Sentences with phrase «european scientific culture»

Within the year a European Commission policy paper will suggest how member states can enhance the science education they provide and so enrich European scientific culture.

Not exact matches

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

But neither can we afford to ignore the Christian heritage which formed the basis of the European culture from which the new world and its scientific methods developed.

Even if one of the traditional religious communities dominates the culture, it is now likely to be in competition with values stemming from the European Enlightenment — what I called scientific humanism.

«There is alarm across sectors as diverse as scientific research and culture as European funding is withdrawn.

Gago presented his director's report in Brussels at the closing conference of the European Week for Scientific Culture at the end of January.

The aim, according to Antonio Ruberti, the commissioner for research, «is to make European citizens and decision - makers more aware of the major issues of scientific culture and scientific education».

The European Commission has declared 22 to 26 November European Week for Scientific Culture.

«Whilst we claim to «punch above our weight» in research,» he notes in his new report, «we do not out - perform the countries with an embedded scientific culture that we might aspire to match such as the Western European democracies, Scandinavia or the US and Canada.

The European Week of Scientific Culture was the brainchild of Antonio Ruberti, who completes his spell as Science Commissioner at the end of the year.

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