Co-ordination of National and Regional Marine RTD Programmes in Europe: the MarinERA project

MarinERA is an EU 6th Framework Programme Era-Net with a total funding of 2.954 millions euros from 2004-2008. MarinERA is a partnership of the leading Marine RTD Funding Organisations in 13 European Member and Accession States, supported by the Marine Board of the European Science Foundation...

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Amos Bairoch awarded European Latsis Prize 2004

The European Science Foundation will award this years European Latsis Prize to Professor Amos Bairoch from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland, for his fundamental pioneering contribution to the development of bioinformatics. The prize ceremony will take place at the Hotel...

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ESF CEO Bertil Andersson elected Fellow* of Imperial College

With reference to the Imperial College it was announced today Wednesday the 27 October that Bertil Andersson is among this year's distinguished academics to be elected to the Fellowship of Imperial College London. He will be formally admitted to the Fellowship by Rector Sir Richard Sykes at the...

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'AURORA BOREALIS’: Europe's Arctic Flagship - A long term Science perspective for deep Arctic ocean research

The proposed construction of a European Arctic Flagship ‘AURORA BOREALIS’, the 250 Million Euro joint European Research Icebreaker with a deep drilling capability would result in a considerable commitment of the participating nations to coordinate and expand their Polar Research Programmes. Recent...

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Press release- EURYI awards 2004 - New way of thinking in European science funding

Thursday 26 August 2004 at 19.00, 25 brilliant young researchers received the EURYI award  at the EuroScience Open Forum in Stockholm. The 25 awards of 1,000,000 € – 1,250,000 € each are comparable in size to the Nobel Prize. President of EUROHORCS Professor Ernst Ludvig Winnacker and CEO of...

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EURYI Award 2004 - Press meeting

The EURYI awards will present 25 young and outstanding scientists who will be awarded up to 1.250.000 € each to create their own research team in Europe. The European Young Investigator awards (EURYI) are offered by 18 European research organisations from 15 countries in an open competition with no...

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Oldest Antarctic ice core reveals climate history

Secrets of the Earth’s past climate locked in a three-kilometre long Antarctic ice core are revealed this week in the journal Nature. The core from Dome C, high on East Antarctica’s plateau, contains snowfall from the last 740,000 years and is by far the oldest continuous climate record obtained...

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How many species in Noah’s Ark ?

The remarkable increase, towards the end of 20th Century in the rate of species extinctions and the loss of biological diversities in the planet’s ecosystems have generated considerable concern on the consequences that, beyond the severe damage of the losses themselves, these losses may have on the...

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