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At the request of the UK Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, a new report by Baroness Greenfield CBE was published 28 November 2002 tackling the gender gap in science, engineering and technology. The report gives a number of recommendations to improve the recruitment and retention of female engineers and scientists.

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The scientific community and members of the public interested in the science of Genetic Modification (GM) are being invited to take part in a full and open independent scientific review to examine the extent of current scientific knowledge behind GM, with particular focus on crops.

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Two reports from the BioTIK-secretariat, "Ethical Principles in European Regulation of Biotechnology", and: "Gene Technology and Ethics in the Plant and Foods Area", have now been published on this site's library.

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A new pilot scheme to help mothers wishing to return to science engineering and technology (SET) jobs was announced on 13 September 2002 by the Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt.

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Nicola Crowden (research assistant for the Centre for policy Research on Science and Technology Vancouver) is doing a research on Gender Sensitivity of Innovation and Cluster Research Instruments. The results will be published on this website soon.The objective of this research proposal is to investigate whether interview-based research tools used in projects researching the new economy have an underlying gender bias. Read more about the research proposal.

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SciDev.Net is pleased to announce a new section of its website which contains news and opinion articles, as well as a discussion forum, on the topic of 'Science & Sustainability'

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The EFB Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology maintains a database containing descriptions and contact information of some 250 key biotechnology organisations in Europe.

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http://biosafety.abc.hu/CEE is a clear, and well-organised website providing detailed information on national biosafety frameworks and activities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The purpose of the CEE Biosafety web site is to provide information about biosafety frameworks and biosafety activities in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

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Public Debate: conclusions and recommendations to the Government The Dutch public has reservations about the application of biotechnology in food production. That was the conclusion of a recent public debate on food and genetics. The large majority did however feel that the application of gene technology in food production could be allowed under stringent conditions. These were the conclusions of the Commission on Biotechnology and Food, chaired by Jan Terlouw, former Minister of Economic Affairs. On 9 January 2002 the Commission presented its final report and conclusions to the Minister of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries, Laurens Jan Brinkhorst.

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The website of the European Federation of Biotechnology Task Group on Public Perceptions of Biotechnology has gone online for a select testing group for the period of two weeks. The website is planned to become available to the larger web community in early february.

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New website on " Biotechnology and Health, food & life". Site moderator Chantal Gill'ard is looking for publications, news items, events and people to discuss with on areas relating to above mentioned topics. Engaging experts in the biotech field with other members in the public society worldwide. Building bridges, focussing on food, life and health topics from an ethical, technical and political view, the latter is in relation to social development . Equality among women and men in all EFB Task Group on Public Perceptions activities plays a keyrole of the Health, food & life project.

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In order to launch the "Ask the Scientist" project on this website, the Task Group on Public Perceptions has started looking for experts to work with them to answer all biotechnology related questions from the public

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• Published: 20-May-2004

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