Community Research and Development Information Service - CORDIS

 

Welcome to the CORDIS National Service.

This service provides information on the national policies and frameworks for research throughout the European Union’s Member States, candidate countries, associated countries and countries with S&T cooperation agreements. It also gives the latest research-related news and activities of the current and previous presidencies of the Council of the European Union.

Highlights on Council Presidency Service

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Swedish Council Presidency: 2009-07 - 2009-12

Research shows gene interaction can cause aggressive leukaemia

2009-11-04

A scientific research team from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has discovered that two genes, both of which are known to cause cancer individually, can lead to aggressive leukaemia if they interact. The unexpected results, published in the scientific journal Blood, may lead to new treatments for aggressive forms of leukaemia... read more

Previous Presidencies on CORDIS

Member States News

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How foreign language subtitles give speech perception a boost

2009-11-12

New research suggests people should read subtitles in the original language of the film being watched if they want to really improve their second-language listening ability. Contrary to what most people think, reading subtitles in your native language will lessen your ability to understand foreign speech. The findings of the study are published in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE... read more

 

News on Associated Countries

2009-10-05

EU supports centre of excellence in Croatia... read more

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S&T cooperation agreements

2009-11-09

Conference on ethics, biometrics policy and international data sharing, Hong Kong, China... read more