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European robin

European robin (Erithacus rubecula), also called robin redbreast: a small territorial Old World flycatcher with an orange breast, singing year-round, breeding across Europe, and navigating by a cryptochrome-based magnetic compass.

European Robotic Arm

The European Robotic Arm is an ESA-built robotic arm on the Russian segment of the International Space Station, launched in 2021 and able to walk hand-over-hand.

European Robotics Forum

The European Robotics Forum (ERF) is the annual meeting of the European robotics community, organized by euRobotics aisbl and held in a different European city each year since 2010.

European route E18

European route E18 is an international E-road running from Craigavon in Northern Ireland via Belfast, Stranraer, and Newcastle to Scandinavia, linking Oslo and Stockholm and continuing to the Russian border in Finland.

European route E30

European route E30 is a west–east road of the international E-road network, running from Cork in Ireland through London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Minsk to Moscow.

European route E4

European route E4, or Europaväg 4, is a 1,590 km road through Sweden from Helsingborg via Stockholm to Haparanda and Tornio on the Finnish border, often called Sweden's lifeline.

European route E6

European route E6 is a 3,120 km north–south road from Trelleborg in southern Sweden to Kirkenes in northeastern Norway, linking the Oslo and Gothenburg regions.

European Rover Challenge

The European Rover Challenge is an annual international space and robotics competition held in Poland, first held in 2014, where student teams operate Mars rovers on simulated Martian terrain.

European Rugby Champions Cup

European Rugby Champions Cup (Investec Champions Cup), formerly Heineken Cup: EPCR's top European club rugby union competition since 1995/96; 24 clubs from Premiership, Top 14, and URC; Stade Toulousain leads with six titles.

European Russia

European Russia (Европейская Россия) is the western part of Russia in Europe, east of the Ural Mountains. About 80% of Russians live there, though its density is five times below the EU's.

European Science Foundation

European Science Foundation (ESF): non-profit, non-governmental science-management association founded 1974, headquartered in Strasbourg. Runs research assessment and grant evaluation with 11,000+ expert reviewers and hosts the CoARA secretariat.

European science in the Middle Ages

European science in the Middle Ages, also called science in medieval Western Europe, was the natural knowledge studied in Latin Christendom between roughly the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

European seabass

European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax; Fr Bar européen, Es Lubina) is a euryhaline coastal fish of the northeast Atlantic to Black Sea, the first non-salmonid marine species farmed in Europe and a major Mediterranean aquaculture and recreational fishery species.

European Securities and Markets Authority

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is the European Union agency supervising securities and capital markets, based in Paris and directly overseeing credit rating agencies, trade repositories, and benchmarks.

European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) is a joint venture led by TSMC with Bosch, Infineon, and NXP, formed in 2023 to build a €10 billion chip fab in Dresden, Germany.

European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH

European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) GmbH is a joint venture of TSMC (70 percent), Bosch, Infineon, and NXP building a Dresden semiconductor fab, with production targeted for 2028.

European Service Module

The European Service Module (ESM) is the ESA-built service component of NASA's Orion spacecraft, supplying propulsion, power, and life support as Europe's principal contribution to the Artemis program.

European Short Track Speed Skating Championships

European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, annual ISU short track title event for European skaters, first held Malmö 1997. Single distances format: 500m, 1000m, 1500m plus relays; Netherlands dominate recent editions.

European single market

The European single market, also called the internal market, is the EU area where goods, services, capital, and people move freely across borders, in force since 1 January 1993.

European Social Survey

The European Social Survey (ESS) is a biennial cross-national survey measuring attitudes, beliefs, and behavior in European countries, founded in 2001 and offering its data free of charge.

European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

ESPEN, the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, is a Luxembourg-registered non-profit founded in 1980 that publishes Clinical Nutrition guidelines, position papers, and the annual ESPEN Congress.

European Society for Evolutionary Biology

European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), founded 28 August 1987 in Basel; academic society of over 1,500 evolutionary biologists, publisher of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology and Evolution Letters, organizer of a biennial congress, ANBI-registered in the Netherlands.

European Society for Medical Oncology

European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), founded 1975 by Georges Mathé and Maurice Schneider, Swiss-registered non-profit in Lugano; runs ESMO Congress, clinical guidelines, and the ESMO-MCBS clinical benefit scale.

European Society of Cardiology

European Society of Cardiology (ESC), founded 2 September 1950, is a not-for-profit society of 62,000+ cardiology professionals known for ESC Congress, ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines, and the European Heart Journal.

European Society of Cardiology Distinguished Fellow designation

The European Society of Cardiology Distinguished Fellow designation is the honorary title Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC), introduced in 1988 and now held by over 4,300 professionals.

European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE), founded in Brussels in 1964, is a professional society of 49 member societies promoting quality in gastrointestinal endoscopy through guidelines and education.

European Society of Surgical Oncology

The European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) is a professional society founded in 1981 and based in Brussels, representing over 20,000 cancer surgeons across Europe and worldwide.

European Solar Telescope

The European Solar Telescope is a planned 4.2-meter solar telescope at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, Spain, promoted by 26 European research institutions.

European Solidarity (Європейська Солідарність)

European Solidarity (Європейська Солідарність) is Petro Poroshenko's Ukrainian center-right, pro-EU opposition party, renamed in May 2019; it won 8.10% and 25 seats in 2019 after 132 seats in 2014.

European Southern Observatory

The European Southern Observatory, founded in 1962, is an intergovernmental organization of 16 European states that builds and operates observatories in Chile, including the Very Large Telescope.