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New name for the future EU funding programme for research and innovation
29/06/2011
"Horizon 2020" is the winner of the "You name it" online vote to name the future EU funding programme for research and innovation, EU research commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced.
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Space Scoop: Astronomy News for Children
27/06/2011
European Southern Observatory (ESO) has teamed up with the EUNAWE project to produce ‘children-friendly' versions of its latest Science and Photo Releases, releases written specifically for children aged between 7 and 11.
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Communicating science in preschool
24/06/2011
When preschool children ask questions about science they often do not get a clear answer from their teachers and miss the scientific content, a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows.
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SE@M 2011 Call for papers
22/06/2011
The fifth international workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials (SE@M 2011), to be held in Palermo, Italy, in September 2011, invites authors to submit their research papers. The deadline is 30 June 2011.
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PISA in Focus: has discipline in school deteriorated?
20/06/2011
The fourth edition of PISA in Focus examines the relationship between classroom discipline and the performance of the 15-year-olds who took the 2009 PISA test.
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The EPS-HEPP Division Outreach Prize awarded to Christine Kourkoumelis and Sofoklis Sotiriou
16/06/2011
This year's Outreach Prize of the European Physical Society (EPS), High Energy and Particle Physics Division (HEPP), has been awarded jointly to Christine Kourkoumelis and Sofoklis Sotiriou.
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EuroStemCell: new educational resources for teachers and students
14/06/2011
The FP7 project EuroStemCell has produced a new stem cell toolkit, a set of downloadable resources and activities suitable for a variety of educational settings.
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How to evaluate a school
10/06/2011
Constant new requirements regarding assessments, surveys and quality assurance don't necessarily make for better schools, suggests a researcher at BI Norwegian Business School.
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A new site on nanotechnology
08/06/2011
The British newspaper, The Guardian, in association with the Nanochannels project, has launched a new microsite "Nanotechnology world" to provide information and latest news about nanotechnologies and their applications.
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Scientix Conference: summary and main recommendations
06/06/2011
The summary of the Scientix European Conference held in Brussels on 6-8 May 2011 has just been published. It recapitulates the conference presentations and talks and highlights the main topics discussed.
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