Furthermore, the number of students arriving at BME is also growing while BME students can now choose to study at 8 different prestigious European universities after the university joined the EELISA alliance. The degree programmes of BME open the door to many foreign universities for Hungarian students while BME’s foreign […]
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This year, four of a total of fifteen Pfizer Research Prizes have been awarded to physicians from the University of Bern and the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern. The award-winning work deals with leukemia, cardiac arrhythmias and the fever threshold in children and adolescents with cancer. The Pfizer Research Prize is […]
Diamonds can be used in electronics, optoelectronics, chemistry, environmental protection, medicine and research analytics. At Gdańsk University of Technology, under the supervision of prof. Robert Bogdanowicz, works the only team in Poland that conducts research on semiconductor diamonds and the possibilities of their use in the fight against COVID-19, in […]
Method plants seeds of peace and democracy among youth in divided Cyprus. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) researcher Dr. Derya Yüksek has developed a method to transform conflicts, by using participatory community media practices to unite young people of Cyprus, a still deeply divided island with a violent past. Dr. Derya […]
It is a poem synonymous with Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns. And today Auld Lang Syne has become an anthem sung around the world at New Year. But surprisingly the way we know it today is thanks to his second song editor, George Thomson, and not to the bard himself. […]
Brexit and Beyond, a new report from academic think tank UK in a Changing Europe, underlines the challenges and opportunities that confront the United Kingdom now it has left the European Union. The report brings together some of the country’s leading social scientists, who have written pieces addressing a swathe […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to a worsening of eating disorder symptoms, Bournemouth University (BU) research has found. The study, published in the Journal of Eating Disorders, examined which aspects of the pandemic have been especially difficult for people with eating disorders and any resulting change in their symptoms. Researchers […]
Middlesex University academics have urged parents to be more aware than ever of dangers online during the coronavirus pandemic after alarming figures were released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The university’s Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies (CATS) issued the warning after the IWF reported a 77% increase in the amount of self-generated […]
A Lancaster University professor’s new book tells a series of intriguing stories set against a variety of fascinating locations from England to Kurdistan. Professor Graham Mort’s ‘Like Fado and Other Stories’ comprises 13 stories, including a longer novella-style piece entitled ‘Whitethorn’. The stories are set in the north-west of England, […]
Thirteen academic institutions from eleven countries are working on the establishment of a permanent European Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies, named RESILIENCE. On 10 september 2020 the RESILIENCE partners submitted an application for the Research Infrastructure to be included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021. The inclusion of RESILIENCE in this […]
