Florin Zubașcu

The announcement comes a few weeks after New Zealand and the European Commission concluded informal talks on association

Margrethe Vestager said it would be ‘counterproductive’ to reduce EU funding for cutting edge research

Additional ‘flexibility’ is needed in the multiannual budget to allow the EU to make targeted investments in new energy and defence technologies. There is a suggestion funding could be diverted from agriculture and cohesion and towards such ‘strategic autonomy’ projects

Two funding experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology travelled to Ukraine in a personal capacity to learn about the needs of the research system. Targeted aid would have an immediate impact in getting institutions in the west of the country back on their feet, they say

The country is set to triple its participation in Horizon Europe but further upgrades to the research and innovation system are needed to boost its overall performance

As geopolitical shocks reverberate through Europe, policymakers place energy security and strategic autonomy at the top of the research agenda

Commissioner Mariya Gabriel looks to R&I to support long-term recovery, as government officials in Ukraine estimate 15% of research and higher education institutions have been damaged by Russian bombs

Research infrastructures are worried about the rising cost of running large scientific experiments and are looking for help with paying sky-high electricity bills. One lab has seen a 60% increase in its tariff this year

An economic crisis fuelled by war, energy shortages and inflation looks likely to put further strain on national R&D budgets

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