Florin Zubașcu

Selected teams will work on epidemiology, diagnostics, treatments and vaccines

Further delays to EU multiannual budget would slow down research to deal with coronavirus pandemic, EU research commissioner says

The European Commission’s R&D toolbox in the COVID-19 outbreak includes extended deadlines in Horizon 2020, additional funding opportunities for viral research - and less red tape

All universities in Italy, Greece, Denmark, Poland, Ireland and Hungary are closed down, as EU education and research ministers meet online to discuss coordinated response

Universities are relying on digital technologies to keep operating and carry on teaching, while researchers are postponing field work and meetings, as Italian government places entire country under quarantine

Pierre Meulien, director of the Innovative Medicines Initiative wants to see pooling of international research efforts to help curb the spread of COVID-19 and develop treatments for the respiratory infection it causes

The European Commission boosts research funding and selects 17 projects in vaccine development, treatment and diagnostics

Experience from previous health crises shows it takes some time for EU research programmes to produce outcomes

The call is part of a wider strategy announced by the European Commission to contain the outbreak of COVID-19

The money will go to regions and countries with ‘modest’ ranking in EU innovation league tables