Its research units are involved in several autonomous, industry-or European Commission-funded projects, and NATO has shown interest in funding a project with intercontinental partnerships involving its Centre for Environmental and Sea Studies ( CESAM ).

* European Commission-funded project on on Impact Assessment Tools

European business schools adopted business ethics after 1987 commencing with the European Business Ethics Network ( EBEN ).

The Group runs its own think-tank, the European Ideas Network, which brings together opinion-formers from across Europe to discuss issues facing the European Union from a centre-right perspective.

* European Company Network working papers

* European Company Network papers

Finally, observations by the European Fireball Network, a descendant of the original Czech program that recovered Pribram, led to the discovery and orbit calculations for the Neuschwanstein meteorite in 2002.

Maastricht is a member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network.

* EUPRIM-Net: European Primate Network

* Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning ( PASCAL ), a Network of Excellence funded by the European Union, which supports collaboration between experts in Machine Learning, Statistics and Optimization

* OPIB Virtual Renaissance Network activities in digitizing European palimpsests

* The European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism Multi-user academic website providing reliable information about Pentecostalism and networking current interdisciplinary research, hosts a dedicated web search engine for Pentecostal studies

Another European project, called WIDENS ( Wireless Deployable Network System ) proposed a bandwidth reservation approach for mobile wireless multirate adhoc networks.

* ECMA-143-Private Integrated Services Network ( PISN )-Circuit Mode Bearer Services-Inter-Exchange Signalling Procedures and Protocol ( QSIG-BC ), Basic Call, International and European Versions: ISO / IEC 11572, ETSI EN 300 172

* ECMA-165-Private Integrated Services Network ( PISN )-Generic Functional Protocol for the Support of Supplementary Services-Inter-Exchange Signalling Procedures and Protocol ( QSIG-GF ), International and European Versions: ISO / IEC 11582, ETSI ETS 300 239

* ECMA-164-Private Integrated Services Network ( PISN )-Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol-Name Identification Supplementary Services ( QSIG-NA ), International and European Versions: ISO / IEC 13868, ETSI ETS 300 238

* ECMA-174-Private Integrated Services Network ( PISN )-Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol-Call Diversion Supplementary Services ( QSIG-CF ), International and European Versions: ISO / IEC 13873, ETSI ETS 300 257

* ECMA-178-Private Integrated Services Network ( PISN )-Inter-Exchange Signalling Protocol-Call Transfer Supplementary Service ( QSIG-CT ), International and European Versions: ISO / IEC 13869, ETSI ETS 300 261

The Network of Excellence " Sustainable Development in a Diverse World ", sponsored by the European Union, integrates multidisciplinary capacities and interprets cultural diversity as a key element of a new strategy for sustainable development.

* CLIOH-WORLD CLIOH-WORLD: European Erasmus Network about researching, teaching and learning world history

" Worms is the only German member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network.

* CLIOH-WORLD CLIOH-WORLD: Network of Universities supported by the European Commission ( LLP-Erasmus ) for the researching, teaching and learning of the history of the EU, including History of EU Integration, EU-Turkey dialogue, and linking to world history.

Another large park and also part of the European Garden Heritage Network is the Karlsaue along the Fulda River.

Although no universally accepted definition of ' fair trade ' exists, Fairtrade labeling organizations most commonly refer to a definition developed by FINE, an informal association of four international fair trade networks ( Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International, World Fair Trade Organization ( WFTO ), Network of European Worldshops and European Fair Trade Association ( EFTA )):

The European Foundation for Quality Management's EFQM Excellence Model supports an award scheme similar to the Baldrige Award for European companies.

It is a German Excellence University, as well as a founding member of the League of European Research Universities and the Coimbra Group.

The European Quality Award is now referred to as the EFQM Excellence Award.

In September 2006, Carleton was designated a European Union Centre of Excellence by the European Commission in Brussels, and was the first university to offer a BA ( Honours ) in European and Russian Studies and MA in European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.

The university is home to a number of internationally renowned research centres and schools, including the Birmingham Business School, the oldest business school in England ( which is accredited by both AMBA and EQUIS ), the University of Birmingham Medical School, which produces more medical doctors than any other university in Britain, the International Development Department, the Institute of Local Government Studies, the Centre of West African Studies, the European Research Institute, the Centre of Excellence for Research in Computational Intelligence and Applications and the Shakespeare Institute.

The EFQM Excellence Model is a non-prescriptive framework for organizational management systems, promoted by EFQM ( formerly known as the European Foundation for Quality Management ) and designed for helping organizations in their drive towards being more competitive.

The Excellence Group has 56 members, which is 1. 3 percent of the approximately 4, 500 European institutions of higher education.

In 2007 it was awarded the status of European Destination of Excellence by the European Commission at a ceremony in Portugal and is Ireland's first recipient of this prestigious title.

The École normale supérieure cooperates in Atomium Culture, the first Permanent Platform for European Excellence that brings together some of Europe's leading universities, newspapers and businesses.

British educational institutions which honor Monnet include the Jean Monet Centre of Excellence at King's College London, the East Midlands Euro-Centre at Loughborough University, the European Research Institute at the University of Bath, the Jean Monnet Centre at the University of Birmingham, the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at Cambridge, the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellenceat the University of Essex, the Centre for European Union Studies at the University of Hull, the Kent Centre for Europe at the University of Kent, the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, a partnership between the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford, the Jean Monnet Centre at Newcastle University and the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies at the University of Wales.

The movement toward European unity has been expressed in two currents: federalism and functionalism, one looking to the constitution of a United States of Europe, the other building on wartime precedents of practical cooperation for the solution of specific problems.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

The European customs on which international law was based were to become, by force and fiat, the customs that others were to accept as law if they were to join this community as sovereign states.

Hall, for example, was quite explicit on this point when he said states outside European civilization must formally enter into the circle of law-governed countries.

One effect of the proposal, which puts a premium on population instead of economic strength, as in the past, would be to take jobs from European nations and give more to such countries as India.

This is similar to the notion of chivalry, but unlike that European concept, in i ' thar attention is focused on everything in existence.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

The Atari 7800 version was a launch title and featured co-operative play, it was the built in game on the European Atari 7800 release.

The Sea of Marmara forms a connection between the Black and Aegean Seas through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, and separates Anatolia from Thrace on the European mainland.

Later on, when he became king in 1509, Henry VIII is supposed to have commissioned an English translation of a Life of Henry V so that he could emulate him, on the grounds that he thought that launching a campaign against France would help him to impose himself on the European stage.

* CSIC, Spain A Government of Spain website for European publications on tree nuts including almonds

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

European Ideologies: A Survey of 20th Century Political Ideas ( 1948 ) pp 391 – 481 online edition, on Russia and Bulgaria

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

Cabot is believed the first Western European on the mainland.

His work in Early Modern European History focuses on the history of education, the history of the book and the history of reading.

Across Abydos lies Sestus on the European side, marking one of the narrowest points of the Dardanelles, slightly more than a nautical mile broad ( the narrrowest point is at Çanakkale ).

Most recently in 2011, the Charlemagne Award was conferred on Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank.

Modern-day Arab telephone keypad with two forms of Arabic numerals: Western Arabic / European numerals on the left and Eastern Arabic numerals on the right