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	'Cloud and security - threat or opportunity?', Rennes, France
An event entitled 'Cloud and security - threat or opportunity?' will take place from 20 to 22 November 2012 in Rennes, France. The adoption of cloud computing challenges existing information technology operations and associated risk …
	'Health and biotech brokerage event', Rome, Italy
The 'Health and biotech brokerage event' will take place on 13 June 2012 in Rome, Italy. The conference is being organised by the Italian Agency for the Promotion of the European Research. It will highlight the 2013 Work Programme of …
	First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-Aware Search, Pafos, Cyprus
The First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-Aware Search will take place from 27 September 2012 in Pafos, Cyprus. Digital libraries and scholarly information systems face major information retrieval challenges. Vagueness between …
	First International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband, Barcelona, Spain
The First International Workshop on Community Networks and Bottom-up-Broadband will take place on 8 October 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. Community networking is an emerging model where communities of citizens build, operate and own open IP-based …
	EU-funded food technology project to help alleviate poverty by preventing food losses
Millions of the world's poorest people in some of the most deprived regions could soon be helped by a new EU-funded food technology project that brings together researchers from Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. The 3-year project …
	First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-Aware Search, Pafos, Cyprus
The First International Workshop on Science-Model- and Task-Aware Search will take place from 27 September 2012 in Pafos, Cyprus. Digital libraries and scholarly information systems face major information retrieval challenges. Vagueness between …
	'Economics on the move: trends and challenges from the natural sciences', Zurich, Switzerland
An event entitled 'Economics on the move: trends and challenges from the natural sciences' will take place from 11 to 14 September 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. Recent insights from the behavioural sciences suggest that human behaviour …
	Researchers investigate hockey board safety
Hockey is one of the toughest sports games. Players need both finesse and speed on the ice, but they also need to be strong. Being slammed into the boards or glass while chasing the puck is hard on the body. And the stronger the players get, the …
	Sex chromosomes won't become extinct after all, say researchers
Scientists have refuted recent claims that sex-linked chromosomes such as the male Y chromosome could become extinct. The new claims have been made in a genetic study into the sex chromosomes of chickens, published in the journal Proceedings of …
	Call for strengthening the uptake of EU funds for Natura 2000
The European Commission has published a call for tenders for strengthening the uptake of EU funds for Natura 2000. Natura 2000 is the largest network of protected areas in the world, comprising more than 26,000 sites in all EU Member States. …
	Third International Conference on Microgeneration and Related Technologies, Naples, Italy
The Third International Conference on Microgeneration and Related Technologies will take place from 15 to 17 April 2013 in Naples, Italy. Microgeneration is the small-scale generation of heat and electric power by individuals, small businesses and …
	Fifth International Conference: From Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering, Athens, Greece
The Fifth International Conference: From Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering will take place from 4 to 7 July 2012 in Athens, Greece Computational science (or scientific computing) deals with constructing mathematical models and …
	Scientists shed light on giant manta ray movements
An international team of researchers provides insight into the movement of the giant manta ray, the world's largest ray measuring up to 25 feet (around 7 metres) in width. Presented in the journal PLoS ONE, the study used satellite telemetry …
	'EUROSPHERE final conference', Brussels, Belgium
The 'EUROSPHERE final conference' will take place on 22 June 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. The 'Diversity and the European public sphere - towards a citizen's Europe' (EUROSPHERE) project has studied European integration and …
	'IMI stakeholder forum and info sessions', Brussels, Belgium
The 'IMI stakeholder forum and info sessions' will take place on 30 May 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) is Europe's largest public-private partnership. It seeks to improve the drug development …
	Researchers investigate how nature helps to shape stars
German researchers have used state-of-the-art computer simulations to find the first evidence that the way in which stars form depends on their birth environment. Until now, it appeared that stars formed in the same manner everywhere. Stars are …
	Chimp shows cunning way to get target
The Furuvik Zoo in Sweden is home to Santino, the chimpanzee known for gathering stones and making concrete projectiles to throw at anyone visiting the zoo in 2009. But stone-throwing is not all that Santino does. A new study has found that the …
	'Simulation and EGSE facilities for space programmes', Noordwijk, the Netherlands
The 'Simulation and EGSE facilities for space programmes' conference will take place from 25 to 27 September 2012 in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Simulation is a key activity that supports the specification, design, verification and …
	Seventh Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge Workshop, Helsinki, Finland
The Seventh Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge Workshop will take place from 20 to 24 August 2012 in Brussels, Belgium. Motivation and objectives architectural knowledge are defined as the integrated representation of an architecture of …
	Europeans kick-start solar cell production project
Development of more efficient and cost-effective solar cells is high on the EU agenda. Helping drive this effort is the SCALENANO ('Development and scale-up of nanostructured-based materials and processes for low-cost high-efficiency …
	Spot the difference? Super-cool brown dwarf helps distinguish dwarfs and giant planets
An international team of EU-funded astronomers has just discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99% hydrogen and helium. With a temperature of just 400 degrees Celsius, its discovery could be crucial to helping astronomers distinguish between …