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A PUBLIC-private partnership that is preparing to start its second phase in 2014 wants to make fuel cells and hydrogen a market reality in Europe in the years to come, according to Bert De Colvenaer, its executive director.

“The fuel cells and hydrogen technology is ready for demonstration, but it will take another couple of years before it is ready for market,” De Colvenaer said, speaking during an European Parliament event held in Brussels.…

ITALIAN government officials are finalising a major funding and standards scheme for universities, which they hope will be enacted despite Italy’s endemic political instability. The plan has been developed by Italy’s ministry of education, university and research (MIUR), and will span three years (2013-2015), setting higher academic standards for both state and non-state universities.…

THE EUROPEAN Parliament has voted to reduce the support the European Union (EU) gives to the traditional biofuel sector, backing European Commission proposals to amend the renewable energy directive (2009/28/EC). MEPs agreed that the law should insist that first-generation biofuels (from long-standing sources, notably food crops) should not exceed 6% of EU energy consumption in transport by 2020, compared to the 10% target for all biofuels in the existing legislation.…

You might think the last thing a nurse wants to do in their free time is travel to a potentially dangerous region of the world. But many British nurses have been volunteering to share their expertise and make a difference outside of the NHS in Somaliland.…

INDIA’S nonwoven technical textile industry is facing mixed fortunes as various different segments face diverging growth patterns. While the companies involved in the manufacturing of hygiene and baby care-related products are expanding their operations, those involved in low-end packing materials are barely recovering their costs.…

Given its location, political actors and recent history, Lebanon has long been under the international regulatory spotlight. The US Treasury’s fingering of the Lebanese Canadian Bank in 2011 for money laundering concerns rocked its financial sector. Beirut has since been scrambling to address any short-comings, while at the same time dealing with sanctions on neighbouring Syria.…

MEXICO’S new president Enrique Peña Nieto, who came to office in December 2012, promised a less militaristic fight against the country’s increasingly violent drug trade, so his government’s implementation of a new anti-money laundering (AML) law will be watched closely.

Past president Felipe Calderón launched a severe military-led crackdown against the country’s drug cartels towards the end of 2006, around 80,000 people have since been killed in drug-related violence since.…

The European Commission has announced funding for three major research projects designed to promote innovation in the non-ferrous metals sector. They will be launched on Wednesday (Nov 6) and funded by the EU’s outgoing Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7), which ends next month (December 31).…

American scientists have developed a zinc-gold-copper alloy that is finely calibrated to be reshaped many times without losing strength. Speaking to Metal Bulletin, Professor Richard James, of the University of Minnesota, said that the alloy could have bulk applications and that with care, could be made by metal manufacturers: “For large applications, this is no problem.…

THE SECOND round of the European Union’s (EU) Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2) that starts in the New Year has been designed to ease funding applications by interested companies and other organisations forming consortia to develop innovative drugs, according to Michel Goldman, IMI executive director.…