How might European higher education contribute to the promotion and development of European citizenship? In this article, the author addresses this question through a critical discussion of the notions of ‘active citizenship’ and ‘civic competence’, which play a central role in current policy and research on the role of education in the development of European citizenship. The author argues tha...

The Network and Distributed Systems Group within the University of Franche-Comte’s computer research lab (LIFC) gained solid expertise on medical ediagnosis in the area of remote collaboration through continued research and findings. TeNeCi (Cooperative Teleneurology) is a European remote diagnosis project applied to neurology developed under the aegis of INTERREGIII. INTERREGIII is a European ...

The authors are researchers in the Institute for European Health Services Research, based at Leuven University, Belgium and located near to the headquarters of the European Economic Community. In this book they have set out to list, categorise and evaluate an extensive range of research projects (324 in all) being undertaken in Belgium, France, Federal German Republic and the Netherlands. Each ...

he water framework directive of the european union has become a milestone in the water policy for this area. this directive aims to achieve a “good ecological status” of bodies of water in the member states of the european union by 2015. the water framework directive calls for the application of economic principles, economic approaches, tools and instruments. the functions of this economic anal...

Editorial Note:The weekly medical journal of The Netherlands - the Nederlands Tijdschrift Door Geneeskunde - has for many years periodically sponsored expert meetings to consider medical topics of current importance. On June 15th 1990, the Journal held a conference on the situation created by the promised common market for pharmaceutical products which is to be created by the European Community...