“Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken has installed LED panels replicating daylight on a dark staircase in Stockholm. Called Daylight Entrance, the walls of the staircase are lined with solid surface material. Recesses were milled out from behind the material to accommodate panels of LED lights.” See more photos here.
Filed under: Performance, Europe, Hatchback, Peugeot
As Europe’s second largest automaker, it’s no great secret that France’s PSA has got the Volkswagen Group squarely in its sights. As if the on-track rivalry between Peugeot and Audi in Le Mans racing weren’t enough, the Lion brand recently launched its offensive against the likes of the Vokswagen Scirocco and Audi TT in the form of the RCZ coupe. Now the French are taking another shot, this time against the Volkswagen GTI with… their own GTi.
Not only is the name the same (save the discrepancy of the lower-case I), but the specs follow a similar formula as well: The VW packs a 2.0-liter turbocharged four with 200 horsepower. The Peugeot? A 1.6-liter turbocharged (and direct-injected) four with – you guessed it – 200 horsepower. Even torque is also on a (relatively) level playing field, with the Volks offering 207 lb-ft and the Pug 202. The heavier Peugeot, however, takes 7.7 seconds to get up to highway speed, compared to the seven seconds flat it takes the Volkswagen.
The engine in the 308 GTi – co-developed with BMW – is the same that debuted on the RCZ, this time powering a five-door hatch and mated to a six-speed manual. There are other suspension, aerodynamic and trim upgrades to differentiate the 308 GTi from its bread-and-butter stablemates, more of which you can read about in the press release after the jump and view in the gallery below. The ultimate question is, after listening to its customers and doing an about-face on its plans to get out of the hot hatch game altogether, does the Peugeot deserve the GTi badge? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
Gallery: Peugeot 308 GTi
[Source: Peugeot]
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People really have an incredible ability to assume that only they could possibly have a very common idea. Lots of people have pointed out that James Cameron’s Avatar seems similar to all sorts of stories. In fact, the site io9 put together a giant list of books and movies that some claimed were copied by Cameron. And, of course, we’ve already mentioned two separate lawsuits. Well, now we can add Permalink | Comments | Email This Story
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[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Thursday passed the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010 [S 3217 materials], focused on increasing regulation in the financial sector following the recent economic crisis [JURIST news archive]. The bill creates a new regulatory council to monitor financial institutions in order to prevent the companies from becoming “too big to fail.” It also gives the Federal Reserve [official website] the power to supervise the largest financial companies and report to the government any risks the firms may pose to the economy at large. Additionally, a new consumer protection division will be established within the Federal Reserve to enforce rules against certain business practices like abusive mortgage lending and some credit card practices. As a final protection against future bailouts, the government will have the ability to seize and liquidate failing financial institutions before their collapse can have an adverse affect on the entire economy. US President Barack Obama [official website] praised the reform [press release], stating, “[o]ur goal is not to punish the banks, but to protect the larger economy and the American people from the kind of upheavals that we’ve seen in the past few years. And today’s action was a major step forward in achieving that goal.” Opponents of the bill, however, expressed concern that its passage will stifle the economy. Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) [official website] stated [press release], “[i]n its current form, the bill will do considerable damage to our competitiveness as a nation, not to mention harming job growth and our economic recovery.” The Senate bill has to be reconciled with the bill passed last December [JURIST report] by the US House of Representatives [official website] before Obama can sign it into law.
Thursday’s passage of the bill marks the end to a long struggle in the Senate over financial reform. The Senate Banking Committee [official website] proposed a bill [text, PDF; JURIST report] in 2009 that was met with resistance and resulted in the committee’s development of the current bill. One provision in the bill that has been the source of much debate is the creation of a consumer protection agency. The US House Financial Services Committee [official website] had approved a bill to create the agency in October, after originally delaying [JURIST reports] it at the behest of financial industry leaders in July. The creation of the agency is a key step in achieving the Obama administration’s stated goal of tightening financial industry regulations. Last June, the administration proposed a broad series of regulatory reforms [press release; JURIST report] aimed at restoring confidence in the US financial system.
Harnessing energy out of green sustainable sources is getting better and more efficient day-by-day. It’s now wave energy generation that will receive a push up, with Aquamarine Power’s Oyster 2. This wave harnessing machine converts hydraulic power to electricity. To be built in Scotland, the 800-kilowatt model will produce 250% more energy than previous models. Just like its predecessor, the Oyster, the Oyster 2 does not use underwater turbines or buoys for energy generation.
It uses pistons set into motion by ocean waves that create water pressure and pumps the pressurized water in an underwater pipeline to the shore, which is then used to juice up a hydroelectric generator. Off the coast of mainland Scotland, three Oyster 2 machines have already been installed. These will be connected to an onshore 2.4-megawatt hydroelectric turbine. 20 machines will be set up in the future by Aquamarine Power, which will help lighten up 12,000 homes, using waves.
[Cnet]
Fuel efficiency of a car could never get better than this. The car by Team Polyjule Polytech Nantes from France broke quite a few records with its astounding fuel efficiency, 4,414km on a single liter of fuel. The 2010 Shell Eco-marathon saw this incredible feat being achieved by the Prototype car that broke the “3,836 kilometers on a single liter of fuel” record set by ETH Zurich of Switzerland.
Racing day kicked off a day earlier at the Shell Eco-marathon event. The car also faced a bit of trouble, breaking down on the fifth trial run, though still managing to break the record. The Polyjule Team is made up of students from Polytechnique de Nantes, a third-level engineering school, and Lycée La Joliverie, a second-level institution, who aimed for perfection to chisel out this awesome fuel efficient vehicle. Hopefully, our day-to-day cars of the future drink this less.
[Shell]
As a BlackBerry user, I’m not sure how I feel about 1,500 UK binmen being given BlackBerrys for work. I don’t want to be elitist, but if a binman wolf-whistles me and asks if I’m on BBM, I’d die. More »
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Police cars are have gone from SUVs to Sedans to Hatchbacks. And now, to shrink them up a bit further, they turn into little four-wheeled contraptions, that somewhat look a lot like an infants pram. You top a pram with flashing lights, pedal power, five gears, a siren, full Hampshire Constabulary livery and a roll bar to protect the driver and you have a little “patrol car”, with a top-speed of 20mph, unlikely to catch up with a getaway car that easily. Anyways, this isn’t a serious step taken by the Police, it’s just a community project organized by local bobby Keith Waller, and it won’t be doing any chasing.
The car took 40 hours to build with help from children aged 13 to 16 from the Ringwood Comprehensive School. This explains the size factor. The tiny 6-foot long “patrol car” will take part in the British Pedal Car Grand Prix on July 11. The lovable Mr. Plod from Noddy’s Toy-Town is sure to love this cop car.
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Most biotech firms toil as obscure private companies for years to prove their ideas work in the clinic. They have to hustle non-stop for venture capital to keep the doors open just long enough to someday cash out with an IPO.
Steven Quay is betting he’s found a shortcut.
Quay, the veteran Seattle biotech CEO, is trying to cut straight to the IPO chase with his new gig. He’s the CEO and founder of Seattle-based Atossa Genetics, with his own patented invention and his own seed capital, which he’s now hoping to parlay into a $15 million initial public offering. If Quay can raise that money, Atossa will be able to start selling an FDA-approved diagnostic test which could be used along with mammograms to predict a woman’s future risk of getting breast cancer.
Atossa described its unusual origins in a March 30 investor prospectus that I, and pretty much everybody else in the media that I can see, missed. But Atossa’s IPO paperwork is clear that it is seeking to sell 5 million shares at $3 each. The filing doesn’t list any underwriters, although Quay says he is in discussions with several. It has a law firm (Cassidy & Associates of Newport Beach, CA) that I haven’t heard of, and an accounting firm, KCCW Accountancy, that also doesn’t ring any bells. Atossa plans to trade as an over-the-counter stock, which I must say isn’t the place most people look to find the next Genentech.
That said, Quay is a well-known character in the Seattle biotech scene and on the NASDAQ circuit. He was previously the CEO of Bothell, WA-based Sonus Pharmaceuticals in the 1990s, and was CEO of Bothell, WA-based Nastech Pharmaceutical (now MDRNA) for most of the last decade. Both of those companies made a lot of shareholders unhappy. Sonus flamed out under Quay’s successor a couple years ago, and was later absorbed by OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OGXI). MDRNA is still alive, but has limited cash reserves, and a market capitalization of less than $50 million. Quay left that company in the fall of 2008 with a severance package worth $1.7 million.
Steven Quay
The roots of Atossa Genetics go back to the late ’90s, during an interim stint Quay had between Sonus and Nastech. In 2000, Quay invented a technology which he says can be used to screen millions of women early for their future breast cancer risk, potentially saving lives, like the Pap Smear test has done for cervical cancer. Pap smears have helped bring the annual death rate from cervical cancer down by 90 percent over the past 50 years, and the same potential exists for early breast cancer screening today, Quay says. About 192,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and about 40,000 die from it annually, according to the American Cancer Society.
“While we have this conversation, women are dying every minute from breast cancer,” Quay says.
The technology has had quite a few commercial twists and turns. Atossa’s test is designed to analyze nipple aspirate fluid, a sample of fluid from the milk ducts in the breast that’s filled with cells and molecular markers that are thought to be early signs of cancer. The technology was obtained by Nastech when Quay became CEO of the company in 2000. But it didn’t really go very far there. While at Nastech, Quay championed a strategy of creating nasal-spray delivery formulations of drugs which received support at various times from partners like Procter & Gamble, Novo Nordisk, and Merck. Those partnerships eventually dried up, and Nastech reinvented itself as a developer of RNA interference technology, and renamed itself MDRNA.
While most investors weren’t watching, the breast cancer diagnostic won FDA approval in 2003. The commercial rights were later held by Cytyc and Hologic, who did some patent and development work, but handed the product back under license terms to MDRNA in 2008, Quay says. While it’s been cleared for sale by the FDA for seven years, the test hasn’t yet been marketed.
Why didn’t those other companies commercialize the technology? One potential reason …Next Page »
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A plant in Fremont, Calif., that was closed last year because it was too inefficient will now be used by partners, Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Motors Inc., to make electric vehicles. The New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. facility will be acquired by Tesla and will be manned by 1,000 workers.
The two companies made the announcement in Palo Alto, Calif. Toyota President Akio Toyoda said that Tesla’s entrepreneurial spirit is admirable — a quality that he hopes all Toyota employees will take on, considering that Toyota began as a venture business decades ago. Continued after the jump!
He also said that he anticipates that Toyota will learn quick decision-making and flexibility from the venture. To prepare NUMMI, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company will spend “a couple of hundred million dollars.”
Earlier this year, NUMMI (a former joint venture between Toyota and General Motors) shut down amid heavy criticism from the UAW work force. Musk revealed that the negotiations to obtain the plant had concluded earlier this week.
The facility will produce about 20,000 units a year for the Model S, Tesla’s next model that will debut in 2012.
But Musk said that the other models that will follow will be based on the Model S platform. Toyota will invest $50 million in Tesla in exchange for the electric carmaker’s common stock when it completes its planned initial public offering.
Source: Car news, Car reviews, Spy shots
Ever dreamt of riding a dolphin, riding up and down the waves of the deep blue ocean? Well, now there’s a greener way to do that, without troubling dolphins. Part the waters for the Green Samba, a Personal Water Craft V 3.0 powered by electricity. This is the fastest sit-down PWC of its kind. The Green Samba’s handling and agility is far better than the usual standup-up PWC.
With a 65mph straight line performance and 260bhp, the Green Samba uses twin direct drive electric propulsion pods, keeping the hydrocarbons, CO2 and NO2 at bay. Besides being clean and green, this Samba is also noiseless, which keeps the marine life undisturbed. The Green Samba is sure to catch the attention of those who love riding waves and the Special Forces, who forever have been looking for silent crafts like these.
[Gizmag]
TomDispatch has a new article from Michael Klare, looking at the problems associated with chasing ever-harder-to-extract oil – The Oil Rush to Hell.
Yes, the oil spewing up from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in staggering quantities could prove one of the great ecological disasters of human history. Think of it, though, as just the prelude to the Age of Tough Oil, a time of ever increasing reliance on problematic, hard-to-reach energy sources. Make no mistake: we’re entering the danger zone. And brace yourself, the fate of the planet could be at stake.
It may never be possible to pin down the precise cause of the massive explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20th, killing 11 of its 126 workers. Possible culprits include a faulty cement plug in the undersea oil bore and a disabled cutoff device known as a blow-out preventer. Inadequate governmental oversight of safety procedures undoubtedly also contributed to the disaster, which may have been set off by a combination of defective equipment and human error. But whether or not the immediate trigger of the explosion is ever fully determined, there can be no mistaking the underlying cause: a government-backed corporate drive to exploit oil and natural gas reserves in extreme environments under increasingly hazardous operating conditions.
The New Oil Rush and Its Dangers
The United States entered the hydrocarbon era with one of the world’s largest pools of oil and natural gas. The exploitation of these valuable and versatile commodities has long contributed to the nation’s wealth and power, as well as to the profitability of giant energy firms like BP and Exxon. In the process, however, most of our easily accessible onshore oil and gas reservoirs have been depleted, leaving only less accessible reserves in offshore areas, Alaska, and the melting Arctic. To ensure a continued supply of hydrocarbons — and the continued prosperity of the giant energy companies — successive administrations have promoted the exploitation of these extreme energy options with a striking disregard for the resulting dangers. By their very nature, such efforts involve an ever increasing risk of human and environmental catastrophe — something that has been far too little acknowledged.
The hunt for oil and gas has always entailed a certain amount of risk. After all, most energy reserves are trapped deep below the Earth’s surface by overlying rock formations. When punctured by oil drills, these are likely to erupt in an explosive release of hydrocarbons, the well-known “gusher” effect. In the swashbuckling early days of the oil industry, this phenomenon — familiar to us from movies like There Will Be Blood — often caused human and environmental injury. Over the years, however, the oil companies became far more adept at anticipating such events and preventing harm to workers or the surrounding countryside.
Now, in the rush to develop hard-to-reach reserves in Alaska, the Arctic, and deep-offshore waters, we’re returning to a particularly dangerous version of those swashbuckling days. As energy companies encounter fresh and unexpected hazards, their existing technologies — largely developed in more benign environments — often prove incapable of responding adequately to the new challenges. And when disasters occur, as is increasingly likely, the resulting environmental damage is sure to prove exponentially more devastating than anything experienced in the industrial annals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Deepwater Horizon operation was characteristic of this trend. BP, the company which leased the rig and was overseeing the drilling effort, has for some years been in a rush to extract oil from ever greater depths in the Gulf of Mexico. The well in question, known as Mississippi Canyon 252, was located in 5,000 feet of water, some 50 miles south of the Louisiana coastline; the well bore itself extended another 13,000 feet into the earth. At depths this great, all work on the ocean floor has to be performed by remotely-controlled robotic devices overseen by technicians on the rig. There was little margin for error to begin with, and no tolerance for the corner-cutting, penny-pinching, and lax oversight that appears to have characterized the Deepwater Horizon operation. Once predictable problems did arise, it was, of course, impossible to send human troubleshooters one mile beneath the ocean’s surface to assess the situation and devise a solution.
Drilling in Alaska and the Arctic poses, if anything, even more perilous challenges, given the extreme environmental and climatic conditions to be dealt with. Any drilling rigs deployed offshore in, say, Alaska’s Beaufort or Chukchi Seas must be hardened to withstand collisions with floating sea ice, a perennial danger, and capable of withstanding extreme temperatures and powerful storms. In addition, in such hard-to-reach locations, BP-style oil spills, whether at sea or on land, will be even more difficult to deal with than in the Gulf. In any such situation, an uncontrolled oil flow is likely to prove lethal to many species, endangered or otherwise, which have little tolerance for environmental hazards.
Filed under: Advice, Health, Fitness, Fit Family Guy
In the spirit of “show, don’t tell,” I’m going to show you an example of how I’m stupid.
In my next article I’ll provide some more scientific details about injury rehabilitation, but for today I want to discuss how I’m a spaz and how I overcame the consequences of being a spaz, just in case you can take any motivation from that.
If you’re a regular reader of my column, then perhaps you’ve taken note of my occasional moaning about my low back. This is the story of how my stupidity caused it, and my quest for the cure (of the low back pain, not the stupidity).
Part One – 1983 – The Competitive Moron
Grade 10 gym class had a weightlifting portion, and I sucked.
Not just at weightlifting, but everything to do with gym class. My larger, hairier, more popular and more jock-ular classmates could all lift far more than I. My bench press was pathetic, and my squat only slightly better. There was one lift that I had some nominal competitive ability at, and that was the deadlift.
In an effort to show off, without really knowing the proper technique, I tried to lift as much as I could and wrenched the crap out of my low back. It bothered me off and on for the next twenty years…
…until it really blew up.
Continue reading Healing a Back Injury With Exercise: A Personal Tale of Woe
World’s leading software maker, Microsoft, just announced that it’s offering Office Mobile 2010 suite as a free download. The latest package would be available from its Windows Phone Marketplace for Windows Mobile 6.5 users who have a previous version of Office Mobile installed.The latest addition from Microsoft, the Office Mobile 2010 includes new versions of Word, Excel, OneNote, SharePoint Workspace and PowerPoint.
Starting today, the Office Mobile 2010 Suite would be available for free in the Windows Marketplace. The mobile version will allow users to edit, browse and update documents stored on the phone or attached to an email.
Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President Microsoft Business Division, told:
“Office Mobile 2010 is the new level of connectivity.”
Presentations are made easy with the availability of the new office suite. Just connect a phone with Power Point Mobile 2010 installed on your phone and connect to a second screen via Bluetooth to view or deliver it.
Along with the updated versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel, Microsoft has upgraded the Internet versions too labeled Office Web. All Office Web Apps are available free of charge to consumers and Corporate Software Subscribers. Office 2010’s offers:
Upgrades are on the move as Microsoft gears up on expanding its Web-based computing to coupe along Google’s online Google Apps suite which is gaining confidence amongst business software market
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For the last 10 years Peugeot only focused on delivering nice looking cars that will do well for your daily commuting. Well folks it looks like they’re getting back to it, as we’re just hearing that the French manufacturer just took the wraps off of the new Peugeot 308 GTi. The new model runs on the same engine as the RCZ Coupe, the 1.6 liter THP (turbocharged direct-injection) mated to a 6-speed manual gearbox. Which helps the new Peugeot 308 GTi sprints from 0 to 100km/h in 7.7 seconds.
On the outside there aren’t many changes, at least not ones that we could find easily. There are 18-inch wheels, a rear spoiler, a lowered rear bumper with a stylishdiffuser, dual chrome exhaust pipes and a carbon-style insert beneath the front bumper.
Like it? The 2010 Peugeot 308 GTi should launch on June 10 in France with a base price of €26,900. [via DeviceMAG]
There’s been talks about the next Opel Calibra debuting for for several years now and now Opel and Vauxhall may have decided to get this mid-size coupe on the market as early as 2013.
The new Opel Calibra will take its basic design from the GTC Concept, but this four-seater coupe will probably be just a two-door version of the Opel Insignia (sold in the U.S. as the 2011 Buick Regal).
In order to turn over a profit, Opel and its Vauxhall partner will have to build about 30,000 units a year, but according to an unnamed GM Europe source said : “We would feel a lot more confident about some of these projects if Buick, Chevrolet in North and South America and Saab (Saab is no longer part a part of GM) were sharing volumes and risk.”
Source | carmagazine.co.uk
Filed under: Morning Scoop
Each morning, we dish out a few links we love.
Growing old isn’t all bad news — here’s an upside to those ever-increasing wrinkles.
Here’s a trend that guys will dig — “Dude Food” is type of cuisine meant to please the most manly of tastes. I’m guessing it’s not exactly healthy, though.
Been burned by an ex? Get your revenge by give them crabs — through the mail, of course.
Is it possible for a marathoner to consumer 8,000 calories a day and still be vegan? You bet — here’s how Scott Jurek does it.
Fibre is an essential part of your diet — here are some easy ways to add some to yours without feeling like you’re eating cardboard and grass.
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
BBC Radio 4’s excellent In Our Time had a discussion on William James’ landmark book ‘The Varieties of Religious Experience’
The Neurocritic examines a curious study on the cognitive science of gaydar.
The brilliant behavioural economist Dan Ariely writes for Wired UK on habits and behavioural inertia in consumer decision-making.
Neuroskeptic has an insightful post that gets beyond the dopamine = ‘instant reward liquid’ stereotype that plagues popular neuroscience.
ABC Radio National’s All in the Mind recently had an excellent edition on HIV, dementia and the brain.
The BPS Research Digest comes out as a born-again introspector. Can I get an amen? You tell me brother.
The late great Richard Gregory gets a fitting send off with an obituary in The Times. A chap with a remarkably varied life.
Addiction Inbox has another one of its consistently excellent posts, this time on Al Hubbard “a former intelligence agent, rogue businessman, and general intellectual gadfly” who was one of the initiators of LSD therapy.
There is a jaw dropping and worrying report on BBC News about the growing epidemic of opium addiction in Afghanistan, with audio slideshow.
The Seminal blog seems to catch the American Psychological Association deleting and editing web pages that linked it to CIA torture workshops. Repression? Surely not.
Fashion students must compete with psychology students for retail jobs, reports New York Magazine bleakly. Sounds shit but it’ll probably be a reality show on cable some time soon.
BoingBoing has a visual study guide to cognitive biases.
Toddlers who lie ‘will do better’ demands BBC News. Or, at least, I think that’s what they’re doing. It could be something about early development of theory of mind.
Advances in the History of Psychology has found some archive films from the seminal development psychologist Kurt Lewin.
Caregivers for people with dementia more likely to also get the disease, reports Wired Science. Mechanism unknown.
New Scientist reports on an intriguing but somewhat overenthusiastic research report suggesting that ball lightning may be a hallucination.
The New York Times starts a philosophy section. Shit already hitting the conceptual fan.
Forensic psychology blog In the News covers an interesting angle on the story of anti-gay expert George Rekers being caught with a rent boy – he’s been an expert witness in countless court cases on homosexuality and the revelation may affect the weight of his expert testimony in past cases.
CBS News reports on a study finding that unattractive defendants 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones and also get sentenced to an average of 22 months longer in prison.
The four stages of fear present themselves during an attack by a mountain lion! A great piece for Discover Magazine forms part of the brain special issue of the magazine.
Psicología Latina is a new journal in English and Spanish on on the history of psychology in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
There’s an icky but interesting account of treating President Lincoln’s fatal head wound over at Galen Press.
Insider reports have revealed that the top American Spy Chief, Dennis Blair has resigned over intelligence failures which led to Christmas Day Attack and the foiled Time Square Bombing. Director U.S. National Intelligence also confirmed that he will step down any moment. He was guilty within himself and was saddened that the intelligence agencies failed under his regime.
It is also heard that President Barack Obama has lost faith in the man he selected for the top spy agency. He had appointed the retired navy man to overhaul the intelligence network and correct the working of CIA. The President had also asked him to grill the CIA’s torture cell as various media reported of strong torture amongst prisoners.
Mr. Blair was appointed as the Director of National Intelligence, being the third to take the position. The agency was to lead sixteen other spy agencies, monitor them, and guide them to correct working.
Being questioned and criticized a lot by various media and politicians, he took the decision and in a surprise statement last night, he announced with deep regret that he was quitting. It is also told that Mr. Blair met the President at the White House and conveyed his message of quitting, whereas Mr. Obama has accepted his resignation.
An official also revealed:
“We have been interviewing several strong candidates to be his replacement.”
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The JRC and the Lithuanian Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology organised two information events in for Lithuanian scientists in Vilnius on 18-19 May. Such conferences are regularly organised in countries throughout Europe.
On 18 May, a seminar for young researchers aimed at raising awareness about JRC activities and career opportunities among young Lithuanian researchers. The audience of 60 Lithuanian PhD students had the opportunity to get an insight into JRC activities in support to EU policy making as well as to discuss opportunities for collaboration with the JRC. They also had the possibility to participate in a comprehensive workshop on job opportunities at the JRC where the new multi annual recruitment plan of the JRC was presented.
