The minister for the polar regions, Mark Simmonds, said: "A new state-of-the-art polar research flagship will extend the UK's capability and reach in polar waters.
The concept, objectives and work proposed by the Guardian Angels for Smarter Life FET Flagship Pilot are designed to result in visionary, science driven, goal-oriented, large-scale, multidisciplinary research flagship proposal, nucleated from ICT future and emerging technologies.
"+ERS – Plus Energy Network Reininghaus Süd" is an integrative part of the Building of Tomorrow research flagship project "Energy City Graz-Reininghaus (ECR), which is an important part of the greater urban development framework of the City of Graz.
The flagship research and innovation programme of the European Commission, Horizon 2020, is the eighth in a series spanning the last four decades.
In the past, it was primarily SLAC scientists who led the research on the flagship SLAC machines.
Among participating countries in Horizon 2020, the EU's flagship research programme, the UK holds the biggest share of signed grant agreements.
Paul M. Horn, the senior vice president who runs all of I.B.M. Research from its flagship laboratory in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., figures that he has his charges in the right frame of mind to preserve that reputation.
"It looks better from 1,000 ft," says Sir Paul Nurse, the jovial Nobel prize-winning director of the country's new flagship research centre, the largest such hub in Europe, now charged with furthering our understanding of the fundamental biology of human health.
Professor Ian Chapman, the newly appointed chief executive of the UK nuclear fusion programme at the Culham centre in Oxfordshire, which hosts the EU's flagship research project called the Joint European Torus – the largest magnetic fusion experiment in the world – said that, while the commission had been "positive" in talks about the medium term, there was a lack of clarity over the future.
"I mean, Columbia, you should want to solve the problem, so you don't keep having to solve the problem, you know what I mean?" The question now is whether Columbia values SHIFT as a flagship research project or as a practical guide to institutional change.
University officials hope that support from Mr. Simons and others will jump-start efforts to turn Stony Brook, one of SUNY's flagship research institutions, into a world-class one and will seed what could one day become an endowment comparable to those at some large private universities.
