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[Date: 2009-11-20]
A report published on 19 November by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) says that the growth of Web 2.0 is allowing Internet users to play an important role in the way that commercial and public products and services are shaped and used. Web 2.0, a term for the 'second wave' of the world wide web, is characterised by applications with user-generated ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-19]
The FramingNano ('International multi-stakeholder dialogue platform framing the responsible development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies') project is organising its final conference on 15 December in Brussels, Belgium.
Aiming to provide recommendations for the sustainable and successful use and development of nanotechnologies, the event will offer an opportunity to discuss the Governance Framework ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-18]
A consultation meeting on service and social robotics for the ageing population and the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) will be held on 2 December in Brussels, Belgium.
Bringing together experts from all over Europe, the objective of the workshop is to review current trends in research and applications in the field of service and social robotics and provide strategic guidance for drafting the FP7 Information ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-18]
The European Commission's Directorate-General for Research is calling for proposals under the Marie Curie Cofund ('Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes') scheme.
The Cofund scheme offers additional funding to existing or new regional and national fellowship programmes for research training and career development in order to encourage researcher' movement across borders.
Applicants ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-17]
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious EUR 2.5 million Advanced Grant to the Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (TU Delft) for its work in bio-nano research.
The ERC, funded under the 'Ideas' Theme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), is the first EU funding body set up to support challenging new research and advance excellence in creative ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-17]
EU-funded researchers are building a services development platform that, once complete, could combat credit card fraud, mobile telephone SIM card cloning and even fraudulent unpaid telephone calls in real time. The breakthrough is possible via a technological advance that would significantly increase the current speed of data processing.
The platform is being built as part of the STREAM ('Scalable autonomic ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-17]
In the framework of the eServices Europa project, the INNOVA Europe initiative is organising an e-services conference on 26 and 27 November in Lisbon, Portugal.
The conference seeks to stimulate the deployment and uptake of information and communication technology (ICT) by European citizens, governments and businesses. The event opens with the presentation of the next EU ICT call programme (WP 2010), after ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-16]
A team of German researchers has successfully tracked a key protein in the HIV (human immuno-deficiency virus) intercellular infection and virus assembly process in real time. Their partly EU-funded research now published in the open-access journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Pathogens has improved our understanding of the Gag (group-specific antigen) protein's infectious route from cell to cell, and ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-16]
The EU has long recognised the importance of ensuring that European research is rooted firmly in society and is responsive to its needs. In the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), efforts to reinforce the societal dimension of research are channelled through the 'Science in society' (SIS) programme. The SIS programme supports activities focusing on the governance of the research system, research ethics, ... read more
[Date: 2009-11-13]
A team of partly EU-funded researchers from Spain have gained new insights into the physiology of cockroaches. Their findings, now published in the open-access journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Genetics, could ultimately help develop new strategies for controlling this pest.
In addition to grants offered by the Spanish government, part of the funding for this research came out of the CRAB ('Combating ... read more
