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Saxony: Landscapes/Rivers and Lakes/Climate
Freistaat Sachsen State Chancellery Message and Greeting ................................................................................................................................................. 2 State and People Delightful Saxony: Landscapes/Rivers and Lakes/Climate ......................................................................................... 5 The Saxons – A people unto themselves: Spatial distribution/Population structure/Religion .......................... 7 The Sorbs – Much more than folklore ............................................................................................................ 11 Then and Now Saxony makes history: From early days to the modern era ..................................................................................... 13 Tabular Overview ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 Constitution and Legislature Saxony in fine constitutional shape: Saxony as Free State/Constitution/Coat of arms/Flag/Anthem ....................... 21 Saxony’s strong forces: State assembly/Political parties/Associations/Civic commitment ..................................... 23 Administrations and Politics Saxony’s lean administration: Prime minister, ministries/State administration/ State budget/Local government/E-government/Simplification of the law ............................................................................... 29 Saxony in Europe and in the world: Federalism/Europe/International -
Baltic Rim Economies Quarterly Review
Baltic Rim Economies Quarterly Review ISSUE NO. 6, 19 DECEMBER 2012 EXPERT ARTICLES: Mikhail V. Myasnikovich: Belarus – joining Europe and Eurasia together (integration of Integrations concept) Page 1 Pekka Salminen and Hannamaria Yliruusi: Direct investments in city-to-city cooperation between Belarus and EU Page 2 Artis Pabriks: Security issues in the Baltic Sea region Page 3 Petri Sarvamaa: Rail Baltica as a stimulant to Baltic economies Page 4 Jessica Polfjärd: Nordic competitiveness in trade and commerce – a strong and secure future established by growth Page 5 Franz Thönnes: The Baltic Sea Labour Forum (BSLF) is working Page 6 Ann-Kristine Johansson: A cleaner Baltic Sea – a task for parliamentarians across borders Page 7 Hannu Himanen: The reluctant partner – Russia in WTO Page 8 Maimo Henriksson: The dynamic corner of Europe – the High North as a strategic survival strategy for Finland Page 9 Riho Terras: Security and defense in the Baltic Sea region – what to expect? Page 10 Stephen Blank: European and Asian rivalries over the Arctic Page 11 Timo Rautajoki: The great future of Murmansk is still based on visions Page 12 Anneli Ahonen: Times are changing for the Northern Russian town of Pechenga Page 13 Martti Hahl: The bridge over troubled waters of North West Russia Page 14 Philip Lowe: Baltic energy infrastructure – from isolation towards integration Page 15 Torstein Indrebø: Natural Gas, LNG and the Baltic Sea Page 17 Esa Härmälä: Europe needs energy investments Page 18 Rokas Masiulis: LNG terminal in Lithuania – a small solution to a very large problem Page 19 Monika Rozmarynowska: LNG import terminals in Baltic Sea Region Review of current projects Page 21 Juha Kettunen: Environment projects in the Central Baltic Programme Page 22 Markus Granlund: Responsible university education of business and economics in the BRE Page 23 EXPERT ARTICLES CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE To receive a free copy, print or register at www.tse.utu.fi/pei Baltic Rim Economies Quarterly Review ISSUE NO. -
ESA Bulletin (No
IN BRIEF-LO 29/8/00 3:36 pm Page 2 r bulletin 103 — august 2000 ESA and the EC new technology will revolutionise our Open Joint Galileo transport systems, increasing safety and improving efficiency. This will make for a Programme Office better quality of life and less pollution in On 4 May ESA’s Director General Antonio our cities. Galileo will also bring benefits to Rodotà and European Commission Vice- other aspects of everyday life, with President Loyola de Palacio opened the precision farming raising yields, improved Galileo Programme Office at 24-26 Rue information for emergency services De Mot, in Brussels, Belgium. The new speeding up response times, and more office will coordinate studies already under reliable and accurate time signals way and make preparations for decisions underpinning our most vital computer and by the Board directing the programme, communications networks. It could also provide technical support to the Board contribute greatly to the improvement of and the industrial and scientific teams maritime safety issues. In Brief working on Galileo, and prepare the way for decisions on the transition to the The definition phase of the Galileo implementation phase. programme is being run by the Commission’s Directorate-General for At the opening, Antonio Rodotà noted that Energy and Transport, with ESA as an “this marks a step forward in one of equal partner in the joint management Europe’s most promising new space Board and playing a full role in technical programmes”, and Mrs de Palacio added development. Industry has been pushing “the office is the first permanent physical ahead with the various studies required for link between the two main European this phase, and user groups have been institutions, which are pressing ahead with defining their potential needs, which will work on our new satellite-based eventually determine the system navigation, positioning and precision performance requirements. -
Exclusions to Patentable Subject Matter in the United Kingdom: Lessons for Canadian and American Courts
CROWNE_FINAL.DOCX 6/8/2010 1:40 PM A REVIEW OF THE ‘AS SUCH’ EXCLUSIONS TO PATENTABLE SUBJECT MATTER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM: LESSONS FOR CANADIAN AND AMERICAN COURTS Emir Aly Crowne-Mohammed* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 459 II. THE ‘AS SUCH’ EXCLUSIONS .............................................. 463 A. DISCOVERIES, SCIENTIFIC THEORIES OR MATHEMATICAL METHODS ................................... 466 B. LITERARY, DRAMATIC, MUSICAL OR ARTISTIC WORK OR OTHER AESTHETIC CREATIONS ........ 469 C. SCHEMES, RULES OR METHODS FOR PERFORMING A MENTAL ACT, PLAYING GAMES OR DOING BUSINESS, OR A PROGRAM FOR A COMPUTER ..................................................... 470 III. CONCLUSION ....................................................................... 485 * Assistant Professor, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. I would like to acknowledge the generous funding provided by the Foundation for Legal Research (in particular), and the Law Foundation of Ontario (in general), in support of this research. The exceptional editorial work of the students at the Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology is also admirably acknowledged. 457 CROWNE_FINAL.DOCX 6/8/2010 1:40 PM 458 ALB. L.J. SCI. & TECH. [Vol. 20.3 ABSTRACT In this paper, I examine the ‘as such’ exclusions to patentable subject matter found in sub-section 1(2) of the British Patents Act 1977. Sub-section 1(2) essentially covers abstract subject matter that is either ephemeral in nature (like discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods), or subject matter that is generally covered by the law of copyright insofar as the patent application relates to that those items in-and-of themselves (‘as such’). This sub-section is of particular interest because it is a statutory codification of certain a priori ‘truths’ or ‘skills’ that seem inappropriate to protect through a patent monopoly. -
Annual Scientific Report 2013 on the Cover Structure 3Fof in the Protein Data Bank, Determined by Laponogov, I
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute Annual Scientific Report 2013 On the cover Structure 3fof in the Protein Data Bank, determined by Laponogov, I. et al. (2009) Structural insight into the quinolone-DNA cleavage complex of type IIA topoisomerases. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 667-669. © 2014 European Molecular Biology Laboratory This publication was produced by the External Relations team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) A digital version of the brochure can be found at www.ebi.ac.uk/about/brochures For more information about EMBL-EBI please contact: [email protected] Contents Introduction & overview 3 Services 8 Genes, genomes and variation 8 Molecular atlas 12 Proteins and protein families 14 Molecular and cellular structures 18 Chemical biology 20 Molecular systems 22 Cross-domain tools and resources 24 Research 26 Support 32 ELIXIR 36 Facts and figures 38 Funding & resource allocation 38 Growth of core resources 40 Collaborations 42 Our staff in 2013 44 Scientific advisory committees 46 Major database collaborations 50 Publications 52 Organisation of EMBL-EBI leadership 61 2013 EMBL-EBI Annual Scientific Report 1 Foreword Welcome to EMBL-EBI’s 2013 Annual Scientific Report. Here we look back on our major achievements during the year, reflecting on the delivery of our world-class services, research, training, industry collaboration and European coordination of life-science data. The past year has been one full of exciting changes, both scientifically and organisationally. We unveiled a new website that helps users explore our resources more seamlessly, saw the publication of ground-breaking work in data storage and synthetic biology, joined the global alliance for global health, built important new relationships with our partners in industry and celebrated the launch of ELIXIR. -
Policy Policy Bridge
POLICY BRIDGE THE INNovatioN RoAD MAP For the past two years, leaders in European policy, industry and academia have been meeting to discuss new ideas in innovation policy. These are dispatches from those meetings, organised by Science|Business media network. CMYK Blue: 10 0/15/0/35 Orange: 0/75/90/0 With thanks to our members Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Chalmers University of Technology ESADE ETH-Zürich Imperial College London INSEAD Karolinska Institutet KU Leuven The Norwegian University of Science and Technology ParisTech (association of 10 Grandes Écoles) Politecnico di Milano TU Delft The University of Cambridge University College London The University of Warwick SetSquared Partnership of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Southampton and Surrey Editor’s LEttEr AIRING FRESH IDEAS IN INNovatioN PoLICy Innovation is vital for jobs, prosperity and coffee and croissants, dull speeches and a social progress – and smart government brief exchange of conventional wisdom.” policy to encourage it is urgently needed. But, as anyone familiar with the inner That has to change. Europe’s innovation workings of the European Union knows, it performance is lagging – in fact, one can be very hard to get an open airing of European Commission staff analysis forecast new ideas in Brussels. that, at the rate China and India are rising and the EU is sinking, Europe may one day To help fix that, for the past two years the be the home of just 10 per cent of global Science|Business media network has been knowledge creation. Already, its universities organising a series of high-level meetings are not keeping up: only two Europeans to encourage frank debate among leaders in figure on the most widely watched list of European policy, academia and industry. -
FIABCI Baltic Real Estate Development Forum - Cautious Optimism
5th October, 2015, Riga FIABCI Baltic Multinational Chapter press release: FIABCI Baltic Real Estate Development Forum - cautious optimism Macroeconomic growth prospects in the Baltic countries are currently quite good: households’ financial situation has improved, as well as the potential to attract young customers with purchasing power, being evidenced by demographic analysis, they all are setting forth the reason for cautious optimism. Such future prospects in the Baltic Real Estate market are seen by the project developers who gathered for the first Baltic Real Estate Development Forum held in Riga, on 29 September 2015. The Forum was organized by the Latvian Real Estate Association LANIDA, Lithuanian Real Estate Development Association LNTPA and the International Real Estate Federation Baltic Multinational chapter FIABCI Baltic in collaboration with Nordea Bank support. The Tallink Hotel Riga housed, on its premises, the real estate (RE) professionals from the three Baltic countries for the first Development Forum to discuss the issues affecting the sector. The Forum had the opportunity to meet in one place and explore the experience of the three Baltic countries as well as high-caliber foreign experts, successful and influential investors, RE developers and economists as well as to establish contacts to develop joint projects in the future. Upon opening the Forum, Antonio Campagnoli, FIABCI Regional President for Europe & Near East wished the developers to think broadly and to do routine things differently. He also mentioned the tendency that, in addition to bank funding, still more important alternative investment instruments of RE development and investment became, as an example citing recently invested 2 billion euros, so- called crowdfunding. -
18Th BDF Summit in Stockholm
18th BDF Summit in Stockholm The 18th Baltic Development Forum Summit will be held in Stockholm on 8 November 2016, in conjunction with the 7th Strategy Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. Taking stock of the current state of the Baltic Sea Region, the 18th BDF Summit will explore how we can find common ground in a changing environment, looking closer at the regional economic affairs, the political climate, and the potential for business. 18th BDF Summit Programme, 8 November 08.30-09.00 Registration and Coffee 09.00-09.10 Welcome Lene Espersen, Chairman, Baltic Development Forum 09.10-09.50 State of the Baltic Sea Region 2016 With the launch of the 2016 State of the Region Report we will provide an overview of the economic trends in the Baltic Sea Region, including outlooks on investments, growth and competitiveness. Christian Ketels, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm School of Economics, and Faculty Member, Harvard Business School Helge Pedersen, Group Chief Economist, Nordea Comments by: Jan Vapaavuori, Vice-President and Member of the Management Committee, European Investment Bank 09.50-10.05 Special Address Martina Larkin, Head of Europe and Eurasia and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum 10.05-10.45 Business Responses to Current Regional Trends What defines the business climate in the Baltic Sea Region in 2016? Is the region still attractive to invest in, and what is its biggest potential? In a world increasingly impacted by global trends and volatile business environment, how can we build on -
Report on the 1999 Baltic Development Forum Summit: Promoting the Spirit of Co-Operation in the Baltic Sea Region
Baltic Development Forum Report on the 1999 Baltic Development Forum summit: Promoting the spirit of co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region Report on the 1999 Baltic Development Forum summit 1 Baltic Development Forum Written by Christian Toksvig Rapporteurs: Sir Garry Johnson (stability) Stefan Widomski (business) Erkki Toivanen (culture and identity) Kaj Juul-Pedersen (IT/telecom) he 1999 summit of Baltic Development Forum marked the first time that the Baltic Sea Region's leading politicians, academics, and business and media executives convened for discussions and networking. The T broad theme of the summit was advancing partnership and growth in the Baltic Sea Region, and the concept of partnership was clearly embraced by the more than 250 participants who spent three sunny spring days in Copenhagen building networks across borders. There are already numerous ties between businesses and organisations in the region. However, most of them lie within close-knit circles of specific industries or political fields. The Baltic Development Forum summit was the first opportunity for intense cross-sector networking between Baltic Sea executives. 32 speakers provided an educating and entertaining background for the discussions, covering such diverse topics as stability, management, investment, culture and identity, energy and IT/telecom. This report summarises and puts into perspective the discussions and messages brought forth at the Baltic Development Forum summit, as seen by the secretariat and the respective rapporteurs on each of the summit's themes. NATO and EU enlargement the ball is rolling he accession of the Baltic states and Poland to the European Union and NATO is a recurring theme in every discussion of the Baltic Sea Region, underlining that the security situation in the region remains unresolved, T albeit much improved. -
Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity the International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology VOLUME 2 Editors Anthony Mark Cutter, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Bert Gordijn, Ethics Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland Gary E. Marchant, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, University of Arizona, USA Alain Pompidou, Former President, European Patent Office, Munich, Germany Editorial Board Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic & Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff, UK Henk ten Have, Director, UNESCO Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Paris, France Søren Holm, Director, Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society, Cardiff, UK George Khushf, Humanities Director, Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina, USA Dieter Birnbacher, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Germany Edmund Pellegrino, Chair, President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, USA Graeme Laurie, Co-Director, AHRC Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, UK Bartha Maria Knoppers, Chair in Law and Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law, King’s College London, UK Paul Stephen Dempsey, Professor & Director of the Institute of Air & Space Law, Université de Montréal, Canada Justice Michael Kirby; High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia Rene Oosterlinck, Director of External Relations, European Space Agency, Paris Serge Gutwirth, Professor of Human Rights, Comparative Law, Legal -
Evaluating New Technologies the International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
Evaluating New Technologies The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology VOLUME 3 Editors Anthony Mark Cutter, Centre for Professional Ethics, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom Bert Gordijn, Ethics Institute, Dublin City University, Ireland Gary E. Marchant, Executive Director, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, University of Arizona, USA Alain Pompidou, Former President, European Patent Office, Munich, Germany Editorial Board Ruth Chadwick, Director, ESRC Centre for Economic & Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff, UK Henk ten Have, Director, UNESCO Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Paris, France Søren Holm, Director, Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society, Cardiff, UK George Khushf, Humanities Director, Center for Bioethics, University of South Carolina, USA Dieter Birnbacher, Professor, Institute of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-Universit¨at, Germany Edmund Pellegrino, Chair, President’s Council on Bioethics, Washington, DC, USA Graeme Laurie, Co-Director, AHRC Centre for Intellectual Property and Technology Law, UK Bartha Maria Knoppers, Chair in Law and Medicine, Universit´e de Montr´eal, Canada Roger Brownsword, Professor of Law, King’s College London, UK Paul Stephen Dempsey, Professor & Director of the Institute of Air & Space Law, Universit´e de Montr´eal, Canada Justice Michael Kirby; High Court of Australia, Canberra, Australia Rene Oosterlinck, Director of External Relations, European Space Agency, Paris Serge Gutwirth, Professor of Human Rights, Comparative Law, Legal theory -
PRELIMINARY Conference Programme – 7Th Strategy Forum of the EUSBSR
Draft version 2016-10-07 PRELIMINARY Conference Programme – 7th Strategy Forum of the EUSBSR Venue: The Brewery Conference Centre, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 2, Stockholm For the latest updates, see strategyforum2016.eu Tuesday 8 November 2016 08.00 Registration opens 09:00-12.00 18th Baltic Development Forum Summit (separate event) Early Arrivals Myth - Busting Trafficking in Human beings “This is what we need to do for a cleaner Parallel sea.” Sectors speak it out Seminars & Organiser: Nordic Council of Ministers, Council Workshops of the Baltic Sea States and County Organiser: HELCOM Administrative Board of Stockholm 09:30 - 10:30 Why Gender Matters Financing Climate Action Organiser: Winnet Organiser: Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat Early Arrivals Cultural gaming as an innovative and How to embed inland navigation in Parallel interactive tool for modelling smart and transport chains? Seminars & sustainable regions Workshops Organiser: Interreg Baltic Sea Region Organiser: Nordic Council of Ministers project EMMA 10:40-11:50 office in Latvia How to engage farmers and communities in Fisheries as part of integrated Baltic Sea water management marine management – what are the challenges and opportunities? Organisers: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and WWF Organiser: FISHSEC 12:00-13:00 Networking Lunch Draft version 2016-10-07 Inspiration Conference moderator Session I Monika Zamachowska, Polish journalist and moderator specialized in European affairs and EU integration with extensive experience from Baltic Sea