European Union Establishes First Pan-European Funding Agency

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In February, the European Union's Seventh Research Framework Pro gramme (FP7) officially launched the European Research Council (ERC). "The ERC will be the first pan-European funding agency for frontier research in all fields of knowledge, from the humanities and social sciences, to the life sciences and to the physical and engineering sciences," Fotis C. Kafatos, ERC president and chair of its Scientific Council, writes on the council web site (erc.europa.eu). working as health physicists-individuals who ensure that radiation sources are used safely-with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). In addition to similar jobs, the two shared a common interest in train collecting. One day, at a train store near Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, these two interests merged.