Descartes Prize for Research and Science 2005
The EU Commissioner for Science and Research has awarded the prestigious EU Descartes Research Prizes, worth 1.000 000 Euro, to outstanding European research teams in genetics, climate change, astronomy, social sciences, and disease management.
The prize was divided among five pan-European teams working in key European research areas: the EXCEL team for developing a new class of artificial meta-materials, the CECA team for breakthrough findings on climate and environmental change in the Arctic, the PULSE team for demonstrating the impact of European pulsar science on modern physics, the ESS project, European Social Survey, for radical innovations in cross-national surveys, and the EURO-PID project for cutting-edge research on a group of over 130 rare genetically determined diseases known as primary immunodeficiencies. The jury prized scientific excellence as well as European value, and the five laureates will receive 200,000 each. Four of the five teams have German participation.
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Site of the EU Descartes Prize
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