RESEARCH: CREATION OF A EUROPEAN SCIENTIFIC ADVICE E-NETWORK.

Yves Dumont, a scientific officer in the "Relations with Scientific Advisory Bodies" unit of the Commission's Science and Society directorate, who works on the SINAPSE project, said that work is beginning on the initiative now and a test version is expected to be operational in under a year. He indicated that the net-based network would help to broaden the knowledge base available to decision-makers by increasing the range and diversity of experts and making it easier for scientists who may...