04/00 RDT INFO N. 29

Directorate-General For Research And Innovation European Commission

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* * • • * **|P ■ 29 RESEARCH EUROPEAN April 2001 ω MAD COW DISEASE, A SOURCE OF WISDOM? NT ■ -?:■ I . . M ,.·. ^BÉKTÍ ïTiTH­j lil r^% Î*B*Î*]ÎI1*J^H E­J the greenhouse effect? ^^BakaÉUitÉHMaiHM^H ^^β? MEDICINE Miffii ËB CONTENTS RTD info N° 29 Aprii 2001 Mad cow disease, a source of wisdom? Editorial Investigating the past FEATURE ;SE to unlock the present Apart from triggering a health scare, the BSE Transformation crisis has also proved a revelation. Highlight­ Research in action ing the tensions of the increasingly complex It is no coincidence: just as the Commission is relations between science and society. 1 So who are these proposing a new approach for the framework pro­experts exactly? gramme for the period 2002-2006, RTD info is also changing, to improve its treatment of the chal­ A testing race lenges European research is now facing. The proposal for the Commission's new framework FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME NATURAL SCIENCES programme (see opposite), currently before the The hidden heritage of A new look for Council and Parliament, features a number of inno­European research natural history collections vations. First, it is an explicit part of the European Research Area, of which it becomes, in a sense, the A first look at the Commission's Europe is home to the world's richest proposals in the context of the European collections of natural sciences. This valuable financing arm. This approach is shown by the pro­Research Area.

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• Sciences et techniques

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-RESEARCH-AND-INNOVATION-EUROPEAN-COMMISSION
• Nombre de lectures: 28
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 13 Mo

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