Purpose – In January 2002, the National Science Council of Taiwan launched a National Digital Archives Program (NDAP) and has proceeded with the implementation of a system related to the open archives initiative (OAI) framework. This paper aims to introduce the protocol and the prototype system of the project. Design/methodology/approach – A general review of the project. Findings – The OAI int...

Firstly, the reader is introduced to the Swiss political system, which can be described as a federalist state with direct democracy. Secondly, the Swiss evoting pilot projects will be presented, against the background of the political system. Switzerland runs three pilot projects in order to test the feasibility of evoting. In a third part the legal framework of e-voting in Switzerland is highl...

Preamble The member States of the Council of Europe, the other States and the European Community, signatories hereto, Bearing in mind the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948; Bearing in mind the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 4 November 1950; Bearing in mind the European Soc...

This paper builds on the collaborative work of media researchers and professionals as well as education decision makers and teachers that met in Graz, 57 December 2007, at the invitation of the Council of Europe. The purpose of the workshop was to determine the validity of media education and to verify that human rights could be an added value to such an education. Three main questions were deb...

There is an established consensus in clinical ethics around the position that genetic testing of children is morally justified only when there are important medical benefits to be obtained from the testing that cannot otherwise be obtained and that should not be delayed. (I’ll call this ‘the presumption to defer’.) This position is expressed by a growing number of official and professional bodi...

the eDQM (european Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Health Care, Council of europe) is a standard setting body involved in ensuring the quality of medicines, including vaccines for human and veterinary use. this is done through the elaboration and publication of the european Pharmacopoeia (Ph. eur.). In addition, the eDQM runs the Biological Standardisation Programme (BSP) which elabo...

This publication on Ageing has been prepared by the Working Group on Bioethics and Biotechnology of the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). CEC is the regional ecumenical organisation which links in fellowship some 125 Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Orthodox, Reformed, Old Catholic and Pentecostal churches, as well as several associated organisat...

Background. We developed a completely closed system based on gravity separation without centrifugation steps for separation of whole blood. With this new system we compared quality and stability of the processed blood components (PRC and plasma) with respect to classical preparation. Furthermore the cost-effectiveness of this hollow fibre system was evaluated. Study Design and Methods. Whole bl...

The present issue of European Spatial Research and Policy is the first of two numbers dedicated to ‘Planning systems facing heritage issues in Europe: from protection to management, in the plural interpretations of the values of the past’. The concept arose from a meeting held in June 2013 at the conference on ‘Changing Cities’ in Skiathos, Greece, where a group of planners decided to compare t...