EUROPE: Universities and research centres must fight for fresh public ‘stimulus’ cash
January 1st, 2009
By Keith Nuthall
Higher education and research institutions will have to fight their corner to secure the additional public spending being made available in Europe this year, as politicians loosen their purse strings to head off economic depression.
Before Christmas, European Union (EU) heads of government approved a major economic stimulus package, designed to pump ? 200 billion into European economies, mainly coming from national government budgets (around ?170 billion), but with the EU and the European Investment Bank releasing an additional Euro 30 ...
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