“Horizon 2020 – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation” will come into force on 1 January 2014, the European Commission has announced. Horizon 2020 – the name of which was selected by a vote in June this year – will replace the FP7 programme when it finishes at the end of 2013.
For more information, please visit the European Commission website.
The next EPS Council meeting will be held at CERN, on 30-31 March 2012. The event will be a return of sorts for the EPS – coming back to where the society was founded, 44 years earlier, by its first president, Gilberto Bernardini, the then Research Director of CERN.
The venue for the meeting will be the CERN Council Chamber, where the EPS Constitution was first signed, on the 26 September 1968, by eminent representatives from 20 different national societies, academies and groups; along with the initial sixty-two individual members...
