Florin Zubașcu

European Court of Auditors says despite good design, moves to reduce the east-west research and innovation gap in Horizon 2020 cannot make up for a lack of reforms and investment in lagging member states

Draft conclusions due to be adopted Friday, signal that ministers will put their weight behind Commission’s push for reforms. But they will emphasise the need to reflect the diversity of research systems across member states

Research heavyweights in central and eastern Europe met last week to consider how to improve their performance in EU research funding programmes. At present most applicants from the region are rejected at the first stage of evaluation

Calls for applications cover topics such as underwater warfare, advanced radar technologies, adaptive camouflage and defence medical response

Draft copy of the agreement seen by Science|Business sets out plan to cut down on the use of a narrow set of journal and publication metrics

To turn things around, the Commission is considering more money for the European Defence Fund, a hub for defence innovation, new financing instruments for defence SMEs and a bigger role for the European Investment Bank

The European Commission wants research institutions to reduce their reliance on journal metrics and reward researchers according to the quality of their work, not by the number of citations

In hour-long videoconference, US universities vow to help counterparts in Ukraine with reconstruction and in enabling them to play a wider role in repairing the war-torn economy

In a speech at the closing ceremony of the Conference on the Future of Europe, the French president praised the EU’s scientific prowess, and called for treaty changes

Funding for researchers from Ukraine to study abroad is part of a €562M increase for Horizon Europe this year