EuCheMS Brussels News Updates
EuCheMS Brussels News Update
The April News covers the following issues
- Spring Summit
- Shift in the focus of Lisbon Agenda
- The Fifth Freedom
- Energy and Climate Change
- 2009 to be European Year of Creativity and Innovation
- Ban on mercury imports and exports by 2010?
- Disagreement over pesticide substances
- Possible VAT cuts on green goods
- European Business and Technology Centre in New Delhi, India
- Joint action to monitor impact of climate change in ACP countries
- A landmark in ERA:Trans-Domain Proposals
- Mix and Match: new EU guide to research funding
- Research infrastructures: from ideas to practice
- Over €21 million for Science in society
- MEPs vote on scientific data on climate change
- Chemical classification
- GEEREF: a new EU global green energy fund
- EU and biofuels
- Green light to EIT
- Warning over EU’s ageing science workforce
- Unchanged R&D spending
EuCheMS Brussels News Update April 2008
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EuCheMS Brussels News Update March 2008
Competitiveness Council urges increased research spending and coordination; trategic Energy Technology Plan Gets Green Light; Commission planning new initiatives on energy efficiency in 2008; Member states outline research and innovation priorities; Research infrastructure and the Lisbon objectives; Modernisation of Universities; New Forum to Strengthen University – Business Cooperation; Two JTIs to boost Europe’ s competitiveness; Joint Action to Battle Greenhouse Emissions; Alliances for Exploring Toxicity; REACH Metals Gateway; Autonomy and Accountability of University Activities; A new watchdog on teaching standards; EU and Methane to Markets Partnership; Nanotech faces moral opposition in the US; Beauty, Safety and the Nanoworld
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EuCheMS Brussels News Update February 2008
Commission Climate & Energy Proposals; Future of Research Funding – Beyond 2010; Code of Conduct for Responsible Nanosciences; Taking Forward the ERA; FP7 one year on; Potocnik Supports 'Sensible' Biofuels Production; Piebalgs Responds to Biofuels Criticism; Improved European System for Environmental Information; Limited Progress on Energy Savings; EU Carbon Storage Proposals; Pesticides 'Crucial' for EU Food Supply; New Rules for Toys; Commission proposals on food labelling; Ethics - Cloning Animals for Food
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EuCheMS Brussels News Update January 2008
EU Presidency: Priorities for Research, Future of Research Funding, ERC Scientific Council Guidelines for Open Access, European Research Council awards first grants, Lead Market Initiative to Unlock Innovative Markets, Commission Takes Steps to Cut Industrial Emissions Further, Ministers Want Progress on Human Biomonitoring, Development of Novel Foods
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