Antonio Ruberti, current president of the EC council of research ministers,
unveiled a programme last week to fund the transfer of science and technology
to eastern Europe. The programme has one of the EC’s longest acronyms yet
– Copernicus, which stands for COoperation for Pan European Research Networks
for InterdisCiplinary University Science.
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