The magazine of the european research area European Commission Copenhagen, a missed chance?

    The EU works for you: 

environmental 

research for today 

and tomorrow

2009, 94 pp, 

ISBN 978-92-79-11588-2

This book, printed on recycled paper, 

contains a selection of 51 key envi-

ronmental research projects funded 

by the European Union’s Sixth 

Framework Programme for Research 

and Technological Development. 

The projects are grouped into 

10 categories, including climate 

change, biodiversity and land and 

urban management. 

    Global Governance 

of Science

2009, 50 pp, 

ISBN 978-92-79-11309-3

This is the report by the Expert Group 

on Global Governance of Science 

to the European Commission’s 

Directorate-General for Research. 

Contributors include scholars, 

sociologists, philosophers and 

political analysts from Europe, 

the United States, China and 

South Africa.

is due to the inertial force of 

the Coriolis effect caused by 

the earth’s rotation, coupled with 

the geostrophic effects resulting 

from differential friction with 

the ground and the successive 

layers of air. The home-made 

apparatus creates an ascending 

movement rotating anti-clockwise, 

just like tornadoes in the north-

ern hemisphere. Turn the cube 

upside down and you change 

hemispheres…