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European Commission Announces €780 Million Boost for Strategic ICT Research

The European Commission has announced one of the biggest calls ever for information and communications technology (ICT) research proposals under the EU's research framework programmes. The announcement was made at Europe's largest event for ICT research and innovation, ICT 2010-Digitally Driven.

Europe is the Global Leader in Nationwide Implementation of eHealth Solutions

"Europe is leading the rest of the world in advancing towards modern eHealth infrastructures and implementations" was the conclusion of Dr. Karl Stroetmann of empirica Consultants at an eHealth Strategies Symposium in Brussels. This is a field where Europe has achieved and even overachieved its Lisbon Strategy goals.

2012 to be the European Year for Active Ageing

The European Commission has proposed that 2012 be designated as the "European Year for Active Ageing". The initiative aims to help create better job opportunities and working conditions for the growing numbers of older people in Europe, help them take an active role in society and encourage healthy ageing.

EU Grid Project Unlocks Processing Power of 200,000 Desktop Computers for European Researchers

EU researchers will have sustainable and continuous access to the combined processing power of over 200,000 desktop computers in more than 30 European countries thanks to the European Commission funded European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) project.

European Collaborative Research to Develop Lab-on-Chip System for Cheap and Fast Cancer Diagnosis

Detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells in blood is a promising methodology to diagnose cancer dissemination or to follow up cancer patients during therapy.

ENCITE - A Peek Into the Future of Novel MR Imaging Reporter Probes

The consortium of the project "European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise" (ENCITE) has the ambitious mission to develop and test new MR and optical imaging methods and biomarkers to draw a more comprehensive picture of cell fate and the reaction of the immune system.

New OpenOffice.org Writer Extension Produces Braille

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven) released an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer that enables users to save documents as Braille or to send them directly to a Braille embosser. "odt2braille" is a freeware extension for OpenOffice.org, a office suite that is freely available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux/Unix and Solaris.

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European Commission Announces €780 Million Boost for Strategic ICT Research

Europe is the Global Leader in Nationwide Implementation of eHealth Solutions

2012 to be the European Year for Active Ageing

EU Grid Project Unlocks Processing Power of 200,000 Desktop Computers for European Researchers

European Collaborative Research to Develop Lab-on-Chip System for Cheap and Fast Cancer Diagnosis

ENCITE - A Peek Into the Future of Novel MR Imaging Reporter Probes

New OpenOffice.org Writer Extension Produces Braille

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