Raising Europe's game: how to create a research council that is a Champions League for science

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The first pan-European meeting on science and technology in society will be held in August 2004 in Stockholm, where it is expected that a session on the proposed European Research Council (ERC), which is being discussed by the European Commission in Brussels, may take place. To create a successful ERC, it is important that the ERC is based on the virtues of the United States (US) National Science Foundation and should adopt the principles of peer-reviewed scientific excellence, minimum bureaucracy hurdles, and should not exist at the expense of national funding.

Europe, Organization formation

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Communication breakdown

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National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) at Mill Hill in North London is concentrating on the Britain's Medical Research Council's (MRC's) draft strategic document, over the migration of the institute in Cambridge. MRC argues that the proposed relocation will be beneficial and allows NIMR to work together in new projects of the company.

Research & Development, Research & Development NEC, Research institutes, Location

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Never had it so good? The Blair-Brown era has been a golden one for British science

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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown benefit British science and scientists, due to their dedication to science and technology. Both view science and innovation at the top of national modernization project.

Strategy & planning, Government domestic functions, Services information, Science, Space & Technology, Evaluation, Services, Blair, Tony, Science and technology policy, Science and state, Science policy, Aims and objectives, Brown, Gordon (British politician)

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