Monday, February 28th, 2011
Dublin is the European City of Science next year and will host the biennial EuroScience Open Forum (Esof 2012) from July 12th to 15th. The event is expected to bring together more than 5,000 scientists, business leaders, government officials, policy- makers and international scientific media representatives to discuss the best of European science. It will
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The all clear has been given for Europe to press ahead with the 3.4bn-euro (£2.9bn) project to build a next-generation weather satellite system. Eumetsat, the international agency charged with looking after Europe’s Meteosats, said on Friday that all participating nations had now agreed to the programme and its financing. The new system should bring a step change
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The European Commission has today adopted rules to harmonise information between all the actors involved in creating the Single European Sky (SES). Member States decided to put an end to the fragmentation of Europe’s air space by creating between themselves nine common geographical air spaces by December 2012: the Functional Airspace Blocks (FABs). The Regulation
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Net cash flow to the government from the State’s Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2010 was NOK 104 billion, up almost NOK 7 billion from the year before, Petoro reports. Read More
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Federal cabinet minister Tony Clement says expanding access to the internet in Canada is “critical.” Clement met behind closed doors with a group of information technology firms in Saskatoon. Read More
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
The 2011 Alberta Provincial Budget calls for $4.6 billion over the next three years for the provincial highway network, including $1.7 billion for capital projects in 2011-12. In addition to $199 million in scholarships, grants and debt management tools, a total of $267 million in student loans will be available in 2011-12. This will provide needs-based
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
The Rwandan government plans to boost agricultural production through its Crop Intensification Programme and a range of post-harvest measures to reduce waste from the 2011 season onwards. Read More
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Russian oil company Bashneft has won the tenders for development of the oil fields Trebs and Titov in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Read More
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
The Baltic Sea currently has the most extensive ice cover that it has seen in 24 years. On Thursday, 310,000 square kilometres of the sea were covered in ice, and the area is growing. The ice is at its thickest in coastal areas of the northern reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia, where it has
Saturday, February 26th, 2011
The risk that people will commit fraud with the new public transport smart card is not enough reason to keep the paper ticket system, transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen said on Friday. The minister had halted the scrapping of paper tickets in Zuid-Holland province because of revelations about how easy it is to travel for