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Keith Nuthall
THE EUROPEAN Commission is improving its auditing of scientific research projects receiving European Union (EU) money after the EU’s financial watchdog the Court of Auditors criticised past accounting controls.

It said that the Commission could have better monitored its outgoing EU Fifth Framework Programme for research (budget Euro 14.9 billion), which is being replaced in January by the Euro 16.2 billion Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).…

BY MARK ROWE
EUROPEAN scientists have been granted pioneering access to Tibet in the hope of discovering industrial catalysts that could lead to a new generation of chemicals for textile production.

The research team from Britain’s Leicester and Seville universities will next year visit pristine soda lakes, salt lakes and hot springs rich in microbial biodiversity.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A BID has been launched by the European Commission to create a network of major radioactive waste management organisations across Europe, to boost co-operation on research into the disposal of radioactive waste. Brussels wants groups from seven European Union (EU) Member States – Belgium, Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Spain and Sweden – as well as Switzerland, to join the Net.Excel…

BY MARK ROWE
A TEAM of scientists has visited Bosnia and Herzegovina amidst concerns that 12 areas of the country were contaminated with harmful radiation after being targeted by ordnance containing depleted uranium (DU) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GROUNDBREAKING development aid scheme has been launched with the support of the European Commission, which specifically promotes the development of Internet networks and related e-commerce in poorer areas of Europe. The Euro 4.35 million e-MINDER scheme will target Cyprus, Galicia, (Spain), and Pomerania, (Poland), pump-priming small and medium-sized businesses to develop e-commerce projects, boosting regional economies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched a package of services designed to help businesses and other organisations reduce the exposure of their staff to workplace stress, a problem it says affects 28 per cent of employees in the European Union (EU).…

BY PHILIP FINE

THIS past year, a senior American scientific panel studied the idea of consumers

eating food derived from cloned animals and they came up with an answer. At the end of the summer, they said they could find nothing unsafe about it.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN researchers have programmed a satellite computer operating 800 kilometres above the surface of the Earth to repair itself from blasts of potentially catastrophic space radiation, such as those emitted by a sun spot this week. Scientists from the Canberra-based Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRCSS) used a combination of smart software and components called Field Programmable Gate Arrays to create their self-healing computer on the satellite FedSat.…

BY MARK ROWE
MANY air traffic control (ATC) organisations experience difficulties in attracting sufficient qualified staff. Indeed, the air transport industry does not seem to be as attractive an employer as it used to be. As a result, CANSO is examining selection and scaling methods, benchmarking qualification requirements, and evaluating common programmes for attracting new applicants.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
WHEN IATA’s Director General and CEO, Pierre J Jeanniot, spoke at the opening of his organisation’s 58th AGM and the World Air Transport Summit in Shanghai on June 3, 2002, he lamented the industry’s losses of US$12 billion the previous year.…