Science at the sharp end of oppressive politics
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Horizon 2020: now's the time
Horizon 2020 finally goes into the executive phase. It is the new European funding system for research and innovation, that is now replacing the seventh Framework Programme (FP7), ended in December 2013.
Therefore, European research has to face new opportunities as well as new rules, new issues and new administrative and normative challenges. With about 30 research institutions located in its territory, Trieste is a peculiar site in Europe both for basic research and for innovation and technology transfer.
Laser fusion experiment extracts net energy from fuel
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On Tuesday 18h February, at Assaggi bookstore in Rome, the science café "Migrant researchers" will be held.
Des universités se désabonnent des revues scientifiques
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Scientific research: Italy calls Europe
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European and US research policies: which direction for 2014?
Some weeks ago, the European Union released the planned quotas of investment in research for 2014, the first year of the new-born Horizon 2020 program. At the same time, on January 13th the US Congress agreed on a budget, containing the American policy about investments in research. Thus, is it possible to predict in which directions EU and US research will go, by comparing these two draft budgets? Will these two policies merge or not?
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UK 'absolutely committed' to reducing animals used in research
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The future is just around the corner
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The missing link between Ricordi and Medestea
On the stage where the so-called “Stamina case” is being performed – a tragedy disguised as a farce – reflectors have not lightened yet the female protagonists, who are still remaining in the shadows. Or maybe there is where the male actors want to keep them: the star, Davide Vannoni; his right-hand man, Marino Andolina; the deus ex machina, Gianfranco Merizzi, president of Medestea, the company holder of the proprietary rights for the so-called “Stamina method”.