings to another to ensure movement from place to place, or hitchhiking, animal kingdom style.
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      2011-11-16 - Scientists identify protein behind plant's oxygen-sensing mechanism
      Regardless of whether you're a botanist or a weekend gardener, you know that too much water can kill your plants. Flooding or water logging of plants doesn't allow them to take up enough of the oxygen required to ensure their cellular respiration and energy production. In order to deal with this state of hypoxia, plants stimulate specific genes. But exactly how plants sense the oxygen concentration has remained a mystery, until now. Researchers in Europe have identified a protein able to bind to certain regions of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), thus triggering the transcription of stress response genes. The results, published in the journal Nature, could lead to improving a crop's tolerance of flooding events.
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      2011-11-17 - Trees can fight poor light with more carbon intake
      If you ever thought that poor sunlight levels play havoc with trees' photosynthesis process, think again. New research from the Czech Republic shows how trees have the capacity to adapt to light conditions and boost their intake of carbon for photosynthesis in poor light. The study, which put the spotlight on how cloud cover affects photosynthesis, is presented in the journal Functional Ecology.
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      2011-11-18 - Scientists unearth origins of Antarctic subglacial mountain range
      The mystery behind the Gamburtsev Mountain Range in eastern Antarctica has piqued the interest of scientists since 1958. Questions about how this range emerged and impacted the spread of glaciers across the continent millions of years ago resulted in no answers... until now. A team of scientists from Europe and the United States has discovered the origins and evolution of this subglacial mountain chain. The findings are published in the journal Nature.
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      2011-11-28 - Orb webs and the mighty spider
      An international team of researchers has discovered that the spiders responsible for producing magnificent webs, what are known as 'orb webs', probably originated from a single spider. The findings of the study, presented in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society, suggest that the diversification of spider webs was triggered by the need to find a new habitat in the natural world, such as stems and trunks, and to use natural resources more efficiently.
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      2011-11-29 - Corals under poaching pressure
      Researchers led by the University of Barcelona in Spain have discovered that poaching is responsible for the near 60% loss of red coral biomass in the Medes Islands marine reserve. Published in the journal Conservation Biology, the study's findings highlight the impact poaching has on the marine reserve, and shed new light on the effect recreational diving has on the coral population of the Medes Islands.
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      2011-11-29 - Scientists sequence spider mite genome
      An international research team has identified the first genome of the spider mite, which is part of the chelicerates - what experts say is one the largest groups of animals on our planet. Published in the journal Nature, the study discovered the genetic basis of the capacity of the spider mite to survive by feeding on more than 1 000 plants. This research, funded in part by a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship grant under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), sheds new light on the evolution of arthropod and plant-herbivore interactions. This could lead to the development of new plant protection strategies.
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      2011-11-30 - New nomenclature for Biomphalaria species in Lake Victoria?
      Lake Victoria, one of the African Great Lakes, is a hotspot for Schistosoma mansoni¸ a major human parasite responsible for schistosomiasis (snail fever) that uses freshwater snails of the genus Biomphalaria as intermediate hosts. Past studies linked some Biomphalaria species with varying parasite compatibility, which impacts local transmission. Lake Victoria, according to experts, is home to two species: B. choanomphala and B. sudanica. But questions remained about the taxonomy of these species. Now researchers from the United Kingdom have discovered that molecular groupings are inconsistent with morphological divisions. The study, published in the journal PLoS ONE, was funded in part by the CONTRAST ('A multidisciplinary alliance to optimise schistosomiasis control and transmission surveillance in sub-Saharan Africa') project. CONTRAST received almost EUR 3 million in funding under the International Cooperation (INCO) Cross-cutting activity of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
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    - Agriculture
      
      2011-11-01 - Nutrition labelling can guide consumers but a lack of motivation and attention stand in the way of healthier food choices
      Despite good understanding and prevalence of nutrition information on food labels in Europe, a lack of motivation and attention of consumers prevents labels from impacting positively on food choices.
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      2011-11-10 - Scientists develop test for residual pesticides from vegetable feed in farmed fish
      A team of German scientists has shown that fish from fish farms are increasingly at risk from pesticide contamination due to the vegetable matter they are being fed. The finding comes as consumers are eating more fish today than ever before, with half of all this consumed fish coming from fish farms, making aquaculture a booming part of the global food industry with an annual growth rate of 9%.
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      2011-11-16 - Watch more TV, watch your waist expand
      Boosting activity, sleeping more and watching less television will help young children maintain a healthy body weight, new EU-funded research shows. An outcome of the IDEFICS ('Identification and prevention of dietary- and lifestyle- induced health effects in children and infants') project, the study shows that the more time children spend in front of a TV or computer screen, the greater the odds that they will gain weight. IDEFICS is backed with EUR 13 million under the Food Quality and Safety Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). The findings were presented at the 11th European Nutrition Conference in Madrid, Spain in late October, ahead of this month's final IDEFICS meeting in Bremen, Germany.
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      2011-11-21 - Scientists shed light on legume evolution by unravelling genome sequence
      An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of Medicago, a member of the large Fabaceae group of flowering plants and a long-established model for the study of legume biology. The scientists have successfully mapped out around 94% of its genes. Their findings give us an insight into how Papilionoideae, the largest of the three Fabaceae subfamilies evolve. The Papilionoideae subfamily includes peas, soybean and all legumes that are grown as crops. The study, which brought together 128 scientists from, Belgium, France Germany, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States received EUR 14 750 955 of funding from the GRAIN LEGUMES ('New strategies to improve grain legumes for food and feed') project, which was funded as part of the 'Food Quality and Safety' Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
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      2011-11-30 - Study confirms link between herbicide atrazine and reproductive problems
      Exposure to the chemical atrazine triggers reproductive dysfunction in animals, a new international study confirms. Presenting their study in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, scientists from Asia, Europe, and North and South America reviewed the evidence of a link between exposure to the herbicide used in over 60 countries worldwide and reproductive problems in mammals, amphibians, fish and reptiles.
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    - Nanosciences
      
      2011-11-28 - Fighting Parkinson's with carbon nanoparticles
      One of the problems affecting the human nervous system is dopamine deficiency. But testing of dopamine concentration is costly and requires sophisticated equipment not available in a doctor's office. Enter a team of Polish scientists who developed a method enabling the detection of dopamine in solutions both easily and cheaply, even in the presence of interferences. The study is an outcome of the NOBLESSE ('Nanotechnology, biomaterials and alternative energy source for the European Research Area (ERA))' project, which is backed with EUR 3.3 million under the 'Regions of Knowledge' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The results are published in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
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    - Space
      
      2011-11-03 - Gamma-ray bursts help reveal make-up of distant galaxies
      Space scientists investigating the composition of very distant galaxies have discovered two galaxies in the young Universe that have more heavy chemical elements than the Sun. Led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany, the international team used a short yet brilliant light of a distant gamma-ray burst for its study. According to the astronomers, a merger of the two galaxies is potentially on the cards. Events like these in the early Universe can help create new stars and may be the trigger for gamma-ray bursts.
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      2011-11-08 - The future lies in the skies! Expanding South Africa's radio astronomy network through cooperation
      At a special meeting in the European Parliament on Monday 7 November, policymakers, experts, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and astronomers alike came together to discuss the future of radio astronomy in South Africa as well as the wider context of scientific partnership between Europe and Africa, one of the key objectives of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy adopted at the 2010 Africa-EU Summit.
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      2011-11-23 - Cassini images chronicle massive Saturn storm
      Heavy storms may ravage Earth from time to time, but our planet has got nothing on Saturn: the planet was pummelled by a string of storms that lasted for 200 days. The biggest in over 20 years, this record-breaking storm season was captured in images and animated movies from the Cassini spacecraft during the Cassini-Huygens mission that is unlocking the mysteries of the renowned ringed planet.
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    - Energy
      
      2011-11-28 - New EU-funded project tests out smart grids of the future
      As we increase our capacity to produce more solar and wind energy it is vital that we also increase our ability to effectively distribute it, and a new EU-funded project that aims to test these electricity distribution systems of the future has just kicked off. With a boost of funding to the tune of EUR 12.7 million under the 'Energy' Theme of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), the EcoGrid (A Prototype for European Smart Grids) project brings together 16 project partners from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
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    - Socio-economic sciences and Humanities
      
      2011-11-04 - Researchers fight to save recently uncovered German World War II bomber plane
      Researchers from the United Kingdom are taking part in an attempt to rescue the last remaining intact World War II German light bomber Dornier Do 17, which has been submerged underwater in the English Channel since it was brought down in August 1940 during the height of the Battle of Britain. The aircraft, which was commonly referred to as the 'Flying Pencil' (in German, Fliegender Bleistift), has lain protected from the corrosive effects of seawater under layers of sediment for the past 71 years, but shifting sands that uncovered the aircraft in 2010 have since left it exposed and unprotected. Now the aircraft-rescuing researchers, from Imperial College London and the Royal Air Force (RAF) Museum, face a race against the clock to save and preserve this rare Second World War II artefact before it corrodes any further.
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      2011-11-07 - Study investigates cooperation habits in children and chimps
      Researchers have long noted the close connection between humans and chimpanzees. Of particular interest are the cognitive prerequisites for humanlike collaboration between chimps. But a new European study has discovered that the concept of cooperation is something that differs considerably between people and chimps. The findings are presented in the journal Current Biology. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany and the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands have observed how children prefer to work together when a puzzle needs to be solved instead of solving it on their own. But chimps show no such preference.
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      2011-11-08 - ERC researchers discover lost civilisation in Sahara
      An EU-funded team of archaeologists has unearthed the remains of a lost civilisation of the Sahara, in one of the harshest parts of the African desert. The result is an outcome of the TRANS-SAHARA ('State formation, migration and trade in the central Sahara (1000 BC-AD 1500)') project, which received a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant worth EUR 2.42 million under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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      2011-11-10 - Ancient horse DNA confirms realistic cave paintings
      Are works of art from the Palaeolithic period reflections of the natural environment? An international team of scientists has used ancient deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to unlock the mystery of how horses depicted in prehistoric cave paintings are lifelike in nature. Presented in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the results show that all the colour variations observed in Palaeolithic cave paintings, even 'leopard' spotting, existed in pre-domestic horse populations. The study helps corroborate the theory that artists were reflecting their natural environment and substantiates white spotted phenotypes in pre-domestic horses. Until now, DNA studies had only succeeded in confirming results for bay and black horses.
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      2011-11-14 - Antisocial people most likely to join gangs: study
      Extreme antisocial personality influences a person's decision to join a gang, new British research shows. A two-man research team from the University of Leicester and University College London discovered how within criminal groups, while some individuals got along with others easily, the most antisocial types joined or formed gangs because they tried to fit in; these types ended up establishing 'friendships' with others who think and act like them. The findings are published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
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      2011-11-21 - Cook and learn new languages
      If you ever sat at a desk with headphones on, listening to a voice dictate words and verbs in a foreign language, you're not alone. While effective, this conventional method of learning a new language can be monotonous and dreary at times. Researchers in the United Kingdom have discovered an innovative way to learn a new language: through preparing food and cooking.
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      2011-11-21 - Ancient cooking pots reveal culinary cues
      A European team of researchers led by the universities of York and Bradford in the United Kingdom has discovered that humans modified their behaviour slowly rather than quickly when it came to switching their method in hunting for and gathering their food. Presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the findings unlock the mystery of this transition with help from residues in ancient cooking pots.
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      2011-11-22 - Sex Pistols graffiti found in London flat - what's its archaeological worth?
      Typically, markings, writing or art left behind by our predecessors and discovered by archaeologists bring to mind hieroglyphics or cave markings from the hands of the earliest humans. We are probably less likely to think of British 1970s punk bands - until now. Step in a group of archaeologists from the United Kingdom. Their subject? Graffiti made by the Sex Pistols on the walls of a London flat the group rented in the mid 1970s.
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      2011-11-25 - Strengthen education to build social cohesion
      Europeans are rising to meet the challenge of overcoming inequalities and of promoting social cohesion, but existing educational differences are not making this easy. EU-funded researchers are investigating the educational strategies that could help Europeans prevail over such challenges. The INCLUD-ED ('Strategies for inclusion and social cohesion in Europe from education') project received EUR 3.36 million under the 'Citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society' Thematic area of the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
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  - Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development 2007- 2013 (FP7)
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      Become an expert evaluator for FP7
      The website to register as an expert for research activities is available on CORDIS. The call for experts is open both for individuals and for organisations.
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      2011-11-30 - Horizon 2020: Commission proposes €80 billion investment in research and innovation, to boost growth and jobs
      The European Commission has today presented a package of measures to boost research, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced Horizon 2020, an €80 billion programme for investment in research and innovation. Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has put forward a Strategic Innovation Agenda for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which will receive €2.8 billion of funding under Horizon 2020. In parallel, Vice-President Antonio Tajani has announced a complementary new programme to boost competitiveness and innovation in SMEs, with an additional budget of €2.5 billion. The funding programmes run from 2014 to 2020.
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    - European Technology Plateformes
      
      Advanced Engineering Materials and Technologies (EuMaT)
      No events planned
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      Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE)
      No events planned
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      European Technology Platform for Wind Energy (TPWind)
      No events planned
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      European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS)
      3-4 May 2012, Athens - NBS 2012: 6th Concertation and Consultation Workshop on Micro-Nano-Bio-Convergence Systems
      3-4 May 2012, Brussels - Smart Energy and Sustainable ICT
      7-11 May 2012, Aalborg - Future Internet Week 2012
      8-10 May 2012, Nuremberg - SMT Hybrid Packaging - System Integration in Micro Electronics
      9-12 May 2012, London - 9th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks
      14 May 2012, Stuttgart - Microtec/Smart Systems Cluster Dialogue
      21-25 May 2012, Opatija/Abbazia - MIPRO 2012 - Jubilee 35th International Convention / MEET - Microelectronics, Electronics and Electronic Technology
      22-24 May 2012, Lausanne - Swiss NanoConvention 2012
      23-24 May 2012, Leuven - RFID in Europe 2012 Conference and Workshops
      27 May-1 June 2012, Stuttgart - SMART 2012
      28 May 2012, Prague - Bridging research in ageing and ICT development final conference
      30-31 May 2012, Berlin - AMAA 2012
      30 May-1 June 2012, Vienna - Green ICT for Growth and Sustainability? Linking Science and Policy
      30 May-1 June, Vienna - Multinational knowledge brokerage event on Sustainable Consumer Electronics
      31 May-1 June 2012, Espoo - 3rd European Summit on the Future Internet
      4-8 June 2012, Delft - Graphene Week 2012: Sixth International Conference on the Fundamental Science of Graphene and Applications of Graphene-Based Devices
      10-14 June 2012, Montecatini Terme - 4th International Conference "Smart Materials, Structures and Systems"
      13-15 June 2012, Graz - EURIPIDES Annual Forum 2012
      18-22 June 2012, Venice - IoT week 2012
      19-21 June 2012, Aarhus - Industrial Technologies 2012: Integrating nano, aterials, and production
      24-27 June 2012, Vestfold - COMS 2012 - 17th annual conference on commercializing micro- and nanotechnology
      25-26 June 2012, Copenhagen - EIT conference: Good practices and learnings
      26-28 June 2012, Porto - pHealth 2012
      27-29 June 2012, Hannover - 1st Joint Symposium on System-Integrated Intelligence: New Challenges for Product and Production Engineering
      3-6 September 2012, Manchester - SMART INTERNET OF THINGS 2012
      9-12 September 2012, Wroclaw - FedCSIS 2012 - Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
      9-12 September 2012, Ilmenau - MME 2012: 23rd Micromechanics and Microsystems Europe Workshop
      10-12 September 2012, Paris - Energy Efficient Transportataion Networks
      24-27 September 2012, Eindhoven - AAL Forum 2012 "Tomorrow in Sight: From Design to Delivery"
      26-28 September 2012, Paris - EPoSS General Assembly & Annual Forum 2012
      27-28 September 2012, Besançon - 8th micro & nanotechnologies brokerage event within Micronora 2012
      16-18 October 2012, Dresden - WORLD MANUFACTURING FORUM 2012 - Smart Policies for Global Manufacturing Innovation
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      European Technology Platform Food for Life (Food)
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      Forest Based Sector Technology Platform (Forestry)
      4 May 2012, Brussels - The European Technology Platforms (ETP-s) and Industrial change - Public hearing
      8-9 May 2012, Alcácer - CEPF General Assembly
      15 May 2012, place tbc - FTP joint Partnering Event together with COST
      21-24 May 2012, Tours - Tackling climate change: the contribution of forest scientific knowledge
      22-25 May 2012 - Green Week 2012
      25 May 2012, Istanbul - TurKey Enabling Technologies 2012
      4-6 June 2012, Toulouse - 8th International Conference on Renewable Resources & Biorefineries
      18 June 2012, Milan - 20th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition
      19-21 June 2012, Aarhus - EU Industrial Technologies 2012, Integrating nano, materials and productions
      25-27 June 2012, Brussels - AEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference
      8-13 July 2012, Lisbon - 2012 IUFRO Conference
      27-31 August 2012, Jyväskylä - BIOENERGY from FOREST
      16-18 September 2012, Ljubljana - The Sixth European Conference on Wood Modification ECWM6
      23 October 2012, Helsinki - 4th Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference
      30 October-2 November 2012, Saint Petersburg - XII International Conference and Exhibition for Pulp & Paper, Forestry, Tissue, Converting & Packing Industries
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      Embedded Computing Systems (ARTEMIS)
      11 May 2012, Gdansk - ARTEMIS Informations & Networking Workshop
      22 May 2012, Brussels - 6th SEMI Brussels Forum
      5-6 June 2012, Copenhagen - ARTEMIS Summer Camp 2012
      2 July 2012, Lyngby - EIAC-RTESMA2012 Workshop
      26-27 September 2012, Warsaw - ITC Proposers Day 2012
      8-10 October 2012, Brussels - "Made in Europe - ICT building blocks tackling societal challenges"
      30-31 October 2012, Paris - ARTEMIS and ITEA Co-summit 2012
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      Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020 (ENIAC)
      21-22 May 2012, Brussels - 6th SEMI Brussels Forum
      21-22 June 2012, Brussels - 2nd Digital Agenda Assembly for Europe
      2-3 October 2012, Sophia Antipolis - SAME 15th edition
      9-11 October 2012, Dresden - SEMICON Europa
      20-21 November 2012, Munich - European Nanoelectronics Forum 2012
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      European Rail Research Advisory Council (ERRAC)
      10-13 July 2012, Philadelphia - UIC HIGHSPEED 2012, 8th World Congress on High-Speed Rail
      18-21 September 2012, Berlin - INNOTRANS
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      European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC)
      No events planned
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      European Space Technology Platform (ESTP)
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      European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP)
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      European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the Future (SmartGrids)
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      Future Manufacturing Technologies (MANUFUTURE)
      No events planned
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      European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (Euratex)
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      Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH)
      10-11 May 2012, Copenhagen - International Symposium on Water electrolysis and hydrogen as part of the future Renewable Energy System
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      Industrial Safety ETP (IndustrialSafety)
      No events planned
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      Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
      30 May 2012, Brussels - Stakeholder Forum 2012
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      Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI)
      No events planned
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      Mobile and Wireless Communications (eMobility)
      3-4 May 2012, Stuttgart - SRA Workshop
      10-11 May 2012, Aalborg - Future Internet Assembly (FIA)
      10-15 June 2012, Ottawa - NovaEnEv 2012
      11-13 June 2012, Thessaloniki - TridentCom 2012
      13-15 June 2012, San Francisco - NGMN Industry Conference & Exhibition
      4-6 July 2012, Berlin - Future Network & Mobile Summit 2012
      12-14 September 2012, Paris - International Workshop on Technologies and Applications for Smart Cities (I-TASC)
      25-28 September 2012 - IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications
      15-18 October 2012, Rome - NETWORKS 2012
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      Nanotechnologies for Medical Applications (NanoMedicine)
      7 May 2012, Basel - European Summit for Clinical Nanomedicine 2012
      22-24 May 2012, Lausanne - Swiss NanoConvention 2012
      29 May 2012, Brussels - Open Information Day - FP7 health
      30 May 2012, Brussels - FP7 Health Partnering event
      17-22 June 2012, Larnaca - Personalised Medicine: Better Healthcare for the Future
      18 June 2012, Varese - Nanobio-Europe 2012
      19-21 June 2012, Aarhus - Industrial Technologies Conference 2012
      30 June 2012, Thessaloniki - ISSON12 Summer School on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies:Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine
      3 July 2012, Thessaloniki - NN12 - 9th International Conference on Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies
      15 July 2012, Amsterdam - Colloids and Nanomedicine 2012
      26-31 August 2012, Rhodes Island - Symposium on Nanomedicine during NANO2012
      5-8 September 2012, Dublin - World Molecular Imaging Congress 2012
      26-29 September 2012, Berder Island - Workshop "Nanomedicine in Oncology"
      28-31 October 2012, Helsinki - International Congress on Safety of Engineered Nanoparticles and Nanotechnologies - SENN2012
      13-15 November 2012, Grenoble - Nanosafe 2012
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      Networked and Electronic Media (NEM)
      10-11 May 2012, Aalborg - Future Internet Assembly
      4-6 July 2012, Berlin - Future Network and MobileSummit 2012
      3-5 September 2012, Berlin - 2nd IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
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      Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI)
      2 May 2012, Brussels - Research in Future Cloud Computing
      3-4 May 2012, Brussels - Smart Energy and Sustainable ICT Conference
      9-10 May 2012, Frankfurt - SecureCloud Conference 2012
      15-17 May 2012, Cagliari - Computing Frontier 2012
      21-23 May 2012, London - Semantic Technology
      21-23 May 2012, Copenhagen - International Software Development Conference 2012
      31 May-1 June 2012, Espoo - 3rd Future Internet Summit
      6-7 June 2012, Amsterdam - ICCITEE
      12-13 June 2012, London - Cloud Computing World Forum 2012
      12-15 June 2012, Artimino - 10th International Conference on Smart Homes
      28 June-1 July 2012, Wroclaw - 7th International Conference on ENASE
      22-27 July 2012, Nice - Service Computation 2012
      20-24 August 2012, Prague - 7th ARES Conference
      1-4 September 2012, Nicosia - East-Meets-West on Innovation and Entrepreneurship
      5-8 November 20212, Amsterdam - EuroSTAR Software Testing Conference
      22 November 2012, Brussels - SciTech Europe: Broadening Horizons
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      Photonics21 (Photonics)
      6-10 May 2012, Castle Schkopau - Interdisciplinary Summerschool on Clinical Biophotonics
      14 May 2012, Florence - InnoPho21 Workshop
      15-17 May 2012, Florence - Fotonica 2012
      22-25 May 2012, Frankfurt - Optatec 2012
      23 May 2012, Paris - Workshop on Cloaking
      5-7 June 2012, Lyon - LumiBat - The international indoor lighting trade fair
      13-14 June 2012, Birmingham - euroLED 2012
      19-21 June 2012, Jena - ICOB 2012
      19-21 June 2012, Munich - LOPE-C
      30 June-7 July 2012, Thessaloniki - NANOTEXNOLOGY 2012
      2-4 July 2012, Amsterdam - SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012
      2-6 July 2012, Thessaloniki - 2nd International Exhibition on Nanotechnologies & Organic Electronics
      4-6 July 2012, Berlin - Future Networks and Mobile Summit
      8-15, Venice - 3rd International School on Lasers in Materials Science – SLIMS
      22-26 July 2012, Porto - 8th Iberoamerican Optics Meeting / 11th Latinamerican Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Applications
      12-16 August 2012, San Diego - SPIE Optics + Photonics 2012
      20-22 August 2012, Dublin - 6th EOS Topical Meeting on Visual and Physiological Optics
      2-7 September 2012, Marseille - ETOPIM 9, 9th conference on Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media
      6-9 September 2012, Shenzhen - 14th China International Optoelectronic EXPO
      17-22 September 2012, St Petersburg - Sixth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2012
      24-26 September 2012, Rhodes Island - APMS 2012 International Conference - Advances in Production Management Systems
      24-27 September 2012, Edinburgh - SPIE Security and Defence + Remote Sensing
      25-28 September 2012, Aberdeen - EOS Annual Meeting
      9-11 October 2012, Dresden - Plastic Electronics Conference & Exhibition
      21-22 November 2012, Paris - ForumLED Europe 2012
      28-29 November 2012, Mulhouse - Journées Nationales des Procédés Laser pour l'Industrie
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      Photovoltaics (PV Platform)
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      Plants for the Future (Plants)
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      Robotics (EUROP)
      14-18 May 2012, St Paul - ICRA 2012
      22-25 May 2012, Munich - Automatica 2012 - International Trade Fair for Automation and Mechatronics
      4-8 June 2012, Valencia - AAMAS 2012
      18-24 June 2012, Mexico City - RoboCup 2012
      24-28 June 2012, Puerto Vallarta - International Symposium on Robotics and Applications (ISORA 2012)
      20-25 August 2012, Bristol - FIRA - TAROS 2012
      24-28 September 2012, Thun - ELROB 2012
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      European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem)
      18 September 2012, Brussels - 2012 Brokerage Event
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      Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNE-TP)
      18-19 June 2012, Rome - Executive Committee n°14
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      Water Supply and Sanitation Platform (WSSTP)
      15-16 May 2012, Brussels - “Water Innovation Europe” event
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      Waterborne ETP (Waterborne)
      23 April 2012, Athens - TRA 2012
      19-21 June 2012, Santiago de Compostela - WATERBORNE DAYS
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      Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants Technology Platform (ETP ZEP)
      7-8 May 2012, Mongstad - TCM- Technology Centre Mongstad
      15 May 2012, Brussels - 3rd Annual Brussels Carbon Capture and Storage Summit
      15-17 May 2012, Bali - Clean Power Asia 2012
      22 May 2012, Maarssen - 6th National Dutch CCS symposium:From Roadmaps to Reality,CCS in practice
      4-5 June 2012, Malta - Eurelectric Annual Conference
      13-14 June 2012, Ankara - CGS Europe 2nd CCS awareness-raising workshop
      18-22 June 2012, Brussels - European Union Sustainable Energy Week
      19-21 June 2012, Aarhus - Industrial Technologies 2012
      12-18 August 2012, Beijing - 6th IEAGHG International CCS Summer School
      2 October 2012, Brussels - ZEP General Assembly
      9-10 October 2012, Copenhagen - Global Green Growth Forum
      18-22 October 2012, Pittsburgh - One Young World Summit 2012
      22-26 October 2012, Perth - CSLF Annual Meeting
      18-22 November 2012, Kyoto - GHGT-11
      26 November-7 December 2012, Doha - COP 18
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      European Technology Platform on Renewable Heating & Cooling (RHC)
      14-16 May 2012, Brussels - Renewable Heating and Cooling Week at the European Parliament
      30 May 2012, Brussels - Board Meeting of the RHC-Platform
      31 May 2012, Brussels - Steering Committee meeting of the Solar Thermal Technology Panel
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    - Joint Technology Initiatives
      
      Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI)
      30 May 2012, Brussels - Stakeholder Forum 2012
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      Embedded Computing Systems (ARTEMISA)
      11 May 2012, Gdansk - ARTEMIS Informations & Networking Workshop
      22 May 2012, Brussels - 6th SEMI Brussels Forum
      5-6 June 2012, Copenhagen - ARTEMIS Summer Camp 2012
      2 July 2012, Lyngby - EIAC-RTESMA2012 Workshop
      26-27 September 2012, Warsaw - ITC Proposers Day 2012
      8-10 October 2012, Brussels - "Made in Europe - ICT building blocks tackling societal challenges"
      30-31 October 2012, Paris - ARTEMIS and ITEA Co-summit 2012
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      Nanoelectronics Technologies 2020 (ENIAC)
      21-22 May 2012, Brussels - 6th SEMI Brussels Forum
      21-22 June 2012, Brussels - 2nd Digital Agenda Assembly for Europe
      2-3 October 2012, Sophia Antipolis - SAME 15th edition
      9-11 October 2012, Dresden - SEMICON Europa
      20-21 November 2012, Munich - European Nanoelectronics Forum 2012
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      Aeronautics and Air Transport (Clean Sky)
      17 May 2012, Torino - Clean Sky Info day
      11-15 June 2012, Copenhagen - Turbo Expo
      9-15 July 2012, Farnborough - Farnborough International Airshow
      11-16 September 2012, Berlin - ILA Berlin
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      Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH)
      24 April 2012, Paris - Workshop of the International Energy Agency on On-site H2 supply
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- Innovation policy
  
  2011-11-07 - European Innovation Partnership agrees on actions to turn ageing into an opportunity
  
  Today, the Steering Group of the pilot European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing agreed on joint actions in response to the societal challenge of an ageing European population. The Group is made up of people from the health and social sectors, businesses, civil society to public authorities. In today’s Strategic Implementation Plan, the Group sets out priority actions to meet the challenge of ageing through innovation. The overarching objective is to ensure that the average European citizen has two more active and healthy years to live by 2020. The implementation plan is the first step towards that objective, and focuses on three main areas of life events: prevention, care and cure, and independent living.
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  2011-11-30 - European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to create more innovation hubs
  
  The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is to significantly step up its efforts to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in the EU with the creation of six new cross-border innovation hubs, known as Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), in 2014-2020. The European Commission has allocated a budget of €2.8 billion in the next financial framework to enable the EIT to expand and consolidate the development of its existing KICs which focus on climate change, sustainable energy and ICT.
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- Education policy
  
  2011-11-16 - Tackling low achievement in mathematics and science still a challenge in Europe
  
  Policy-makers need to do more to help schools tackle low achievement in mathematics and science, according to two reports presented by the European Commission today. The report on mathematics education reveals that only five European countries (England, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Norway) have set national targets to boost achievement levels, although a majority of EU Member States provide general guidelines to address pupils' difficulties in this area. The report on science shows that no Member States have specific national support policies for low achievers, although five countries (Bulgaria, Germany, Spain, France and Poland) have launched programmes to tackle low achievement in general. The reports conclude that although much has been achieved in updating mathematics and science curricula, support for the teachers responsible for implementing the changes is still lacking.
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  2011-11-23 - Erasmus for All: 5 million in line for EU funding
  
  Up to 5 million people, almost twice as many as now, could get the chance to study or train abroad with a grant from Erasmus for All, the new EU programme for education, training, youth and sport proposed by the European Commission today. Among them would be nearly 3 million higher education and vocational students. Master's degree students would also benefit from a new loan guarantee scheme set up with the European Investment Bank Group. The seven-year Erasmus for All programme, which would have a total budget of €19 billion, is due to start in 2014.
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- Information society
  
  2011-11-03 - Digital Agenda: EU & US conduct readiness tests for cyber attacks in "Cyber Atlantic 2011"
  
  The first test of trans-Atlantic responses to cyber incidents, including cyber attacks, took place in Brussels today. Experts from the US Government joined counterparts from EU Member States to simulate how cyber security authorities on both sides of the Atlantic would cooperate in response to attacks. Two hypothetical scenarios were tested: a cyber-attack which attempts to extract and publish online sensitive information from the EU's national cyber security agencies, and an attack on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in EU power generation equipment.
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  2011-11-08 - Digital Agenda: EU and Brazil strengthen ties with €10 million joint ICT field research programme
  
  The European Commission and the Brazilian Government have agreed, at their annual Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) dialogue in Brasilia, to launch a new coordinated call for research and development proposals with €10 million available in funding. This call for proposals will allow researchers and industries in the two regions to extend their work together into areas like cloud computing for science, sustainable technologies for smart cities, smart platforms for a smarter society, and hybrid broadcast-broadband TV applications and services. The Commission and the Brazilian authorities have also agreed to share their respective experience and knowledge of policy and regulatory aspects in the ICT field, such as broadband development, internet governance and security, cloud computing and digital broadcasting and content.
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- Enterprises
  
  2011-11-09 - Opening the world for small and medium sized enterprises to enhance EU growth
  
  European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) should better profit from fast growing emerging markets, such as in China, India, Russia or in regions like South East Asia and Latin America. This is the key issue to overcome the crisis addressed in the European Commission communication ‘Small Business, Big World - a new partnership to help SMEs seize global opportunities’ presented today. Only 13 % of EU SMEs are internationally active outside the EU through trade, investment or other forms of cooperation with foreign partners. Therefore, the Commission is working to establish a more coherent and effective EU strategy for supporting SMEs in international markets. This could be achieved by reinforcing business support services, improving the coordination and use of existing resources including the Enterprise Europe Network. Thus SMEs have better access to more relevant information and assistance in their attempts to penetrate new markets and search for the right local partners.
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  2011-12-05 - € 2.5 billions to boost business competitiveness and SMEs 2014 - 2020
  
  Promote access to finance and encouraging an entrepreneurial culture, including the creation of new enterprises are the core issues of the new financial support programme, tabled by the European Commission in Brussels today. With a budget of € 2.5 billions over the period 2014-2020, the Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs, COSME is a funding instrument, which is largely continuing the activities under the current Competitiveness and Innovation programme (CIP). The new programme targets in particular: 1) entrepreneurs, in particular SMEs, which will benefit from easier access to funding for their business, 2) citizens who want to become self-employed and face difficulties in setting up or developing their own business, 3) Member States' authorities, which will be better assisted in their efforts to elaborate and implement effective policy reform.
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- Environment
  
  2011-11-18 - Environment: Commission recognises eco-innovative solutions
  
  The European Commission has announced this year's winners of the European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme Awards. The six winning organisations not only showed excellence in respecting and safeguarding the environment, but also in applying innovative solutions to involve different stakeholders. The awards were handed out last night in Krakow, Poland.
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  2011-11-21 - Environment: Major expansion of Europe's protected natural areas
  
  Natura 2000, the EU's network of protected areas, has undergone a significant expansion. Nearly 18 800 square kilometres have been added, including a major addition of marine areas covering 17 000 square kilometres which will increase protection for many endangered marine species. The network now covers almost 18% of the EU's landmass and more than 145 000 km² of its seas. The main countries involved in this latest expansion are the UK, France, Belgium, Greece, Cyprus, Hungary, Lithuania and Italy. Natura 2000 is the centrepiece of Europe's battle to halt biodiversity loss and safeguard ecosystem services.
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  2011-11-22 - Environment: alarming decline in plants, molluscs and freshwater fish
  
  Europe's natural heritage is showing an alarming decline, according to new research published today. The European Red List, a part of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, assessed a considerable portion of Europe’s native fauna and flora, finding that a large proportion of molluscs, freshwater fish and vascular plants now fall into the threatened category. The assessment of some 6000 species reveals that 44% of all freshwater molluscs, 37% of freshwater fish, 23% of amphibians, 20% of a selection of terrestrial molluscs, 19% of reptiles, 15% of mammals and of dragonflies, 13% of birds, 11% of a selection of saproxylic beetles, 9% of butterflies, and 467 species of vascular plant species are now under threat.
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  2011-11-23 - Climate change: Enhancing EU rules for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions
  
  Timely and accurate data on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is vital for knowing whether the EU and its Member States are on track to meet their emission targets and for developing robust new policies to address the climate challenge. The European Commission today proposed legislation to significantly enhance the monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions, in particular to meet new requirements arising from the package of EU climate and energy laws for the period 2013-2020.
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  2011-11-24 - Durban must deliver a roadmap for climate action by all major economies
  
  The United Nations climate change conference starting on 28 November in Durban, South Africa, must agree on a roadmap and deadline for finalising an ambitious, comprehensive and legally binding global framework for climate action by all major economies. Agreement on this roadmap is one of the reassurances the European Union requires for entering into a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Durban also needs to make operational the decisions taken last year in Cancún, Mexico, and tackle major issues not resolved there. It should result in a balanced package of decisions acceptable to all Parties.
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  2011-11-30 - €5.8 billions proposed to fund the European programme for Earth observation
  
  Today, the European Commission has proposed to finance the GMES programme (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) for Earth observation for the period 2014-2020 outside the EU financial framework, for which an estimated budget of €5.8 bn is deemed necessary. The Commission proposes to set up a specific GMES fund similar to the model chosen for the European Development Fund, with financial contributions from all 27 EU Member States based on their gross national income (GNI). This will require an intergovernmental agreement between the EU Member States meeting within the Council. The programme will be coordinated by the Commission and its financial management could be delegated to the Global Navigation Satellite System Agency (GSA).
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- Health
  
  2011-11-09 - EU Budget 2014-2020: Commission unveils new and ambitious Health and Consumer Programmes
  
  Today, the European Commission adopted proposals for the new Health for Growth and Consumer Programmes. The two programmes aim to foster a Europe of healthy, active, informed and empowered citizens, who can contribute to economic growth. These new programmes will run from 2014-2020 with a budget of €446 million for the Health for Growth Programme and €197 million for the Consumer Programme. Focus will be on fewer concrete actions that offer clear EU added-value.
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  2011-11-14 - Food: new legislation to make the use of additives in the EU safer and more transparent
  
  The use of additives in food will soon become even safer and more transparent than it currently is thanks to two pieces of legislation adopted by the European Commission. "Today represents a landmark in our efforts to strengthen food safety in the European Union," Health and Consumer Policy Commissioner, John Dalli, said. "The adoption of two regulations on additives will further empower citizens and industry alike as they will make it easier for everyone concerned to know exactly what additives are allowed in foodstuffs," he added. "In a nutshell, this means a better informed citizen and, at the same, an EU Food Industry properly equipped to come up with new innovative and safe products," Commissioner Dalli concluded.
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  2011-11-17 - Action Plan against antimicrobial resistance: Commission unveils 12 concrete actions for the next five years
  
  With about 25,000 patients dying per year in the EU from infections caused by drug resistant bacteria and related costs of over 1.5 billion euros in healthcare expenses and productivity losses, antimicrobial resistance is a growing health problem in the EU. Today, on the eve of European Antibiotic Awareness Day, the European Commission has tabled a comprehensive Action Plan on Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) which unveils 12 concrete actions to be implemented in close cooperation with the Member States.
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- Transport
  
  2011-11-17 - International agreed rules to speed up introduction of electric vehicles
  
  The introduction of electrical cars will get a further boost with an international agreement promoted by the European Union, the United States and Japan in Geneva (Switzerland) today. The partners agreed to closely cooperate on convergence of regulatory obligations related to electric vehicles in the global context. This will lead to cost savings through economies of scale for automotive manufacturers. Currently they only produce relatively small volumes of electric vehicles in different world regions. The agreement is, therefore key in the context of economic recovery and general cost-sensitiveness of the industry. Taking into account that the rules for electro-mobility technologies are currently being developed on both sides of the Atlantic and Asia, the cooperation is particularly interesting as it offers a unique opportunity to develop common approaches.
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  2011-11-25 - Aviation: Progress reports show key targets for European air traffic management "at risk"
  
  Progress reports published today on the Single European Sky – far-reaching proposals to put in place a pan-European air traffic management system by 2030 – "set alarm bells ringing." "There is a genuine risk that we will lag behind and find ourselves unable to satisfy the rising demands of air travel, which is set to nearly double by 2030", said European Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas, responsible for transport. "2012 is a make or break year for the Single European Sky and there is a lot at stake. Despite efforts that have been made, the Commission's "traffic light" assessment shows a large majority of Member States in the orange or red zones and at risk of not meeting critical targets for 2012".
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  2011-11-29 - TEN-T Days 2011: Decision makers meet to discuss how infrastructure investment can get the economy moving
  
  Decision makers and business leaders will meet in Antwerp, Belgium, today and tomorrow (29 and 30 November) as part of the TEN-T Days 2011 to discuss how the European Union's funding of cross-border transport infrastructure projects can help boost the economy. Organised by the European Commission, the TEN-T Days 2011 will bring together the Commission, Members of the European Parliament, the European Coordinators for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), Ministers and other high level representatives of the Member States as well as more than 600 stakeholders. Also present will be Commission Vice-President Siim Kallas, Commissioner responsible for transport. The theme of this year's TEN-T Days is Connecting Europe: Putting Europe's economy on the move.
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- Space
  
  2011-11-30 - New way forward for Galileo satellite navigation
  
  The European Commission has proposed today the new framework for the financing and governance of the two European satellite navigation programmes Galileo and EGNOS (GPS signal augmentation) for the period 2014-2020. The Commission proposes to earmark €7.0 billions to guarantee the completion of the EU satellite navigation infrastructure and to ensure the exploitation of the systems until 2020, such as the operations of the space and terrestrial infrastructures, the necessary replenishment/replacement activities, certification procedures, and notably the provision of services. The proposal also recalls that the Union remains the owner of the systems. Therefore the management of the programmes' exploitation should be delegated to the European GNSS Agency while management of the programmes' deployment should be delegated to the European Space Agency.
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- Agriculture and fisheries
  
  2011-11-11 - EU promotes ambitious plans to protect tunas and swordfish in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
  
  The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is holding its 22nd Regular Meeting in Istanbul from 11 to 19 of November 2011. In this annual meeting, the European Union and other ICCAT Contracting Parties will agree on management and control measures for the sustainable protection of tuna and tuna-like species in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. These measures will be based on scientific advice released on 17 October 2011 and will include the setting of Total Allowable Catches (TACs) where recommended by the ICCAT scientific committee, e.g. for bigeye tuna, and North and South Atlantic albacore.
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  2011-11-18 - € 17 million additional EU support for the promotion of fresh fruit and vegetables following the E-coli crisis
  
  Today, the European Commission has approved 14 programmes in 11 Member States to promote fresh fruit and vegetables both on the internal market and in third countries. The total budget for the programmes, running for a period of three years, is € 34.1 million of which the EU contributes € 17.0 million (50%). This was one of a set of measures proposed by the Commission this summer to address the difficult market situation faced by this sector as a consequence of the E-coli crisis.
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  2011-11-21 - Fisheries: Commission proposes full ban on shark finning at sea
  
  The European Commission proposed today to forbid, with no exemptions, the practice of 'shark finning' aboard fishing vessels. Shark finning is the practice of cutting off the fins of sharks – often while they are still alive - and then throwing back into the sea the shark without its fins. The Commission proposes that from now on, all vessels fishing in EU waters and all EU vessels fishing anywhere in the world will have to land sharks with the fins still attached. To facilitate storage and handling onboard vessels, fishermen will be permitted to slice partly through each fin and fold it against the carcass of the shark. The aim of the new rules is to better protect vulnerable shark populations across the world's oceans.
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  2011-11-25 - Maritime policy: new strategy for growth and jobs in the Atlantic Ocean area
  
  On Monday 28 November, in Lisbon, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Maria Damanaki, will present a new maritime strategy for growth and jobs in the Atlantic Ocean area, just adopted by the European Commission. The strategy identifies challenges and opportunities in the region and takes stock of existing initiatives that can support growth and job creation. The strategy will be implemented through an Action Plan in 2013. The Commission calls on stakeholders to help design concrete projects which would be able to benefit from EU funding. The Commission will facilitate the development of this Action Plan through a series of workshops and discussion groups that will be open to a wide array of participants - the 'Atlantic Forum'. The new strategy is developed under the EU's Integrated Maritime Policy and follows similar strategies for the Baltic, the Arctic and the Mediterranean areas. Commissioner Damanaki will present the strategy at the high-level Lisbon Atlantic Conference and Stakeholder Day, on 28-29 November, where a first discussion will take place.
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  2011-11-29 - Improving the functioning of the food supply chain
  
  Business-to-business contractual practices, competitiveness in the agro-food industry and the monitoring of food prices will be the main interest of the 2012 work of the High Level Forum for a Better Functioning Food Supply Chain. One year after its launch meeting the Forum adopted today its mid-term report.
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- Energy
  
  2011-11-24 - Commission welcomes Desertec and Medgrid cooperation on solar energy in North Africa and the Middle East
  
  Today, in the margins of the Energy Council, Energy Commissioner Oettinger welcomed the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Desertec Industry Initiative (Dii) and Medgrid. The MoU establishes closer cooperation between the two private industry initiatives, which are key to the promotion of a renewable energy partnership between the EU and countries in the Southern Mediterranean. Areas of cooperation will include exchange of information, update on progress, joint evaluation of potential synergies, and joint efforts on the EU and Middle-East and North Africa level to obtain a more favourable regulatory framework for renewable energy markets.
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  2011-11-24 - Nuclear safety: stress tests well on track
  
  The European stress tests of nuclear power plants are well on track and will further enhance nuclear safety and security in the EU, the Commission says in its very first Communication on the stress tests. Following the nuclear accident in Fukushima, the EU reacted swiftly and agreed on voluntary tests for all of its 143 nuclear power plants based on a set of common criteria. In its Communication published today, the Commission looks at first findings of these stress tests and points to some policy areas where new the EU nuclear safety framework can be strenghened with common standards. Results of the stress tests will be known next year once the tests are finalised.
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  2011-11-24 - Nuclear safety: EU will give extra €500 million for the decommissioning of old Soviet type nuclear reactors
  
  he European Commission has today proposed to provide further EU assistance of €500 million to support the decommissioning in Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovakia. These funds will contribute to the continuation of safe decommissioning of the nuclear power plants Kozloduy, Ignalina and Bohunice. This new financial assistance should support the efforts of the three Member States who are ultimately responsible for nuclear safety, including the financing of decommissioning.
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- Security
  
  2011-11-14 - Aviation security: Commission adopts new rules on the use of security scanners at European airports
  
  he European Commission has adopted today a proposal for an European Union legal framework on security scanners. This legislation allows airports and Member States that wish to use security scanners for the screening of passengers to do so under strict operational and technical conditions.
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- Culture
  
  2011-11-23 - Creative Europe: Commission unveils plan to boost cultural and creative sectors
  
  Thousands of people working in cinema, TV, culture, music, performing arts, heritage and related areas would benefit from increased EU support under the new 'Creative Europe' programme unveiled by the European Commission today. With a proposed budget of €1.8 billion for the period 2014-2020, it would be a much-needed boost for the cultural and creative industries, which are a major source of jobs and growth in Europe. The new programme would allocate more than €900 million in support of the cinema and audiovisual sector (area covered by current MEDIA programme) and almost € 500 million for culture. The Commission is also proposing to allocate more than €210 million for a new financial guarantee facility, which would enable small operators to access up to €1 billion in bank loans, as well as around €60 million in support of policy cooperation and fostering innovative approaches to audience building and new business models.
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November 2011

2011-11-14 - 2011-11-17 - Plenary Session - Strasbourg

2011-11-30 - 2011-12-01 - Plenary Session - Strasbourg

2011-11-23 - Study proposes programme to help keep elderly in work

2011-11-07 - European Innovation Partnership agrees on actions to turn ageing into an opportunity

2011-11-30 - European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to create more innovation hubs

2011-11-16 - Tackling low achievement in mathematics and science still a challenge in Europe

2011-11-23 - Erasmus for All: 5 million in line for EU funding

2011-11-03 - Digital Agenda: EU & US conduct readiness tests for cyber attacks in "Cyber Atlantic 2011"

2011-11-08 - Digital Agenda: EU and Brazil strengthen ties with €10 million joint ICT field research programme

2011-11-09 - Opening the world for small and medium sized enterprises to enhance EU growth

2011-12-05 - € 2.5 billions to boost business competitiveness and SMEs 2014 - 2020

2011-11-18 - Environment: Commission recognises eco-innovative solutions

2011-11-21 - Environment: Major expansion of Europe's protected natural areas

2011-11-22 - Environment: alarming decline in plants, molluscs and freshwater fish

2011-11-23 - Climate change: Enhancing EU rules for monitoring greenhouse gas emissions

2011-11-24 - Durban must deliver a roadmap for climate action by all major economies

2011-11-30 - €5.8 billions proposed to fund the European programme for Earth observation

2011-11-09 - EU Budget 2014-2020: Commission unveils new and ambitious Health and Consumer Programmes

2011-11-14 - Food: new legislation to make the use of additives in the EU safer and more transparent

2011-11-17 - Action Plan against antimicrobial resistance: Commission unveils 12 concrete actions for the next five years

2011-11-17 - International agreed rules to speed up introduction of electric vehicles

2011-11-25 - Aviation: Progress reports show key targets for European air traffic management "at risk"

2011-11-29 - TEN-T Days 2011: Decision makers meet to discuss how infrastructure investment can get the economy moving

2011-11-30 - New way forward for Galileo satellite navigation

2011-11-11 - EU promotes ambitious plans to protect tunas and swordfish in the Atlantic and Mediterranean

2011-11-18 - € 17 million additional EU support for the promotion of fresh fruit and vegetables following the E-coli crisis

2011-11-21 - Fisheries: Commission proposes full ban on shark finning at sea

2011-11-25 - Maritime policy: new strategy for growth and jobs in the Atlantic Ocean area

2011-11-29 - Improving the functioning of the food supply chain

2011-11-24 - Commission welcomes Desertec and Medgrid cooperation on solar energy in North Africa and the Middle East

2011-11-24 - Nuclear safety: stress tests well on track

2011-11-24 - Nuclear safety: EU will give extra €500 million for the decommissioning of old Soviet type nuclear reactors

2011-11-14 - Aviation security: Commission adopts new rules on the use of security scanners at European airports

2011-11-23 - Creative Europe: Commission unveils plan to boost cultural and creative sectors

To consult our updated table of calls, click on our dedicated webpage below

Audits et contrôles de votre contrat européen de recherche - Formation en ligne