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Reports that the European Commission is planning to transform the European Union's Framework research program as a tool to bring the idea of a single European research area nearer reality. Release of proposals for the European Union's Framework 6 program in a commission discussion paper; Subjects recommended to be treated as priorities under the discussion paper released by the European Commission. INSET: FINDINGS, by Steve Farrar..

According to a European Commission (EC) report on the continuing transatlantic brain-drain reveals that U.S. universities and research jobs are attracting growing numbers of European Union researchers. The EC paper voiced concern that 75 percent of European Union countries-born U.S. doctorate recipients have no specific plans to return to the European Union (EU), and more and more are choosing to stay in the U.S. The most important reason keeping EU-born scientists and engineers abroad has been quality of work. Better prospects and projects and easier access to leading technologies were most often cited as reasons behind plans to work abroad.

Reports that the Universities Association for Continuing Education has condemned the European Commission's white paper on teaching and learning as too modest in its policy proposals. Support for the white paper's emphasis on building a learning society.

Reports on the contents of a policy paper by the Academia Europaea regarding the establishment of the European Research Council. Need for the European Research Council to support curiosity-driven research with no strings attached; Call for the council to be 100% funded by the European Union.

Reports that the European Commission (EC) should investigate streamlining its funding to promote research into education and training, according to Euro MP Sue Waddington. Findings in the EC's White Paper `Towards a Learning Society'; Making lifelong training a reality; Role of information technology in education.