Full coverage: Europe

30.01.2006 The Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce is organising a two day fact finding mission in February for British firms who want to find out more about selling into the fast-growing Dutch health ICT market.

27.01.2006 Many students applying to university in UK to study medicine or dentistry will be required to undergo a 90-minute computer aptitude test as part of their course application. The UKCAT (UK Clinical Aptitude Test) will feature verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning, abstract reasoning and problem solving questions; it will not cover academic subjects

27.01.2006 The Media Development Center published part of the results of the research “Technical Conditions and Potentials of the Broadcasting Activity in Macedonia”. The research was conducted by the research agency SMMRI (Strategic Marketing and Media Research Institute) and was financed by FOSIM together with OSCE.

26.01.2006 Centarot za razvoj na mediumi stavi na raspolaganje na javnosta del od rezultatite od istrazuvanjeto Tehnicki uslovi i potencijal vo radiodifuznata dejnost vo R. Makedonija (.ppt, 880 KB). Istrazuvanjeto go sprovede SMMRI (Strategic Marketing and Media Research Institute), bese finansirano od FIOOM zaedno so OBSE.

23.01.2006 The Prime Minister of Ireland, Bertie Ahern, on Tuesday launched the operations in India of the Global e-School and Communities Initiative, a multilaterally funded organisation that supports enhancing the reach and quality of education by deploying Information and Communication technologies.

13.01.2006 The European Union (EU) and China have officially launched in Beijing a four-year, 15.7 mln euro information society project focused on e-government.

12.01.2006 The garden is coming along nicely. Flowers spring into bloom in the herbaceous borders; mature trees are imported to cast their shade across the lawn. If only real life was this simple.

11.01.2006 The “Vinozito” Association of Farmers from Kicevo started offering a montly internet prepaid card (200 and 400 Denars value) to go with every canister with cheese sold by its members.

10.01.2006 Makedonija mora da napravi strategiju ako želi da pobegne sa dna lestvice po broju korisnika interneta, upozorili su eksperti. Prema nedavnim istraživanjima, citavih 70% stanovnika nikada nije koristilo internet, dok tek 6% svakodnevno izlazi na mrežu.

10.01.2006 The APRON Observatory provides a secure, high-tech environment for stakeholders from Europe's aviation sector to come together and share information with the aim of encouraging increased cooperation.

10.01.2006 The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics is organizing a Workshop on "Optimization Technologies for Low-Bandwidth Networks", to be held in Trieste, Italy, from the 9th to the 20th October 2006.

09.01.2006 Macedonia needs a strategy if it wants to escape the bottom rankings in the world in terms of internet use, warn the experts. According to recent surveys, full 70% of the population have never used internet services, while mere 6% go online on daily basis.

09.01.2006 In the Government communication Digital radio distribution (Comm. 2005/06:66), the Government notes that the distribution of radio is being further digitalised.