EU RESEARCH MONEY

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has announced its first Euro 166 million tranche of funding for food and food safety projects, via the EU's Sixth Framework Programme on research, which will spend Euro 16.5 million on all subjects until 2006. While not releasing individual budgets for successful projects, it highlighted the funding of a "key network of excellence," involving 29 participants, on prion diseases such as BSE. It aims to provide European researchers with "an effective communication strategy with the public, with policy makers and between ...


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