WRITTEN QUESTION E-3792/03 by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission. Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino under the Tempus III programme.
Date: 2003-12-11
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EU financing, EU programme, Marches, cooperation policy, higher education

27.3.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

C 78 E/645

(2004/C 78 E/0685)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3792/03

by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission

(11 December 2003)

Subject: Update on funding for the municipality of Pesaro-Urbino under the Tempus III programme

In reply to my earlier question E-1168/03 (1) asking whether the municipality of Pesaro had submitted
projects and obtained funding under the Tempus III programme, the Commission said on 8 March 2003
that no projects had been submitted.

Is the Commission aware of whether, since that date, the municipality has submitted any projects, secured
funding and made use of any funds granted?

(1) OJ C 242 E, 9.10.2003, p. 184.

Answer given by Mrs Reding on behalf of the Commission

(29 January 2004)

It should be noted that municipalities are not eligible for Tempus funding. However, since March 2003,
there have been several calls for proposals under the Tempus programme, the most recent being that of
15 December 2003. In response to these calls, the university of Urbino (Università degli studi di Urbino)
submitted a proposal for a project involving universities in Spain, Morocco and Malta. The selection
procedure has begun and the final decision will be taken in June 2004 to allow projects to get under way
during the 2004/2005 academic year.

Projects funded under the Tempus programme generally involve several universities,
from both EU
countries and partner countries. These projects relate to the development and reform of higher education
in those countries which are the final recipients of Community funding.

(2004/C 78 E/0686)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3811/03

by Cristiana Muscardini (UEN) to the Commission

(11 December 2003)

Subject: The spread of androgenetic alopecia

According to research carried out by the Dermatology Department of California University in San
Francisco 15 % of adolescents under 17 are losing their hair, the average age of onset being 14 for girls
and 16 for boys. The Dermatology Faculty of Bologna University carried out a four-year study on children
aged 6 to 10 who showed signs of baldness. All of them had parents suffering from androgenetic alopecia.
But what are the possible causes of premature baldness? The ‘Journal of the American Academy of
Dermatology’ has published the findings of research carried out by the dermatologist Antonella Tosti at
Bologna University, which summarise the causes of the phenomena: an early onset of adrenarche, the
hormonal process which starts two or three years before puberty, a high glycaemic diet, which may speed
up the onset of the pre-pubertal phase, the use of cosmetic products containing estrogens and placenta and
contamination of food with estrogen hormones.

In view of the risks to young people of this pathology (cid:1) since very early baldness may be a warning of
other dysfunctions (cid:1) can the Commission say:

(cid:1) whether it is aware of the problem;

(cid:1) whether it does not consider that governments should be made aware of this disease and the need to
step up controls on cosmetic products and foodstuffs likely to contain placenta and/or estrogen
hormones?