Sentences with phrase «science ministry»

The French treasury has trimmed 8 per cent off this year's science ministry budget as part of the country's general spending cuts, leaving many laboratories in financial difficulty.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Japanese science ministry began to report measurements of cesium - 137 in upland soil around the plant.

So when the time came for Schwartz, 29, to choose a Ph.D. program, he utilized a CIFRE agreement, a funding mechanism supported by the French science ministry through which young researchers are employed by a company and obtain a doctorate in partnership with a public lab.

«We have a strong science ministry, lots of scholarships and subsidies and new research buildings.

Perennial cuts are «choking» institutes «to the point of endangering their existence,» says a manifesto released last week by 19 institutes managed by the federal science ministry based in Brasília.

A spokesperson for the German Embassy in Washington, D.C., told ScienceInsider this afternoon that the experiment was deemed «acceptable» by the experts.The science ministry has found that «there are no scientific or legal concerns against LOHAFEX,» he said.

He says the former science ministry — which was merged into the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in 2011 — should have made sure that research funds were adequately spent and deplores the «real mismanagement» at the department.

Internal education and science ministry documents obtained by Gazeta.ru indicate that the layoffs are the price the scientific community must pay for a doubling of scientists» salaries earlier this year.

The move, approved at a cabinet meeting on 26 July, is the latest in an escalating conflict between the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts (CANU), which says its academic autonomy is under attack, and the Montenegrin science ministry, which seeks to merge the two academies.

The previous administration promised to create a separate science ministry and even issued a draft law last year to set it up — but the plans have so far gone nowhere, says Pablo Astudillo, who in 2010 co-founded the campaign More Science for Chile.

I run a creation science ministry called Genesis Evidence Ministry (search for website), defending the truth of the Bible.

MEXT, the Japanese science ministry, has been monitoring radioactive iodine and caesium, considered most harmful to health, in soil 25 to 58 kilometres from the plant since 18 March.

For more details about how to apply, click on the Association Nationale de la Recherche Technique (ANRT), which manages the agreements on behalf of the French science ministry.

(The lab's third Ph.D. student, Joanna Ciszewska - Marciniak, works on pathogens that attack willows, another crop that is becoming more important as a biofuel source, with funding from Poland's science ministry.)

At the end of 2017, the science ministry issued a 3 - year plan to guide AI development, and named several large companies as «national champions» in key fields: for example, Baidu in autonomous driving, and Tencent in computer vision for medical diagnosis.

A constitutional amendment approved last year prohibits the federal government to increase spending above inflation for the next 20 years The situation is «dramatic,» says the science ministry's executive secretary, Elton Zacarias.

CONICYT has lacked a director since José Miguel Aguilera resigned eight months ago, and the country's new president, Michelle Bachelet, has frozen plans to create a science ministry (see Nature 507, 412 — 413; 2014).

Vardhan's most pressing task may be to revitalize the science ministry, which languished in the last few years of the previous government.

The most recent large project approved for funding is the Long Latin American Millimeter Array radio telescope, a joint project between Brazil and Argentina that will receive $ 12.6 million from the agency and an equal amount from Brazil's science ministry.

This year, the science ministry absorbed a 44 % budget decrease.

The science ministry will gain in stature by absorbing the Natural Science Foundation of China, the nation's main source of peer - reviewed science funding.

The science ministry has tended to take a less transparent approach to doling out its own research funds, scientists here say.

The creation of a national data center will apparently fall to the science ministry, though other ministries and local governments are expected to create their own centers as well.

India's science minister, Jitendra Singh, said «the demand was legitimate and the science ministry worked doubly hard to get this pay hike implemented quickly even in these times of economic hardship.»

The larger stipends come after months of protests, including a gathering of 800 scholars outside the gates of the science ministry here.

The science ministry has asked Russia's parliament to fast - track debate on the law, with passage expected in the next 2 weeks.

«They didn't even consult with us,» says physicist Alexei Khokhlov, vice-rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University and head of the science ministry's Council on Science.

At present, the science ministry controls research spending only through the science councils — some 17 per cent of the total spend.

The science ministry's funding program EXIST supports five regional competence centers that follow a quite similar approach to interconnecting academia and industry.

Late last year, the science ministry committed to spending nearly $ 3 million on preclinical studies of synthetic phosphoethanolamine.

«There is a considerable interest on both sides for such collaboration,» says Hans Eggers, assistant head of the science ministry's marine research division.

The science ministry kicked off this year with a slim $ 1.8 billion budget, but President Michel Temer's administration later reduced that by 44 %, imposing a spending cap of just over $ 1 billion.

The science ministry in 2013 doled out 22 billion RMB ($ 3.6 billion) in R&D funding, according to estimates by Cao and Dalian University of Technology's Yutao Sun, primarily through its 863 high - tech development and 973 basic research programs.

In an emergency move, in the first week of October the federal government allowed some additional spending, including a fresh $ 150 million allowance for the science ministry.

The government's initial proposal calls for reducing the science ministry's spending by an additional 15 % in the 2018 budget, which Brazil's legislature is scheduled to set by year's end.

The general population in northeastern Japan, however, has considerably less access to accurate, non-invasive radiation dose measuring equipment, a troubling situation made more so by Wednesday's announcement by Japan's science ministry that small amounts of cancer - causing radioactive strontium have been detected in soil and plants outside the 30 - kilometer zone around the plant where the government has advised people to stay indoors.

The day after CNIO's press release, the science ministry shot back with a statement that called the proposal for private funding «illegal.»

Several agencies, including Japan's science ministry, local authorities and the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant's operator, are already publishing measurements.

China's industry, environment and science ministries, which devise most new energy vehicle policies, did not respond to requests for comment.

Even before Rousseff's ouster, the Brazilian scientific community was struggling with severe cuts; in 2015, Rousseff's government slashed the science ministry's budget by 25 %, and support for the country's lauded graduate fellowships has languished.

The science ministry oversees more than a dozen research centers, while the communications ministry is responsible for managing concessions for radio, television, and internet.

In another blow to the once - dominant Russian Academy of Sciences, the science ministry makes all funding competitive, possibly starving academy institutes

The law, spearheaded by the science ministry, came into effect on 15 March, despite heavy opposition from CANU, which says it infringes on its freedom to choose its members based on merit alone.

Mercadante is leaving the science ministry to take charge of the education ministry and a much larger budget.

Days after taking power, it merged the science ministry with the communications ministry, leaving researchers fearing for what's left of their already diminished budgets.

In September 2013, Prime Minister Tony Abbott abolished the science ministry, handing much of the science portfolio to Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane.

In a report issued on 26 July, the science ministry says CANU has not complied; it has vetted DANU members as if it were electing new members, the government claims.

Critics pointed out this morning that Clark backed a 2007 parliamentary motion calling on the government to support homeopathic hospitals; they suggest that this pro-homeopathy stance could make Clark a poor fit for the science ministry.

The science ministry plans to spend $ 18 million of the funds immediately on graduate and postdoctoral research projects.

Its several thousand signatories demand that the government set up a science ministry and promote science as a part of the «national culture.»