EU research

With the UK and Switzerland still not confirmed, research associations have welcomed Israel into the Horizon Europe fold. But some see it as missed opportunity to apply pressure over West Bank settlement

EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet says first demonstration projects under the €1.9B research missions agenda are likely to launch after 2022

Making researchers demonstrate their projects will not harm biodiversity or the environment only adds to bureaucratic overheads, say MEPs. They are threatening to take the Commission to court over the matter

Member states and the European Parliament are set to hash out the terms of the new partnership for the science of measuring later this month

With negotiations stalled, Swiss universities fears hiatus could be at least as damaging as the 2014 – 2016 ban from EU research. National schemes fail to recognise the value of collaboration and won’t fill the gap

Commission selects first big collaborative projects to be funded under Horizon Europe

Investor groups tell EU research commissioner to allocate special funding to female-led venture capital firms in bid to boost female entrepreneurship

A 2010 directive called for replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experiments.  More than 10 years on, MEPs are concerned the rules have had little impact - and want targets and a strategy to bring in alternatives

With the EU preparing stricter rules on research collaborations with China, Hungarians are protesting against the €1.5B campus Fudan University wants to build in Budapest. But for some, putting limits on cooperation will undermine democratic values