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Innovative teachers + technology + smart policies = the active learning and collaborative skills required for the 21st century.
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If doctors could use natural user interfaces, like gestures, surgery could be quicker and safer.
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Microsoft is taking Facebook to the office and tailoring your Twitter feed.
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Teenagers use Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to form their social identities – in a world that may or may not include their parents.
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When Richard Banks’ grandfather died about five years ago, he left behind a suitcase filled with hundreds of photographs, many depicting his...
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Governments around the world are racing to invest in smart electricity grids to reduce energy consumption and battle climate change. The European...
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How often has a friend tweeted you from a restaurant? Weren’t you curious to know where exactly it was? Since late 2009, Twitter users have been...
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“Every human being is author of his own health or disease,” the Buddha said. Some 2,500 years later, technology is allowing patients to...
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Finland has set out to create a university that has innovation built into its foundations, merging three institutions into one along the way. Is...
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Electricity companies around the world are racing to develop equipment to help homes and apartments automatically slash energy use. These “smart...
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Are our schools and universities teaching the right skills to enable a new generation of IT practitioners to drive forward innovation? The...
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Belgian IT engineer Didier Beka had a new idea: software that would enable people with hearing or speaking disabilities to communicate by telephone....
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For French robotics pioneer Jean-Christophe Baillie, an entrepreneurial adventure that began in Paris five years ago led to a visit to...
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Fishing Cactus is a start-up that began in the world of entertainment games. Now it’s moving into what are called “serious games”...
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Billy Boyle is the kind of entrepreneur European policy makers would love to clone. Working out of a basement lab at Cambridge University, Boyle and...
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Today’s computer games depend on hand-held controllers that respond to physical touch. Kinect does away with any physical connection to the...
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European governments that cut spending on research and innovation to help rein in budget deficits risk sacrificing the EU’s future prosperity,...
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Microsoft Innovation Centres around Europe aim to help harness great ideas and turn them into successful businesses while creating jobs, helping...
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Go is a game so complex that raw computing power was never going to be enough to turn it into a competitive computer game. But two Cambridge...
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Personalised healthcare stands at the confluence of the most powerful technologies in the history of the life sciences.
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The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) is taking part in a pioneering EU Framework Programme 7 project on cloud computing , Venus-C - a...
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The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Microsoft joined forces in 2008 to create the BSC-Microsoft Research Centre.
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Sahara dust forecasting, cancer genome sequencing or the design of computer’s next generation of microprocessors are among the scientific...
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It’s been all change in Brussels, and innovation now has a new Commissioner. And Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has made it crystal clear that she...
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The European Environment Agency is using leading-edge technologies to enable citizens to find out about the state of the environment.
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A converted chapel in Barcelona is the home for a supercomputing centre that is helping to revolutionise the way we will use cloud computing.
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Europe and the US may have very different ways of funding health, but they have much in common, too. A new program is exploring what we might learn...
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Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American football match of the year. Pizza deliveries...
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There is one game-changer that can turn the promise of personalised healthcare into a reality. It is healthcare IT, says Alan Davies from GE...
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Huge industrial robots are now a mature industry. Young French entrepreneur Jean-Christophe Baillie believes it is time for them to move from...
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Biologists have long had to fight against the idea that theirs is a ‘soft’ science. Now, armed with tools from computer science, they are...
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The cloud is one of the most popular terms in IT today but perhaps also one of the least well defined. FUTURES guides you through the how and the why.
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Computer science can play a major role in fuelling scientific breakthroughs in other fields, but only if it can meet its own grand challenges, said...
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Andrew Herbert has always been fascinated by computing, completing his first degree in computational science in 1975 and since then gaining a PhD from...
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Interoperability and building trust in the privacy and security of eHealth systems is the route to patient-centric healthcare
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What developing countries need is a stable, sustainable, robust and low-cost means of delivering services and information.
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Take an ancient town, a new university, Microsoft Research and a fresh approach to computational systems biology. Mix well. Then apply…
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There’s a new technology coming into your home. But unlike many, this one should save you money.
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Big challenges can encourage big solutions, and at the end of last year there was no challenge bigger than Europe’s response to the economic...
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Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate.
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In May 2009, a Brussels seminar examined the potential of computers to save energy – and the obstacles to realising that potential.
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Software tools that help researchers to study the role of forests in climate change could make it easier to understand a wide variety of natural and...
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Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to make Europe more innovative and strengthen growth and competitiveness in the EU? Policymakers,...
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Peer Bork, who heads a team of bioinformatic researchers at the Heidelberg, Germany- based European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), has been...
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On 16 June 2009, the King of Belgium, Albert II, visited one of Belgium’s innovation hotspots, the Digital Innovation Valley in Mons. During the...
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When the new Commission is appointed, it will find a raft of proposals waiting for it – all aimed at putting research, development and...
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Fifty-five researchers met in Trento, Italy, in October to look for collaborative solutions to the limitations that are emerging in the way that...
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John Wood, Chair of the European Research Area Board, gives a personal assessment of how research needs to change and adapt to face the future.
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Inspired by biology, Klaus-Peter Zauner is working on a radically new kind of computer.
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Microsoft’s first European “mega data centre”, which opened recently on the western outskirts of Dublin, uses 50 per cent less...
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A new research group in Paris aims to use optimisation theory to find answers to the challenges of ensuring an efficient and sustainable future.
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The EU’s education commissioner, Ján Figel’, is pushing for change in European universities – to the economic benefit of all.
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As concerns about global warming grow, scientists are turning to sophisticated computational models to better understand and ultimately predict the...
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The European Commission has called on national governments and companies to apply information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to improve...
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We are all thinking more carefully about our impact on the environment, and this applies to one of the biggest sources of CO2 emissions in particular...
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Small computing devices, such as enhanced cameras, are becoming smarter and more capable: not only do they record visual input (video) but they are...
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The European Environment Agency is pleased with users’ responses to its water quality site and plans to expand environmental features in the...
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Cost-effective face-recognition software has been the springboard for success for one company spun out from the Politecnico di Milano. It has also won...
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Is this the ultimate challenge: to use computational techniques to construct a model of how the human body works? Nuala Moran takes a look.
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From conception to birth, death and beyond, the human body is all about change. Thus, a key issue in modelling any aspect of the body is to move...
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It's a simple idea – digitise the results of microscopy and accelerate the healthcare process. One university hospital researcher decided to...
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Microsoft’s SenseCam helps advance the study of neuroscience by enabling memory recall and opening the pathway for the development of new...
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A joint venture between Microsoft Research and the British Library is looking to address the needs of researchers as ‘extreme information...
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Youssef Hamadi: applied mathematics researcher and top-flight scientist, directing research projects in Cambridge and Orsay. It's an extraordinary...
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Frances's premier institute for computer science is now developing joint laboratories with international companies, including Microsoft, to tackle...
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Search is increasingly becoming the main way in which people interact with information online, no matter what form it takes or where it is stored...
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“The phone has a unique role. While the PC is the most powerful device, the phone is the most popular device… How do we bring all the...
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In February 2008, Microsoft launched the Microsoft Embedded Systems Development Centre (MESDC) in Aachen, Germany. The MESDC was created to foster...
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Microsoft's European Growth and Innovation Day brought together policymakers and software developers in Brussels to see how the IT industry can help...
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How do you get a Silicon Valley - or three of them - in Europe? And what can policy makers do to help? These were the themes of an innovative round of...
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Even as part of the largest industry computer science research organisation, Microsoft Research does not have a monopoly of talent or ideas, making...
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One of Europe's leading pioneers in the field of medical image analysis has been awarded the €250,000 Royal Society and Académie des...
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The European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC), in Aachen, Germany, opened five years ago. Since then, it has created an impressive track record in...
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Computer technologies have suffused the world we live in. They have created change and continue to create change. This is manifest not only on our...
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We spoke with Richard Harper, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge about the HCI 2020 ‘Being Human’ report.
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Computing has come a long way since the invention of the diminutive mouse. Unlike the keyboard, which was an adaptation of old technology, the mouse...
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Visit Alton Towers, the United Kingdom's biggest theme park, and you are offered a wristband. Wear it, and as you scream your way from Nemesis to...
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Microsoft, via its European Microsoft Innovation Centre (EMIC) in Aachen, Germany, is engaged in the ARTEMIS Joint Technology Initiative on scaleable,...
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As computers become more prevalent in our offices and homes, not only as PCs but also in media and entertainment devices and embedded in appliances,...
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For most consumers, the amount of energy that each electrical appliance in a household consumes is hidden.
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Are we prepared for the next generation of embedded and mobile computing devices?
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One of the gigs at this year's Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Europe, didn't take place on the stage but in the trash. Microsoft...
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Handheld computers for issuing tickets, reading meters, recording environmental data or taking orders are commonplace. Now attention has shifted to...
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FUTURES spoke with Jordi Ribas, head of the new Microsoft Search Technology Center.
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European Environment Agency and Microsoft Eye on Earth Observatory bring Europaan beach quality into sharp focus
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Paris-based startup Miyowa enlisted the support of European Union Grants Advisor (EUGA) and successfully applied for government funding to develop...
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It’s a familiar story: invented in Europe, commercialised abroad.
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Research and development in highly complex fields – such as embedded computer systems – relies heavily on partnerships in which the...
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Computing pervades everyday life: whether used in business or leisure, by individuals or communities, it offers opportunities for new ways of living...
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In an era of continual Internet innovation, one of the biggest trends is the Internet’s rapid growth as a platform for rich, high-definition...
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Just when you thought there was nothing new in pictures, along comes HD View and explodes all your preconceptions about what photography can do.
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The Photosynth experience justifies the use of the old truism: it has to be seen to be believed.
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Earlier this year Microsoft Research Cambridge, in partnership with Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio team, Lionhead Studios and Rare Ltd, brought...
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Programming an industrial robot is still an annoying task that requires too many details and expert knowledge. Each robot unit needs to be installed...
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One of the current projects of the Socio-Digital Systems Group atMicrosoft Research in Cambridge is ‘Family Archive’. This work arose from...
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As more and more people share data and opinions over the Internet, geographic and location information is becoming an increasingly important dimension...
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New geoweb applications such as Microsoft’s Virtual Earth are at the confluence of two massive innovation trends – user-generated content...
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Football supporters and other visitors to this summer's Euro2008 football championships in Austria and Switzerland can enjoy a new experience as they...
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Imagine a search engine capable of recognising the details of paintings rather than words. This is the challenge facing a joint Microsoft/INRIA...
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Few research issues are as significant as trying to work out how climate change might affect the environment. Unlike many scientific experiments, this...
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“When I'm making plans for my spare time, the most convenient way to do it is to ask for the location and places of restaurants, tourist sites...
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On 18 January 2008, Microsoft and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) announced the creation of the BSC – Microsoft Research Centre, which...
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“Mathematics must make a great leap forward”: this is the challenge that Georges Gonthier has set himself.
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It is a fact universally acknowledged: the pharmaceutical industry needs a new drug development paradigm. Systems biology promises the ability to...
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Computing and communication technologies have already had a massive impact on today's healthcare system. Even so, there is great potential for these...
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The rapid pace of industrialisation in India, China and elsewhere is pushing up the price of every commodity, from oil and copper, to wheat and...
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The free lunch is over
For the past 20 years the computer industry has grown on the back of ever-increasing clock rates. In line with Moore's law,...
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You can't capture the thrill and excitement of a football match by describing the individual players. Similarly, it is not possible to understand...
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In the global village, goes the standard economic theory, every region should have its own set of specialised skills to trade with the rest of the...
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“EUROPE has a team of star players, but it is not a star team.” That frank assessment of EUROPE's weaknesses and strengths in research was...
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Implementation of the Directive by member states is essential to the paradigm of ‘brain circulation' and the development of the European...
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Merely a concept at the start of the century, Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) has already completed the first stage of its growth, moving from an idea to...
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Driven by computer and network technologies, TV is undergoing a paradigm shift that is not only changing TV itself but also how people consume media...
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Year by year, the flood of content is rising all around us: television channels, books, music and the Internet - where not only traditional media but...
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Back in 2001, Matteo Berlucchi, an Italian entrepreneur and academic, was ploughing through his email inbox trying to sort out the important messages...
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Today, the efficient and innovative distribution and processing of information is at the core of all business activity – so the effects of new...
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Global Research Library 2020 (GRL 2020) is an initiative of the University of Washington Libraries and Microsoft Corporation to bring together global...
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The Tablet PC has broadened our concept of how we use a personal computer: a mobile computer with a screen that allows for inputs via a pen or...
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The folks at RARE, one of the iconic pioneers in computer gaming, like to joke that the quiet surrounds of their headquarters, deep in the UK...
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What if you could get assistance for your complicated business decisions by simply going through various What-If scenarios and having them visualised...
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The phenomenal growth of online advertising is driving demand for smarter tools to track results: enabling advertisers to see clearly how many people...
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Thanks to a unique partnership between the public, private and academic sectors in Portugal and Brazil, the decommissioned pyrite mine in Lousal, in...
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