29/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Double anniversary celebrations for Marie-Curie. More than 300 researchers met in Warsaw, Poland, from Sunday 25 to Tuesday 27 September 2011 for a conference celebrating 100 years since the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Marie Sklodowska-Curie, and 15 years of the Marie Curie Programme (named after the French nuclear physicist, who hailed from Poland). EU Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou, who attended the conference, said that the celebrations provided the opportunity to examine the great achievements of the Marie Curie Programme run by the European Commission. Since its creation in 1996, it has financed the training, mobility and skills development of more than 50,000 researchers. At the conference, researchers discussed the role of science in society and how to promote science to help achieve EU programmes like “Horizon 2020”. (JK/transl.fl)