Daniel Zajfman, head of the Weizmann Institute, one of Israel’s leading research universities, explains his formula for promoting excellence. Fund researchers and give them full independence and control over the direction of their work, he says

Experts warn five-day outage is a big ‘reputational hit’ to the multi-billion-euro project

Horizon 2020-funded call will go to up to four networks of AI researchers from leading institutions

Proposed strategy for European Institute of Innovation and Technology will see it aligned with Horizon Europe’s strategic planning process. A new Knowledge and Innovation Community will be set up to support the creative industries

Policy makers don’t have to take my advice, but science and evidence ought to underpin the work of government, says Patrick Vallance

‘Hope is strengthened’, says physicist Tommaso Calarco, one of the driving forces behind the EU’s €1B Quantum flagship. Start-ups are beginning ‘to sprout like mushrooms’

EU competition policy is holding the continent back, Lithuania’s former prime minister Andrius Kubilius, now an MEP and sitting on the European Parliament’s Industry, Research and Energy committee, tells Science|Business

Adina-Ioana Vălean elected chair of committee on Industry, Research, and Energy, while ECR’s Zdzisław Krasnodębski becomes first vice-chair among four

Citizens everywhere must be directly involved in formulating the moonshot missions in Horizon Europe, says European Commission special adviser. The way schoolchildren have pushed the climate emergency to the top of the political agenda shows the appetite for involvement is there  

European Commission calls on researchers to overcome the problems of pooling patient scans, to provide data around which to develop image recognition systems, and speed up cancer diagnoses