European Commission seeks clearer goals for space research

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European Union seeks support for top research council

support international research collaborations across Europe, were notorious for their abundance of red tape and complicated formalities. The current instalment, FP6, runs out in December 2006. For the successor, the European Commission has now presented a draft proposal containing some radical new thinking and promising 'significant simplification of its operations compared with its predecessor...

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Dengue Research Funded by the European Commission-Scientific Strategies of Three European Dengue Research Consortia

Dengue is a major international public health concern and one of the most important arthropod-borne diseases [1]. Approximately 2.5 billion people—40% of the world’s population, in over 100 countries—are at risk of dengue virus (DENV) infection [2]. In recent years the average annual incidence of dengue-related serious disease in many tropical counties has been rising dramatically, with the inf...

Correction: Dengue Research Funded by the European Commission-Scientific Strategies of Three European Dengue Research Consortia

In the Acknowledgments section, the affiliation of Xavier Rodó is listed incorrectly. The correct affiliation is: ICREA and Institut Català de Ciències del Clima. Copyright: ß 2014 The PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in an...