President Barroso announces creation of a Science and Technology Advisory Council

EU News 101/2013

IP/13/168
Brussels
27 February 2013

The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has announced today the creation of a Science and Technology Advisory Council. This informal advisory body held its first meeting today in Brussels.

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The creation of the Advisory Council follows the President’s appointment of Professor Anne Glover as the European Commission’s first Chief Scientific Adviser in January 2012, aiming at ensuring more evidence-based European Union policy-making, but also at promoting the uptake of science & technology in society, including a better transfer of knowledge from the scientific world to industry.

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http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-168_en.htm?locale=en

1st meeting of the Science and Technology Advisory Council. Date: 27/02/2013 Reference: P-022773/00-02 Location: Brussels - EC/Berlaymont ©EU, 2013, URL

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