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June 2014

First high-level meeting about Health2020 vision

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 30 June, 2014 - 15:23


3–4 July 2014, San Marino, San Marino

Countries in the WHO European Region with populations under 1 million – Andorra, Cyprus, Iceland, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro and San Marino – will take part in a two-day meeting convened by WHO/Europe and hosted by San Marino. The aim is to foster the implementation of the Health 2020 framework in such countries by improving cooperation between them.

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Italy joins the ESS project

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 29 June, 2014 - 09:19

Italy will join the ESS Project (European Spallation Source), the multidisciplinary research center, intented to be by far the most powerful neutron source in the world, almost 30 times brighter than the others, with capabilities that far exceed those of the SNS (Oak Ridge, USA), J-PARC (Japan) and the UK’s own ISIS facility. Italy will participate with the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), the National Research Council (CNR) and Elettra Synchrotron Trieste. 

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Who are the most influential scientists? Here is the ranking

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di Michele Bellone
Submitted by Michele Bellone on 27 June, 2014 - 17:55

The multinational media and information firm Thomson Reuters carried out an analysis of scientific production in the last eleven years, in order to identify the world’s most influential scientific minds. This work was based on data from the Web of Science platform, produced and maintained by Thomson Reuters’ experts, which gathers citation indexes from scientific literature – journals, conference proceedings, abstract, etcetera – grouped based on the related discipline.

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Populist parties and the European scientific policies

di Giacomo Destro
Pubblicato il 27/06/2014
Scientific research policy

The biggest surprise in the European Parliament elections has been the victory of the so called Eurosceptic and Europhobic parties, such as the Front National (FN, from France), the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip, from Uk) or the Dutch Party for Freedom. Despite their proclaims, these parties come from different backgrounds and have a different approach to science and research – as clearly shown by an analysis made by Science|Business. In other words, the percentages in