Science Europe to strengthen collaboration among national research organizations
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state of Ohio is a growing hub of polymer activity. Companies and research institutions are engaged at all points along the supply chain in areas ranging from aerospace to flexible displays. The polymer industry in Ohio employs approximately 130,000 people at 2440 establishments. It has generated nearly $50 billion in economic activity
Science Europe to strengthen collaboration among national research organizations www.scienceeurope.org
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ast fall, Europe’s national research organizations announced the founding of Science Europe, an organization that brings together 50 organizations from across Europe. Based in Brussels, Science Europe will promote the collective interests of its member organizations, and streamline the coordination of policies and activities. Its creation will accelerate progress on implementing the actions set out in the road map for the realization of the European Research Area developed by the European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCs) and the European Science Foundation
in 2009. Its location in Brussels will enable Science Europe to work in effective partnership with the European Commission and other European organizations with similar aims. In addition to coordinating policy work among its members, in 2012, Science Europe will establish six scientific committees that will be made up of leading European researchers to ensure a direct voice for the scientific community in the organization’s strategic outlook, policies, and priorities. As Science Europe’s first president, Assembly-elected Paul Boyle of the
German Research Foundation to fund three DNP-NMR devices for materials science www.dfg.de/en
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ith support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) three German universities are to obtain innovative dynamic nuclear polarization-nuclear magnetic resonance (DNP-NMR) equipment for use in materials science and the life sciences. As part of an ongoing major instrumentation initiative, a sum of almost €5 million is available to provide this technology at the Universities of Darmstadt, Düsseldorf, and Frankfurt. The key feature of DNP-NMR tech-
nology is the combination of solidstate NMR spectroscopy with intensive high-frequency irradiation of the samples during the measurement. This technique increases the sensitivity of the NMR measurement by approximately two orders of magnitude and so allows completely new categories of samples to be investigated, according to the DFG. In contrast to other approaches to more sensitive NMR measurements, the new method now being funded enables continuous DNP amplification for the first time, and thereby affords wider appli-
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and more than $1.3 billion in exports annually in recent years. For more information on Ohio’s investments in the polymer community, visit www. PolymerOhio.org. Kendra Redmond
Research Councils UK said, “Science Europe will provide a strong single voice for research funding and performing organizations in Europe;
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