European Union R&D funding Do's & Don'ts

Higher Education Internationalization in European Union

Background: Nowadays, the wordwide trend for becoming most competitive and the most dynamic knowledge based economy is the responsibility of universities. The European Union is moving in this direction for global competitiveness, the retrieval process and brain circulation and income generation. This study, aimed to evaluate the internationalization trend of higher education in Europe. Me...

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

the european :union: constitution

the eu, which has its roots in the early fifties, in a short time reached nearly all aims to which the founders had refereed. establishing the major institutions and promoting its member states to cooperate in economic, social, political and recently in military issues, the eu is going to attain the old aspiration of the europeans, i.e., a united states of europe. in this regard, the conclusion...

A Survey of Public Funding of Cancer Research in the European Union

I n 2002 cancer accounted for 16.7% of the total burden of disease in the European Union (EU), compared with 25.3% and 17.1% for mental health and cardiovascular diseases, respectively [1]. In the period relevant to this Policy Forum, cancer was the second largest cause of mortality in the EU, accounting for 27.08% of all deaths. With the ageing population and the continuing impact of tobacco-a...

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