Last December 18, 2006 the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (7FP) was approved and enforced by the European Parliament and the European Council. With reference to the petiton submitted by professor Piergiorgio Strata after the Rome World Congress (March 2006) and calling the European Parliament for the 7FP to fund research projects on embryonic stem

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Press release by the Luca Coscioni Association Toward the second reading of the European Parliament on the Seventh Framework Programme for Research, the German Liberal Party (belonging to the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, ELDR) has lately communicated its enforcement of the petition to the European Parliament launched by the Luca Coscioni Association and

U.S. Newswire published a press release mentioning Hon. Marco Cappato and his accepting on behalf of the Luca Coscioni Association the International Advocacy Award to be granted next June 10 by the Genetics Policy Institute at Stanford University (California): “WASHINGTON, May 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin will provide a keynote address

Commissioners Jan Figel and Janez Poto�?nik assure that both the future European Institute of Technology and the European Research Council will be scientifically free and independent from political influence. Background: Part of the relaunched Lisbon agenda, the European Institute of Technology (EIT) is set to be an important step towards filling the existing gap between

Brussels. Philippe Busquin, a Member of the European Parliament and Former European Commissioner for Research, has signed today a petition calling upon the EU Parliament to allocate EU funds for research on embryonic stem cells for the period 2007-2013 covered by the 7th Framework Programme for Research (7FP) of the European Union. The petition submitted

Nobel Prize-winners, scientists and European politicians support freedom of scientific research in Europe. Brussels. While the European Parliament is discussing the 7th Research Framework Programme, the World Congress for Freedom of Scientific Research (www.freedomofresearch.org) and the Luca Coscioni Association have launched a petition calling on the European Parliament to ensure that the Seventh Framework Programme

A handful of nations seek a ban even in countries where the research is legal [The Scientist] Germany, Austria and other nations opposed to EU funding of human embryonic stem cell research proposed an EU funding ban this month in Brussels at a meeting of the EU’s 25 national science ministers, raising concerns that the

The European Dana Alliance for the Brain has published an article about the first meeting of the World Congress for Freedom of Research.

Rules Would Guide Research Efforts By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Concerned that the world’s patchwork of laws and ethics rules governing human embryonic stem cell research is sowing confusion and stymieing international collaborations, scientists, ethicists and others have mounted a major effort to devise a set of universal principles that would guide the