Éanna Kelly

A broad package of initiatives includes €50M for a pilot of a new European Cybersecurity Research and Competence Centre to train specialists and an EU-wide cyber security certification scheme

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn recruited to RAND Europe advisory board

Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger pleads with governments to reverse proposed €500M cut to next year’s Horizon 2020 budget next year saying, “If you are not prepared to invest in 2018, you will have to invest more in 2019 and 2020”

With its teaching licence revoked and the forced removal from its premises, the European University in St Petersburg is on life support. “We have lost virtually everything,” says one of its professors

Ex-MEP Vicky Ford joins UK Parliament science committee following storm over all-male line-up

The centrepiece of Framework Programme 9 is to be ten moonshot projects that inspire the public and connect people to EU R&D. Researchers are starting to pitch in with their ideas

The UK wants a close relationship with EU science after Brexit. But there is much work to do if the UK government is to succeed in forging a closer partnership with the EU than exists with any other non-EU member

Scientists need to call their governments and complain, Carlos Moedas said as he vowed to make his case to ministers of science and finance

A government position paper avoids mention of money and the hard line stance on immigration is unchanged, but the UK aims to stay part of EU R&D - in a closer partnership than any of the 16 associated countries