Malformed Acronym Syndrome (MAD)
EUROPEAN Union funding for science projects demands, understandably enough, that applicants put together a collaboration involving more than one member state. Feedback has not actually seen the additional rule that you must assemble a cute and vaguely acronymic name for your collaboration, but we deduce that it must exist somewhere in the regulations for so-called Sixth Framework funding.
For example, Â鶹´«Ã½’s Brussels bureau forwards the announcement that “the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, and five small and medium enterprises have initiated [a] research project entitled the ‘Role of Ubiquitin and…
