Articles by Richard Mumford, International Editor

Interference prevention and mitigation are to be addressed in the Asia-Pacific region through closer collaboration between national, regional and global satellite industry groups. The quality-assurance plans were announced during an Interference-Prevention Summit co-organised by the Interference Reduction Group (IRG), Global VSAT Forum (GVF) and Indonesian Satellite Industry Association (ASSI)...

A public–private partnership (PPP) contract signed with Astrium means that the European Space Agency (ESA) is moving ahead with an independent, European satellite system that will speed up the transmission of large quantities of data beginning in 2014. The PPP for the European Data Relay System (EDRS) demonstrates ESA's...

The ZigBee® Alliance and Energy@home will cooperate on the creation of an integrated residential energy services platform for Europe by leveraging four ZigBee standards. Under a liaison agreement, the groups will focus on blending the strengths of ZigBee Home Automation™, ZigBee Smart Energy™, ZigBee Telecom Services™ and ZigBee Gateway™...

The scientific community and other interested groups and individuals are being asked to help redefine the research landscape in Europe. The European Commission has launched a public consultation to find out how the European research environment can be radically improved. The goal is to achieve the European Research Area...

Proposed in January 2000 by the European Commission in its communication Towards a European Research Area, the creation of a European Research Area was given new impetus in 2007 with the European Commission's Green Paper on ERA. The Treaty of Lisbon introduces a legal basis for the creation of...

Seven partners from the German business and research communities are teaming up in the three-year RELY research project to explore ways of enhancing the quality, reliability and resilience of modern microelectronic systems. The focus will be on applications in transportation, medical technology and automation – sectors where microelectronics is...

To explore LTE technology and its possibilities, the independent research organisation TNO, is launching a trial in cooperation with Huawei. A test network will be set up on the outskirts of Delft, the Netherlands, with a number of market players and user groups scheduled to take part in the...

COST-TERRA, a forum spearheading a regulatory breakthrough for the European development of Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio (CR/SDR) technologies, is promoting more active trials of CR to identify its best feasible application, guide policy-makers to open a regulatory framework and facilitate development of the technology. After assessing several...

The first European antenna that is part of the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array (ALMA) was handed over to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in April. The antenna, which was under contract from the ESO, was manufactured by the European AEM Consortium (Thales Alenia Space, European Industrial Engineering and MT-Mechatronics)....

In an effort to help Europe develop world-class research and close the innovation gap between the European Union and its main competitors, the US and Japan, the EU is making about €7 B available in the latest round of grants. This is part of the €53 B available through...