Budget drawn up in shadow of the pandemic and before Russia invaded Ukraine does not reflect Europe’s military needs and new security priorities  

Researchers don’t have the money, infrastructure or coordination of standards to get to grips with an unregulated information environment. A new, centralised and properly resourced research institute is needed

Four years after the government passed the ‘Constitution for Science’, academics continue to debate whether the reforms are having the intended impact

While the government-mandated transfer of research institutes was found not to infringe scientific freedom, it did breach the property rights of the Academy of Sciences. For researchers, that is hampering the day-to-day operation of the institutes

UK university opens research institute in Wroclaw to give it a foothold in mainland Europe and reopen access to EU research funding

The partnership aims to streamline EU funding and encourage data sharing to give a much-needed boost to clean hydrogen

Forum is to highlight the extent of the threat by conducting an annual analysis of the limitations put on academics and scientists, and will debate new policies and laws aimed at safeguarding academic freedom in the EU

The EU frontier research fund is to announce changes in how it assesses proposals, taking a broader view of the potential impact and the contribution to society, ERC president Maria Leptin tells MEPs

A few programmes are still missing, but the detailed draft plans for research calls over the next two years are now live

An accelerator for digital health companies involving ten regions across Europe is the first project to be funded through the Interregional Innovation Investment programme. Now stakeholders are looking for some fine tuning in how the scheme operates