4. July 2008
A better image for plastic solar cells
EUROCORES’ SONS 2 Programme demonstrates new nanostructure measurements [more]
4. July 2008
Most European countries equipped to safeguard research integrity, ESF report finds
Instances of serious research misconduct such as the Hwang case in Korea are fortunately rare but the case does beg the bigger question of whether national research organisations in Europe have adequate policies and practises to safeguard research integrity. A report recently released by the... [more]
2. July 2008
ESF joins forces with the European Commission in launching a European Research Infrastructures portal
As a follow up to their successful collaboration, alongside EUROHORCs, in compiling the 2nd European Survey of Research Infrastructures during 2007, the ESF and the EC have launched a joint activity to increase the mapping of European-level RI to create a resource for the benefit of... [more]
30. June 2008
The Barcode of Life
EuroBioForum to showcase initiative to calibrate Europe’s biodiversity using DNA Barcodes [more]
27. June 2008
Podcast: Professor Marja Makarow on the Millennium Technology Prize
The Chief Executive of the ESF (ESF) Professor Marja Makarow speaks about the Millennium Technology Prize that was held in Helsinki, Finland on 11 June 2008. [more]
27. June 2008
Unravelling the “Inconvenient Truth” of glacier movement
Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater understanding of the processes at work when ice is under stress,... [more]
26. June 2008
Editorial: Road map with vision for the ERA
Please click here for an editorial written by ESF President Professor Ian Halliday on The ESF EUROHORCs Science Policy Briefing 33: The EUROHORCs and ESF Vision on a Globally Competitive ERA and their Road Map for Actions to Help Build it. For more details about the Action Plan – please go to... [more]
25. June 2008
EUROHORCs , ESF commit to play key role in shaping a competitive ERA
In an effort to help build a competitive European Research Area (ERA), the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs) and the European Science Foundation (ESF) have published their vision on the ERA and have joined forces in a Road Map with proposed actions to achieve it. The ESF... [more]
19. June 2008
European Science Foundation aims to strengthen regenerative medicine
14 Member Organisations* of the European Science Foundation have launched a key initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of regenerative medicine; broadly defined as the development of stem cell therapies to restore lost, damaged, or ageing cells and tissues in the human body.Stem cells are the... [more]
17. June 2008
EuroDYNA leaves healthy genomic research ecosystem as legacy
Europe’s position as a major player in genome research has been boosted by the European Science Foundation’s three-year EUROCORES programme EuroDYNA. As it draws to a close, EuroDYNA (Dynamic Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Function) is leaving behind a healthy European ecosystem of interacting... [more]
