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CORDIS has published a brief report of the Irish FP7 launch event that took place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham recently.

The European Commission has formally announced that the first FP7 calls will be opened on December 22.

Recently, my blog has been infested with comment and trackback spam. The default mechanisms in Typo to block spam are not great, in my opinion – certainly not up to the quality of spam management available in Wordpress. One step I have taken is to enable Akismet filtering. I have not used [...]

Biotechnology Ireland has published an announcement from DCU that Bill Harris, the former DG of SFI, has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor.
The announcement is also available on the DCU news site:

Professor Bill Harris, former Director General of SFI and current Head of Science Foundation, Arizona, has been appointed Adjunct Professor at Dublin City University.

Around the time I started work, and in particular attending presentations by colleagues, many such presentations would start with a slide like “Webster’s dictionary defines X as ….”, where X is the topic of the talk.
One of the events at the DERI research day I mentioned previously was a panel discussion on the topic of [...]

Yesterday, I spent the day at the DERI research day. DERI, as you will recall, is the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, based in Galway.
There were a number of interesting speakers, including Professor Stefan Decker, the centre director, Professor Manfred Hauswirth the recently appointed vice-director, and a number of the DERI researchers.
One presentation that particularly stuck [...]

As many of you in the research community will know, the European Commission is currently putting the finishing touches to Framework Programme 7 (FP7). One of the new components of FP7 is called the ‘Ideas Programme’. This programme will be run and managed by a new agency called the European Research Council (ERC).
The [...]