This message is addressed to CogPrints users and concerns the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) http://www.soros.org/openaccess launched on 14 February by George Soros's Open Society Institute. To be useful, research must be used. To be used (read, cited, applied, extended) it must be accessible. There are currently 20,000 peer-reviewed journals of scientific and scholarly research worldwide, publishing over 2 million articles per year, every

Marie Curie fellowships are one means by which the Commission will ensure mobility between the current EU candidate countries and Member States in the Sixth Framework programme (FP6) , Georges Bingen, Head of unit for the Commission's Marie Curie fellowships unit, said on 7 March. Speaking at the 'European enlargement: new opportunities for research funding' event, organised by the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of education and

Today, March 7th, 2002, at the conference on "European enlargement: new opportunities for research funding" in Bonn, Germany, Dr. Achilleas Mitsos, Director General for Research within the European Commission announced that the European Commission decided to fully integrate all candidate countries for European enlargement into the Research Area allowing them to fully participate in the 6th Framework Programme beginning with January 1, 2003. The conference

Fit for Europe by KoWi will provide a conference on-demand service of the meeting "European enlargement: new opportunities for research funding" Exchange of experiences between scientists Thursday, 7 March 2002, Science Centre Bonn, Germany The conference is organised by the Representation of the European Commission in Bonn in co-operation with the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, the European Liaison Office of the German Research Organisations

Premierul Adrian Nastase i-a anuntat pe studentii romani din Olanda ca Guvernul de la Bucuresti intentioneaza sa creeze o structura de tip "head hunting", pentru a recruta viitorii inalti functionari dintre tinerii aflati la burse in strainatate. Acest lucru inseamna ca, intr-o prima faza, se va constitui o baza de date in care vor fi inclusi toti cei care pleaca cu sprijinul statului la unitati de invatamant din tari straine. Pasul al doilea consta