The Eighth European Conference on Euratom Research and Training in Reactor Systems (FISA 2013) will be held from 14 to 17 October 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The development and safe operation of nuclear installations in Europe is of vital importance for the future of nuclear energy. Helping ensure the safe generation of nuclear power has always been one of the top priorities of the Euratom Framework ...

The Eighth European Commission Conference on the Management of Radioactive Waste will take place from 14 to 16 October 2013 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Radioactive waste is not only produced in those states that use nuclear power for electricity generation, but also by many other applications, be it radiotherapies or industrial tests. It's safe management is therefore a challenge for all Member States, irrespective ...

From the city's mean streets to Facebook, the police are responding to ever-changing developments and have expanded their beat from the streets outside our door to the virtual pathways of social media, and in so doing, making sure that people are kept safe and criminals apprehended. A new report discusses in detail how social media can be used to support police work - from compiling criminal profiles based ...

A West Nile virus outbreak in 2010 was responsible for the deaths of 35 people in Greece. Can wild or migratory birds influence the import and increase of West Nile virus? A Greek-British team of researchers led by the University of Thessaly in Greece investigated whether they can, finding evidence that wild birds could have permitted West Nile virus maintenance and amplification before and during the virus ...

An international consortium of scientists has launched the EMERALD global mental health project to improve mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LAMICs). The project is funded with EUR 5.8 million by the European Union, under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 2007/2013).

EMERALD stands for 'emerging mental health systems in low- and middle-income countries'. The project is being ...

Running helps individuals improve their health and well-being, but runners do sustain injuries from time to time. Researchers say that of the 80 million runners in Europe, more than 37 million suffered a running injury during practice in the last year.

A team of scientists in Spain are working on lowering the risk of such injury by designing a new running shoe that integrates a measuring device to provide ...

Awareness of age-related illnesses and research is set to get a boost thanks to a new EU project - A Sharing Approach to Promoting Science (ASAPS) - aimed at raising public awareness on health-related scientific research focusing on ageing. The ASAPS project has been awarded EUR 1 million in funding by the European Commission under its Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). As it currently stands, by 2050 the ...

European research in renewable energy has received an additional boost with the recent commencement of the KESTCELLS research project. With a total budget of more than EUR 3.7 million it aims to develop a network for the interdisciplinary training of researchers in advanced thin films photovoltaic (PV) technologies. The researchers believe that their research will provide Europe with leading edge technologies ...

The 'Hands on Training in Nuclear Chemistry' will take place on from 3 to 14 December 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic.

The lack of trained nuclear chemical specialists has been identified in all branches of the nuclear sector and also in other areas where skills in NRC are required, such as radiopharmacy, nuclear medicine, radiation protection, radioecology, and many others. Retraining general chemistry ...

An EU study has been launched to research the importance of lifelong learning and its impact in the workplace.

Research to date has generated little evidence on how human capital is created through lifelong learning activities by individuals, companies and public bodies across Europe. To change this, 25 researchers have been assigned to the LLLight'in'Europe project. This project will have funding allocation ...