Turning research results into commercial success – EU needs to improve its record.EU calls on members to capitalise on research results and proposes joint approach.
Europe's leading scientists honoured for groundbreaking research into everything from dark energy and black holes to killer T-cells and food-borne pathogens.
To stimulate competitiveness in Europe, the EU is encouraging public private research partnerships and creating two new agencies to provide researchers with as much support as possible.
What will daily life in Europe be like in the future? The EU commission wants it to be cleaner, safer and more comfortable. It sees hydrogen as the way to go.
One year after it was launched for the general public, the .eu domain name has exceeded all expectations. With more than 2.6 million addresses registered, the online EU is stronger than ever.
The 2007 awards for ground-breaking new communications technologies have been announced: Austrian, British and Swedish entrepreneurs each received €200 000 for their outstanding contributions.
Good news for those of us who use mobile phones abroad – a new regulation capping roaming charges should be in place before the summer. General agreement is emerging among European leaders over the new roaming regulation.
A scientific and technical Academy Award has been presented to a special effects programme developed jointly by European universities and industry. The award owes much to the Marie Curie fellowships offered by the EU's research and development framework programmes.
On 1 March the EU's in‑house television news agency will start broadcasting exclusively from a new satellite, extending its one-stop news service on EU affairs beyond Europe to cover the eastern US, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Canary Islands.
People throughout Europe will benefit from closer scientific ties between the EU and India as a result of the groundbreaking visit by research commissioner Janez Potočnik to the country earlier this week.
The market for digital media online, including music, movies and games, is fast expanding. A recent report forecasts revenue of as much as €8.3bn by 2010 in Europe alone – a fourfold increase in four years.
Research was given a boost at the launch of the EU's seventh research framework programme in Bonn on 15-16 January. The programme, which will run until 2013, will fund research worth over €53bn.
The leading information society technology event – IST2006, in Helsinki on
21‑23 November – will showcase new technologies, the latest research results,
workshops, robots and much more. And to guarantee continued success, the EU has
announced a budget of €9bn for its new technology research programme.
Commission reveals the five winners of this year's Marie Curie excellence awards: Michal Lavidor, Frank Keppler, Chris Ewels, Nicolas Cerf and Paola Borri. Assisted by EU funding, each winner had excelled in their respective field of research.
A proposal to set up a European Institute of Technology, to become
operational in 2008, has been brought before the European Parliament and the
Council. It is hoped that this institute could bridge Europe's innovation gap
by translating its knowledge and research into commercial activities. The EIT
would take the form of a two-tier structure bringing together a Governing Board
to set the strategic priorities, and Knowledge and Innovation Communities to
integrate innovation, research and education. The institute would receive both
public and private funding of an estimated €2.4 billion for 2008-2013.
Cutting-edge research came under the microscope on 22 September as science
events were held all over Europe. The Researchers' Night for 2006 proposed a
wide variety of activities in more than 20 European countries.
The EU and its 6 partner countries met in Brussels on 24 May to give the
formal go-ahead to the construction of the world's largest experimental nuclear
fusion reactor, ITER.
