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Oct 08

Italy: international cooperation call

Ministry of Foreign Affairs opens the call for proposals of joint research projects within the Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Italian Republic and the Arab Republic of Egypt for the years 2013-2015. Proposal can be submitted here, in the following priority research areas: Agriculture and Food Science and Technology Design Engineering …

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Oct 02

Italy’s world records -#4

Corruption costs Italy €50-60 billion in terms of GDP loss per year. That’s around €600 billion not spent on services in Italy in the last 10 years, Libera NGO reports. 12% of Italians have been asked for bribes in 2012, with financial outflows around €10 billion decreasing productivity by 6%. The reports bursts into the …

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Oct 01

Will high oil prices permanently cap economic growth?

The answer to this question is positive, Jeff Rubin said to Bloomberg past week. “For most of the last century, cheap oil powered global economic growth. But in the last decade, the price of oil has quadrupled, and that shift will permanently shackle the growth potential of the world’s economies.” See also our recent posts …

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Sep 30

Europe: calls

Innovation and RTD ICT EU-Brazil Coordinated call for small and medium projects in the FP7 Cooperation Programme. Deadline: 12.12.2012. FET Open Xtrack call for Future and emerging technologies in small and medium projects in the FP7 Cooperation Programme. Deadline: 29.01.2013. Environment 2 October 2012 is the final date to submit LIFE+ proposals 2012 to the …

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Sep 29

Renewables records in the European Union

About two-thirds of all the solar panels installed around the world in 2011 found homes in Europe, reports the European Union Joint Research Center. Collectively, European countries installed 18.5 gigawatts (GW) of solar in 2011 – an investment of $84 billion – bringing the region’s capacity to 52 GW. Germany accounts for 30 GW of that. …

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Sep 28

Peak Cheap Oil: Cantarell hits record low

Cantarell’s production has slid 74 percent since 2006 to 449,000 barrels a day last year, dragging down the country’s daily output. Cantarell’s output fell 14 percent from April 2011 to 400,000 barrels a day, the lowest since at least 1990, when the Energy Ministry started to publish Pemex’s production. Petroleos Mexicanos, the world’s third-largest oil …

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Sep 28

Quinto Conto Energia

Il DM 5 luglio 2012, pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 159 del 10 luglio 2012, cosiddetto Quinto Conto Energia, ridefinisce le modalità di incentivazione per la produzione di energia elettrica da fonte fotovoltaica. Le modalità di incentivazione previste dal Quinto Conto Energia si applicano a partire dal 27 agosto 2012 e cessano decorsi 30 giorni …

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