Europe

PlanetLab Europe is the European portion of the publicly available PlanetLab testbed.
PlanetLab is a group of computers available as a testbed for computer networking and distributed systems research. It was established in 2002. As of March 2009, PlanetLab was composed of 913 nodes at 460 sites worldwide. Each research project has a "slice" or virtual machine access to a subset of the nodes.

Reasoning on the Web with Rules and Semantics

european media search and analysis engine

Access to 123327 full-text research theses from 210 Universities sourced from 16 European countries

The European Land-Robot Trial"

The E-Culture project is a cooperation of Digital Heritage Netherlands (DEN), the Institute Collection Netherlands (ICN), the Free University, the University of Amsterdam, and the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).

JARED DIAMOND, a researcher at UCLA, has been doing fieldwork in New Guinea for over 25 years. New Guinea is home to some of the last hunter-gatherers in the world. A long time ago, one of his New Guinea friends asked Diamond why white people had so much and New Guineans had so little.
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Our original question was, why did Europeans conquer the world? The answer is, because they happened to live on the Eurasian continent, so they were lucky enough to start agriculture earlier than any other place on earth. Just by luck, they were at the right latitude with the right combination of available animals and plants that could be domesticated. And with a head start of thousands of years, their technology was more advanced. And because of their close association with their domesticated animals, they carried many diseases to which they had resistance but people from other continents did not. Because of their head start, Europeans possessed guns, germs, and steel and they conquered the world with them.