Manfred Weber says he favours reliance on new technology over bans and punishments for carbon emitters, as he and lead candidates from five other pan-EU party groups make final pitch to voters

New report lays out rising cost of taking out bundled science journal subscriptions with the five top publishers

Pioneer of nanomedicine will steer the ERC’s scientific council during the transition to Horizon Europe

German medtech company Dräger will use the money to apply new secure standard for connecting point of care medical devices to hospital computer systems

A total of 75 successful applicants, divided equally among five themes, will be responsible for designing and managing the missions

Geochemist Douglas Connelly tells Science|Business how his project hopes to prove sub-sea carbon sequestration is a safe and effective tool for tackling global warming

He’s spent five years as vice chairman of the European Parliament’s ITRE committee, overseeing Horizon 2020, but as he bows out, retiring MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel, tells Science|Business why he doesn’t believe in the R&D programme

Maria da Graça Carvalho will stand on her record in the European Parliament, and is calling for more ambition on climate change. ‘I know research policy and how to solve problems,’ she tells Science|Business

The academy says it ‘went into great lengths’ to satisfy government demands on how the research institutes are organised

The two are exploring joint research in artificial intelligence and their respective ‘moonshot’ programmes. The EU would like Japan to take part in Horizon Europe, but for Japan, more clarity is needed on the terms of associate membership