EU awards €575 million to mid-career researchers
European Commission
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A desert or a tsunami: fearing Big Data
What will be the data environment in Horizon 2020? Modern science is facing a huge challenge in managing data. On one hand, every year a big number of the scientific data are lost or become not readable any more. On the other hand, 80 billion Euro investments in research (that is the expected budget for Horizon 2020) could lead to an unbearable amount of data, that cannot be managed easily – with a loss of efficiency and a huge waste of public money. Eventually, one of the highest goal of Horizon 2020 will be to face Big Data.
It's time to shed light on the Stamina affaire
Two science journalists, support from citizens and an e-book, to shed light on the Stamina affaire.
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Read time: 2 minsSubmitted by Michele Bellone on 19 January, 2014 - 20:48
Rosetta comet chaser set to wake up on Monday after three years' sleep
The Guardian
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Positive results for the EuroChar project
The Italian National Research Council (CNR) coordinates EuroChar, a European project dedicated to the development of technologies for long-term carbon sequestration and large-scale removal of greenhouse gases (GHG) from the atmosphere. EuroChar investigates carbon sequestration potentials achieved by transforming plant biomass into charcoal (or Biochar) that can be added to agricultural soils. EuroChar is a part of the Seventh Framework Programme, it started in 2011 and it was to
Physiological data must remain confidential
Nature
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Seven Days - Nature news in brief
Nature
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An ECDC report on seasonal influenza vaccination
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The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recently released a technical report in support of the Council Recommendation on seasonal influenza vaccination that the European Union (EU) Council adopted in December 2009. Aim of this Recommendation was to ask for
Open Innovation - A Handbook for Researchers
Do you know @HenryChesbrough? He used the term open innovation for the first time in 2003 and is now working as executive director of the programme in open innovation at the University of California. According to him, sharing ideas and technology can reduce costs and time spent in research, making unused innovations more accessible to external users. Of course it is always important to protect the intellectual property rights of the original
PISA score and expenditure: bad, good and better investments in education
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Read time: 2 minsSubmitted by Sergio Cima on 14 January, 2014 - 11:37School
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