DUBLIN, 28-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Religious education in Irish primary schools should not promote any particular religion over others and should also include the study of non-religious worldviews such as Humanism, according to sociologists at Trinity College Dublin. Growing secularisation of … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Ireland, Religion, Science, Society
Tagged Irish primary schools, Religion, Religious education, Trinity College Dublin
Branson signs Project Literacy petition, raising awareness of the 757m people who can’t read, write or sign their name LONDON, 23-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Richard Branson has signed the largest petition ever committed to raising awareness of the global challenge … Read the full press release
SURREY, 23-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Samaritans’ Press team has won a national public relations award for their work with the media on the reporting of the suicide of Robin Williams last year. The team was highly commended in the Issues … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Media, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Crisis management, PR award, PR Week Awards, Robin Williams, Robin Williams suicide, Samaritans
PARIS, 20-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Terrorist financing is high on the agenda for the FATF Plenary week, which starts on Saturday 17 October. This will be the first Plenary meeting under the Korean presidency of Mr. Je-Yoon Shin. The week of … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, France, Government, Society
Tagged FATF, FATF Plenary week, Terrorist, terrorist financing
PARIS, 20-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group (ACWG) held a joint Experts Meeting on Corruption in Paris on 17 October 2015. This is the fifth time that the FATF and G20 ACWG … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, France, Government, Society
Tagged ACWG, Anti-Corruption Working Group, Corruption in Paris, FATF, Financial Action Task Force, G20, Mr. Mete Demirci
Mondelēz International scales up Cocoa Life in Côte d’Ivoire with Barry Callebaut and Solidaridad Will Contribute to Doubling Farmers Reach to 26,000 by 2016 Supplier and Development NGO Work Side by Side on the Ground By 2022, $400 Million Investment … Read the full press release
Popularity of Swish hastens digitalisation of country’s money STOCKHOLM, 16-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Sweden is on track to becoming the world’s first cashless society, thanks to the country’s embrace of IT, as well as a crackdown on organized crime and … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Finland, Society, Sweden
Tagged Danish banks, KTH, Niklas Arvidsson:, world's first cashless society
Gütersloh, Germany, 13-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Jeder Mensch hat ein Recht darauf, in Würde alt zu werden. Dazu gehört ein auskömmliches Einkommen im Alter. Doch viele Deutsche sind bereits heute armutsgefährdet. Wir haben die Altersarmut nach Bundesländern und sozialen Gruppen untersucht und … Read the full press release
BERLIN, 12-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The refugee/migrant crisis, improving the reporting of science stories and the future of journalism in a post-Snowden world are all on the agenda at the 10th News Assembly in Berlin on 26 – 27 October. … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Media, Science, Society
Tagged 10th News Assembly in Berlin, Alan Pearce, Carl Honoré, EBU, Reporting on refugee crisis, Snowden
BRUSSELS, 1-10-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — It has been a hot summer in the fight against cigarette smuggling: customs administrations in several EU Member States have seized 125 million cigarettes with the support of the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) over the … Read the full press release
Posted in European Union, Government, Law, Society
Tagged cigarettes, Mr Giovanni Kessler, OLAF
In the context of the efforts to help addressing the plight of the refugees in the wider Middle East region, the European Union (EU) announced that it will support Palestine refugees with fresh funding totalling € 30 million. BRUSSELS, 1-10-2015 … Read the full press release
Posted in European Union, Non Profit, Society
Tagged EU, Johannes Hahn, UNRWA
Eschborn, 28-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Mehr als 360 Läuferinnen und Läufer gingen gestern beim 7. Charity-Lauf der VR Leasing Gruppe in Eschborn zugunsten der Bürgerstiftung Vordertaunus an den Start. Der Lauf musste aufgrund des starken Regens jedoch vorzeitig abgebrochen werden. … Read the full press release
Gesellschaftliches Engagement von Henkel und seinen Mitarbeitern Düsseldorf, 28-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Jeden Tag strömen tausende Flüchtlinge nach Europa und insbesondere nach Deutschland – auf der Suche nach Sicherheit und einem besseren Leben. Allein in Düsseldorf, wo Henkel seinen Firmensitz … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Non Profit, Society
Tagged Hefte, Henkel-Mitarbeiter, Hilfe für Flüchtlinge, Kathrin Menges, Kirsten Sánchez Marín, Schulmaterialien, Stifte, Tornister
BASEL, 25-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Pioneering healthcare models that have a transformational impact on the health of the poorest populations in the world lies at the core of the Novartis Foundation. As world leaders meet in New York to discuss … Read the full press release
A panel of leading historians will discuss Europe’s ‘forgotten union’ at a special event to launch a new book by an Aberdeen academic. ABERDEEN, 25-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Professor Robert Frost’s work, The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union 1385-1569, is the … Read the full press release
Santander International Summer School to be held in Heidelberg 26 September – 4 October 2015 Heidelberg, Germany, 22-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Heidelberg University has invited outstanding doctoral students from Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, India, Austria, Sweden and Spain … Read the full press release
The assumption that rising unemployment, leads to rising crime, is being challenged by new research from the UK universities of Southampton and Sheffield and the French university SciencesPo. Southampton, 22-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Their study has found that the relationship … Read the full press release
In the course of just one week, Ramboll has been trusted with two high-stake projects to help German authorities deal with the rising number of asylum seekers. COPENHAGEN, 22-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — When several hundred thousand refugees are on the … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Germany, Non Profit, Society
Tagged asylum seekers, Rambøll, refugees, rising number of asylum seekers
Espoo, Finland, 21-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Rovio, Earth Day Network and their partners are challenging Angry Birds players of the world to champion the environment and fight climate change in Champions for Earth, a weeklong tournament on Angry Birds Friends. The tournament … Read the full press release
Job preparation foundation course / Leave for volunteering employees / Additional activities by foundations and company clubs Leverkusen, 21-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The Bayer Group is helping refugees in Germany with a large number of measures and activities. Depending on … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Non Profit, Society
Tagged Bayer Group, Georg Müller, Oliver Zühlke, refugees in Germany
Levallois-Perret, France, 16-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Alstom is financing an energy kiosk project in Zambia to meet the needs of people who are not connected to the network. This project is financed by the savings made through the “We share … Read the full press release
Trento, Italy, 15-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Presentato oggi il programma dell’evento che si terrà anche a Trento, come in tante altre città europee, il prossimo 25 settembre nei padiglioni di Trento Fiere in via Briamasco e al Palazzo delle Albere. Circa … Read the full press release
Posted in Italy, Non Profit, Science, Society
On 9 September, Proximus received the MS@Work 2015 Award. The Award was presented by the National Belgian Multiple Sclerosis League as recognition for the positive policy Proximus pursues with regard to employing people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). BRUSSELS, 14-9-2015 — … Read the full press release
Posted in Awards, Belgium, Healthcare, Non Profit, Society
Tagged MS@Work 2015 Award, multiple sclerosis, National Belgian Multiple Sclerosis League, Proximus
Kassel, Germany, 11-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — With its accession to the Global Compact, K+S has underscored its support for the ten principlesin the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. In the case of K+S, these principles are already reflected … Read the full press release
Posted in Environment, Management, Metals and Minerals, Society
Tagged K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Norbert Steiner, UN Global Compact
AF Gruppen (AFG) has been nominated by Boligbygg Oslo KF to build and renovate 91 Omsorg + (assisted living witch caring functions) flats in Trondheimsveien 387 in Oslo. OSLO, 10-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Boligbygg is a municipal undertaking in Oslo … Read the full press release
Posted in Construction, Norway, Society
Tagged AF Gruppen, Boligbygg Oslo KF, build and renovate 91 Omsorg flats in Oslo, Pål Egil Rønn
BRUSSELS, 4-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — A new report released today reveals the dramatic extent of the pharmaceutical industry’s lobbying efforts towards EU decision-makers, with the industry spending an estimated 15 times more than civil society actors working on public health … Read the full press release
New analysis of toxic whale & dolphin meat shows Japan still gambling with human health LONDON, 2-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — As Japan’s annual coastal whale and dolphin hunting season began today with the aim of killing more than 15,000 marine mammals, the … Read the full press release
COLOGNE, 24-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — It is one of the oldest passenger planes in the world still flying. Its many admirers at home and abroad lovingly call it “Tante Ju” (Auntie Ju) or more respectfully, the “Grande Dame of the … Read the full press release
OSLO, 21-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Today the Telemark region of Norway is celebrating the addition of Notodden and Rjukan to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Hydro’s contribution includes the new website industriarven.no, a popularized account of what this world heritage … Read the full press release
WIESBADEN, 21-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In 2014, the number of live births in Germany was 715,000. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 33,000 newborn children, or 4.8%, compared with … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Government, Society
Tagged Destatis, Federal Statistical Office, newborn children in Germany
Toulouse, 21-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Die Airbus Group trauert um den ehemaligen Vorsitzenden der Geschäftsführung der Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH (MBB), Dr.-Ing. Hanns-Arnt Vogels. Der Ingenieur und Manager starb am 11. August 2015 im Alter von 89 Jahren in Düsseldorf. MBB gehört … Read the full press release
Posted in Aviation & Aerospace, France, Germany, Society
Tagged Airbus Group, Dr.-Ing. Hanns-Arnt Vogels, Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH, Tom Enders
Scotland’s squads are banking on success after RBS CEO Ross McEwan dropped in to watch them prepare for their attempts to win the Homeless World Cup. EDINBURGH, 21-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — On Wednesday RBS CEO Ross McEwan was a guest of … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Society, Sports, United Kingdom
Tagged David Duke, RBS, Ross McEwan, Scottish Homeless World Cup, Street Soccer Scotland
The average amount of pocket money paid to kids is £6.20 per week Only 59% of kids are expected to undertake chores in return for their allowance – down from 65% in 2014 Fewer girls (53%) are being asked to … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged average pocket money, Giles Martin, Halifax
Average savings per household has increased four-fold from £36,989 in 1975 to £145,566 Over a third of savings held in deposits, but proportion held in shares continues to fall Sixteen fold increase in value of pensions drives growth in household … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Management, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged Deposit savings, Lloyds Bank, Philip Robinson, UK household savings
SOUTHAMPTON, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Researchers in the United Kingdom (Southampton), Singapore and New Zealand (Auckland) from the EpiGen Global Research Consortium are to trial the use of a combination of nutrients and probiotics before and during pregnancy in a bid … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Healthcare, Science, Society, Technology, United Kingdom
Tagged Auckland UniServices at the University of Auckland, Liggins Institute, Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, MRC LEU, National University Health System (NUHS), National University of Singapore (NUS), Nestlé Research Center, pregnancy, probiotics, Professor Chong Yap Seng, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Thomas Beck, University of Southampton
ZURICH, 31-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Young men are at risk from alcohol consumption. Regulations such as the minimum legal drinking age can protect them. As a national study headed by UZH scientists reveals: The more legal measures for alcohol prevention … Read the full press release
The ESRI and Trinity College Dublin have released a new study examining how well-informed people are about their future pension benefits. Two-thirds of people who are aged over 50 and who are members of pension schemes were unable to provide … Read the full press release
Posted in Education, Ireland, Society
Tagged Alan Barrett, ESRI, pension benefits, Trinity College Dublin
Experience the transformation of a lifetime in just a few days VANCOUVER, Canada, 30-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Renowned personal coach from Canada and leading expert in dissolving limiting beliefs, Jean-Paul Gravel, invites those interested in personal development to join his Emotional … Read the full press release
Posted in France, Healthcare, Management, Netherlands, News, Non Profit, Society
Tagged CANADA, Dr. Olga Kniazeva, Emotional Freedom Retreats, emotional stress, Jean-Paul Gravel, Lage Vuursche, limiting beliefs, personal coach, personal development, physical health, self-imposed barriers, ThroughConversation, Vesseax
TEL AVIV, Israel, 30-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In 1964 Professor Raphael Mechoulam was on a public bus carrying 5 kilos of premium Lebanese hashish in a plastic bag to his laboratory at the Weitzmann Institute in Rehovot. That noticeably fragrant … Read the full press release
Posted in Chemicals, Healthcare, Media, News, Non Profit, Science, Society
Tagged anandamide, biology, cannabinoids, CBD, chemistry, documentary, endocannabinoid system, Israel, medical marijuana, medicinal cannabis, Prescribed Grass, Professor Raphael Mechoulam, Raphael Mechoulam, THC, The Scientist, world’s most misunderstood plant, Zach Klein
Non-communicable diseases like asthma are rising rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa where healthcare systems are ill-prepared to cope1 – Zambia is ranked #1 in the world for mortality due to asthma2 Increasing the medical expertise of local healthcare professionals is a … Read the full press release
Posted in Germany, Healthcare, Marketing, Pharma & Biotech, Society
Tagged Breathe Africa, respiratory health program, Richard Francis, Sandoz, treatment of asthma
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