News about Latvia
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European research and innovation efforts are set to receive a significant increase in funding with the announcement of the largest set of calls for proposals ever under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Worth a total of EUR 8.1 billion, projects funded by these calls are open to organisations and businesses in all EU Member States, FP7 partner states and specifically eligible countries.
The calls ...
If you thought your health and well-being are the only things affected by what you eat, think again. New research from Finland shows how you can help mitigate the burden and risks triggered by hazardous substances found in the food supply chain, by choosing the right foods and following dietary guidelines. Researchers from the Foodweb project, coordinated by MTT) Agrifood Research Finland, put the spotlight ...
The WATERPRAXIS project final seminar will take place from 11 to 12 January 2012 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Partially funded by the European Union, the 'From theory and plans to eco-efficient and sustainable practices to improve the status of the Baltic Sea' (WATERPRAXIS) project has sought to improve the status of the Baltic Sea by assisting the implementation of river basin management plans in the region. ...
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 ...
Have temperature changes forced creatures to evolve in the last 40 years? A new international research study led by The Open University in the United Kingdom investigated this by getting more than 6 000 people in 15 European countries to observe banded snails in open public spaces and in their gardens. The findings, published in the journal PLoS ONE, suggest that other selective agents, such as predation ...
Efforts to increase the number of years Europeans live in good health are about to get stronger thanks to a EUR 4.2 million injection of funds made available by the EU to researchers. Under the European Commission's Active and Health Ageing Innovation Partnership, healthy life expectancy will increase by two years between now and 2020, effectively mitigating people's concerns about ageing and well-being.
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An event entitled 'International FP7 space information day' will take place from 18 to 19 July 2011 in Riga, Latvia.
The event will seek to combine information dissemination activities, by providing participants with useful and practical information on space-related calls, with giving future applicants the chance to find potential project partners.
The event programme on the first day will focus on Baltic ...
Riga, Latvia
The Ninth International Conference on Modelling in Medicine and Biology will take place from 26 to 28 July 2011 in Riga, Latvia.
Advances in medical and biological technology are transforming medical care and treatment. In part, this is the result of the interaction and collaboration between medical sciences and engineering. This has resulted in substantial progress in health care and in the quality of ...
A workshop on user-oriented information integration will be held from 6 to 8 October 2011 in Riga, Latvia.
There are two main approaches to information integration - virtualisation and materialisation. With the former, data is stored in data sources and integration is virtual using a global schema which contains data source attributes. The latter sees data integrated, transformed and stored according to ...
The 6th International Conference on the Impact of Environmental Factors on Health" will take place on 25 to 27 July 2011 in Riga, Latvia.
Health problems related to the environment have become a major source of concern all over the world. The health of the population depends upon good quality environmental factors including air, water, soil, food and many others. Society 's aim is to establish measures ...
