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By Monica Dobie

European university scientists have designed a virtual reality system that allows users to visit and walk around a digitised environment, helping the tourist, town planning, architectural and medical sectors. As a test, their ‘CyberCarpet’ system has allowed users to visit the Roman Empire Italian town of Pompeii and experience it before it was decimated by Vesuvius in 79AD.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE GERMAN government is pushing for changes to the European Union’s (EU) renewable energy package so that member states have to opt-into a guarantee of origin green energy trading system, rather than opt-out, as presently proposed. Berlin officials said they were concerned that red-tape required to secure opt-outs could be time consuming, which could create "damaging uncertainty" in the EU renewable energy sector.…

By Keith Nuthall

Imagine an intelligent transport system so clever, that it could tell a motorist how fast to drive in a city to avoid all red lights in a given journey. And then also imagine a system that could also advise a driver how to motor at the most constant speed possible, avoiding unnecessary accelerations and braking, saving gallons of fuel and engine wear-and-tear to boot.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE LOW Countries markets of Belgium and the Netherlands are a good place to take Europe’s converting industry temperature as it rides the recession this year. There is no denying that business is down in this key European region, but there are certainly no signs of melt-down and converters in this country appear well positioned to exploit an economic recovery, when it comes.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN EXPERT scientific report from the European Commission has suddenly made it respectable to talk once again about lifting the European Union (EU) ban on snus, the smokeless tobacco product from Sweden whose sale in other member states has been prohibited by an EU directive since 1992.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Pesticides Action Network (PAN) pressure group has claimed independent tests have revealed wines sold in the European Union (EU) may contain residues of 10 potentially harmful pesticides. It examined 40 EU-purchased bottles from Bordeaux, Burgundy, Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Africa, Australia and Chile – 34 conventional and six organic: the conventional wines contained 148 pesticide residues in total, having one to 10 pesticides each – an average-per-bottle exceeding four.…

By Keith Nuthall

Britain’s Open University has drawn on international commercial talent to advise its managers on how to develop its business school. The country’s first virtual higher education institution, which pioneered the use of televised lectures and correspondence courses, is hoping a panel of experts will highlight opportunities for growth that would otherwise be missed.…

By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

By Monica Dobie

University World News here again features a selection of commercially important and cutting edge higher education research developments.

*Researchers from the Max Planck Institute, Germany, have developed a genetic tool that can help speed the development of new genetic varieties of food crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project involving major automobile manufacturers has created a system that protects vans and cars from collisions with other vehicles, including lorries, just before a crash. The EU Euro 29 million Advanced Protection Systems (APROSYS) project system automatically boosts the side-protection strength of cars threatened with such accidents, protecting them from impacts.…