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25/04/2012 2nd FGCSIC Seminar on Ageing

On 25 April, Emilio Lora-Tamayo, President of the Spanish National Research...[+]
11/04/2012 2nd FGCSIC Seminar on Ageing

On Wednesday 25 April, Fundación General CSIC will be holding its second seminar on Ageing at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, where it will present the Proyectos Cero 2011 projects on th...[+]
02/04/2012 Lychnos 8. Special issue on ageing

Lychnos 8, published in March 2012, takes a look at the subject of ageing from various angles and disciplines. The results of the survey run by the Fundación General CSIC on ageing-relate...[+]
27/12/2011 Information Technology in Lychnos 7

Issue 7 of Lychnos, published in December 2011, focuses on information technology. The issue starts with an introduction to the field by Jesús Marco de Lucas, a research professor at the...[+]
20/12/2011 Frontier research

Frontiers is one of the Fundación General CSIC’s four strategic lines, a...[+]
05/12/2011 Fundación General CSIC and Obra Social “la Caixa” grant funding for five Proyectos Cero projects on Ageing

The Fundación General CSIC's 2011 Proyectos Cero call for proposals on Ageing, backed by Obra Social "la Caixa" with additional support from the CSIC, has awarded funding to five research...[+]
29/11/2011 Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación General CSIC

The Board of Trustees of the Fundación General CSIC met today, 29 November 2011, at the headquarters of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). The trustees expressed their continuing suppor...[+]
15/11/2011 The FGCSIC organises another workshop at Caixa Forum

What is strategic R&D planning? How can its objectives be defined? What exa...[+]
08/11/2011 2nd CPAN Science Communication Competition

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31/10/2011 EmTech conference

From 26-27 October the Málaga convention centre hosted the year's main event by the journal Technology Review, which is publish...[+]
21/10/2011 European TrendChart project

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18/10/2011 A Moroccan and a Spaniard win the International Science Mini-Marathon

Athletes Vanessa Veiga and Mohammed Blal were the winners of the 31st International Science Mini-Marathon, organised by the CSIC and sponsored, among other institutions, by the Fundación General C...[+]
07/10/2011 31st International Science Mini-Marathon

The Fundación General CSIC is taking part in the XXXI Carrera Internacional de la Ciencia...[+]
07/10/2011 The FGCSIC presents its report on energy in the automotive sector at Green Cars 2011

The Fundación General CSIC recently took part in the "Green Cars 2011: proyectos en marcha" [projects in progress] seminar with the presentation in the Posters section of its Report on R&D into en...[+]
06/10/2011 Energy in the automotive industry, in Lychnos 6

Issue 6 of the FGCSIC's journal Lychnos looks at the topic of energy in the automotive industry. This is an area which, in view of its impact in terms of the interaction between human bein...[+]
21/09/2011 Workshop - How can we measure science?

On 20 September the second in the FGCSIC’s series of workshops scheduled...[+]
19/09/2011 Online survey on automotive energy

The Fundación General CSIC is continuing its line of science and technology foresight activities with the launch of an on-line survey on R&D and innovation in energy in the automotive industry....[+]
19/09/2011 FGCSIC launches its Laboratories initiative

The president of the Fundación General CSIC, Rafael Rodrigo, announced on 19 September the launch of the first "Laboratorio FGCSIC," which will be led by the mathematician Charles Fefferman and ho...[+]
15/09/2011 How can we measure science? An FGCSIC workshop

The second in the FGCSIC's workshop series is due to be held on 20 September, at CaixaForum Madrid. This all-day event will examine the issue of measuring scientific and technical output, in terms...[+]
30/06/2011 2nd CPAN Communicating Science Competition

CPAN, the National Particle, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics Centre (Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear), in conjunction with Fundación General CSIC, has annou...[+]
29/06/2011 Frontier research in Lychnos 5

Issue 5 of the Journal of Lychnos, published in June 2011, is a special issue on frontier research, one of the Fundación General CSIC's four strategic lines. The issue starts with...[+]
28/06/2011 FGCSIC survey on R&D on ageing

The Fundación General FGCSIC, as part of its strategic line on ageing, has launched a survey aimed primarily at researchers and experts in the field, the results and analysis from which will carry...[+]
26/05/2011 Particle physics science communication prizes

The Spanish National Particle Physics, Astroparticles and Nuclear Physics Centre, CPAN, in collaboration with Fundación...[+]
25/05/2011 Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence at an FGCSIC workshop

The first of the “Workshops FGCSIC” series was held on 25 May, at the headquarters of CaixaForum Madrid, to discuss key aspects of technology watch and competitive intelligence. Mario E...[+]
24/05/2011 The FGCSIC is collaborating with MIT on the tr35 Prizes in Spain

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), through its publication Technology R...[+]
05/05/2011 Technology Watch and Competitive Intelligence at FGCSIC WORKSHOPS

The FGCSIC Workshops are a new initiative with which the foundation aims to promote and publicise activities and topics in which the Fundación General CSIC is interested, through the organisation...[+]
07/04/2011 TV programme on Alzheimer's disease

To mark the International Year of Research into Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases, the Fundación General CSIC has taken part in the production of a programme called "Claves de Alzhe...[+]
25/03/2011 Human ecology and development in Lychnos 4

Issue number 4 of the journal Lychnos, published in March 2011, is devoted to another of Fundación General CSIC's strategic lines: Human ecology and development. This special issue theref...[+]
28/02/2011 First CPAN-Fundación General CSIC Science Communication Competition

The Spanish National Particle Physics, Astroparticles and Nuclear Physics Centre, CPAN (Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nuclear), has awarded t...[+]
21/02/2011 SpeakingImage: add interactive notes to your images

Fundación General CSIC, in collaboration with the IT firm 2mdc, has just launched SpeakingImage, an online application aimed at the scien...[+]
03/02/2011 FGCSIC Report on RTD relating to Ageing

Given the importance of the topic, population ageing plays an important role in the various strategies and lines of action for research and innovation policies in the world’s main economies....[+]
02/02/2011 Evaluation of INTA's Strategic Plans

During the last week of January the on-site phase of the evaluation of the 2011-2015 Strategic Plans prepared by the various functional units of the National Institute of Aerospace Technology (Inst...[+]
28/01/2011 FGCSIC becomes a local agent for the PIDI network

Under an agreement signed with the Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (Centre for Industrial Technology Development, CDTI), the Fundación General CSIC has joine...[+]
18/01/2011 Awarding of the FGCSIC’s Proyectos Cero on Threatened Species

Rafael Rodrigo, president of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and of the Fundación General CSIC (FGCSIC), and Emilio Botín...[+]
13/01/2011 Award Ceremony for the Proyectos Cero call on Endangered Species

The official announcement of the winners of the Fundación General CSIC's Proyectos Cero Endangered Species funding is taking place on Tuesday, 18 January at the headquarters of the Consejo Superio...[+]
13/01/2011 Call for Proyectos Cero proposals on Aging

On January 15 Fundación General CSIC launched its first Proyectos Cero call for project proposals on Aging in order to promote and fund the running of high-impact research addressing the iss...[+]
04/01/2011 FGCSIC joins the ERAWATCH network

In December 2010 the Fundación General CSIC joined the ERAWATCH network as an associate member (http://www.erawatch-network.com/). The ERAWATCH Network, established in 2005, brings to...[+]
30/12/2010 Microsites on Ageing and Endangered Species

In order to provide specific informati...[+]
28/12/2010 Lychnos. Digital Edition

Fundación General CSIC has launched a digital edition of Lychnos, its quarterly science journal for non-specialists, which is published in print form in both Spanish and English....[+]
27/12/2010 Endangered species in Lychnos 3

Issue 3 of the journal Lychnos, published in December 2010, is devoted to the issue of endangered species. The journal starts with an introduction to the subject by Enrique Macphers...[+]
30/11/2010 FGCSIC Proyectos Cero on Endangered Species funding decisions announced

The Fundación General CSIC’s 2010 call for Proyectos Cero proposals on Endangered Species was launched on March 15 and the winning proposals were announced on October 7. Five projects...[+]
23/11/2010 The FGCSIC seminar on ageing is broadcast live online

The Fundación General CSIC broadcast its seminar on ageing, held on 16 November, live via video streaming. Around a hundred people followed the event online....[+]
17/11/2010 Obra Social “la Caixa”, the CSIC and the Fundación General CSIC put ageing under the spotlight

Fundación General CSIC, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Obra Social “la Caixa” held a one day seminar on Ageing to present the various activities being run by the Fo...[+]
29/10/2010 Information video on Ageing

We are currently facing a global process of population ageing which, combined with the progressive lengthening of life expectancies and fall in birth rates, is reshaping the population pyramid &nda...[+]
25/10/2010 Seminar on Ageing

On Tuesday 16 November the Fundación General CSIC will be holding a seminar on ageing at the headquarters of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), at which the various activities bei...[+]
20/10/2010 30th International Science Run, Prize giving

On Sunday 17 October, 7,200 runners met to compete in the 30th International Science Mini-M...[+]
01/10/2010 LYCHNOS 2 takes a close-up look at ageing

The second issue of the journal Lychnos focuses on R&D in the field of ageing. To give a broad overview of the subject, it is subdivided into three sections: biomedicine, psychosocial...[+]
16/09/2010 Science video on threatened species

As part of its Threatened species strategic line, the Fundación General CSIC has produced a popular-science video on the situation of the threatened species nativ...[+]
16/09/2010 Science Communication Competition

In conjunction with the Fundación General CSIC, the National particle physics, astroparticles and nuclear physics centre, CPAN (Centro Nacional de Física de Partículas, Astropartículas y Nu...[+]
16/09/2010 English edition of the Foundation's journal Lychnos

In order to bring the Foundation's activities and strategic lines to a wider audience, and i...[+]
16/09/2010 30th International Science Run

With the motto '30 años dejando huella' (30 years' leaving footprints)...[+]
27/07/2010 Strategic Planning for the Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial

Madrid, 27 July 2010...[+]
12/07/2010 'Envejecimiento en positivo,' the Fundación General CSIC's blog on Madri+d

The blog Envejecimiento en positivo (ageing positively) has been launched by the Fundación General CSIC as part of its efforts to raise the profile of its strategic lines, in part...[+]
10/06/2010 The Fundación General CSIC publishes the first issue of its journal Lychnos

Lychnos: Notebooks of the Fundación General CSIC is a quarterly scientific journal addressing non-specialist audiences which aims to become a public forum fo...[+]
08/06/2010 Meeting of the Fundación General CSIC's Board of Trustees

Today, Tuesday 8 June 2010, at 12:00 o'clock, a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación General CSIC wa...[+]
19/04/2010 Free software to support R&D

The Fundación General CSIC has signed an agreement with Osiatis, a European company specialising in the management of computer and communications infrastructure, and with...[+]
16/03/2010 Presentation of the call for Proyectos Cero proposals on Threatened Species

The president of the CSIC and the Fundación General CSIC, Rafael Rodrigo, together with the Foundation's director, Ja...[+]
09/03/2010 The Fundación General CSIC launches the first call for Proyectos Cero proposals threatened species

The Fundación General CSIC has launched the first call for Proyectos Cero proposals for projects on threatened species, with the goal of promoting and funding the development of hig...[+]
01/03/2010 The Fundación General CSIC is due to conduct phase two of the strategic plans for the MICINN

The Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN), through its Sub-Directorate General for Scientific and Technological Infrastructure Planning, has entrusted the task of completing and optimising it...[+]
18/02/2010 The Fundación General CSIC has launched an enhanced version of its R&D search engine

The Fundación General CSIC has made a new version of its R&D search engine available to is the scientific community and any other interested users. This tool searches for...[+]
11/02/2010 Banco Santander is to provide the Fundación General CSIC with financial support over the next four years

The president of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Fundación General CSIC Rafael Rodrigo, and the president of Banco Santander, Emilio Bot&ia...[+]
01/09/2009 The Fundación General CSIC coordinated the definition of the CSIC's strategic plans for the period 2010-2013.

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) commissioned the Fundación General CSIC to plan and coordinate its Strategic Plans for 2010-2013, a task it performed between June...[+]
01/09/2009 The Fundación General CSIC planned and coordinated the strategic plans for the Ministry of Science and Innovation's special scientific facilities over the period 2010-2013.

The Ministry of Science and Innovation commissioned the Fundación General CSIC to design and coordinate the strategic plans for its special scientific/technical facilities (ICTSs...[+]