Florin Zubașcu

Brussels policymakers start circulating ideas to pitch incoming Commissioners, including a new tech fund – but sources warn none have yet been approved

A small EU grant will set ailing institute on road to recovery and open up opportunities for Ukrainian neuroscientists, amid armed conflict and scarce resources

Europe could lose its competitive edge in sustainable food production if the EU does not rethink its rule on genome editing crop plants. Researchers across the EU issue a fresh call for the ban to be lifted

The European Commission’s science and knowledge service says fighting mis- and disinformation is one of the grand challenges of the 21st century

Citizens everywhere must be directly involved in formulating the moonshot missions in Horizon Europe, says European Commission special adviser. The way schoolchildren have pushed the climate emergency to the top of the political agenda shows the appetite for involvement is there  

Through the Central European Science Partnership, four national funding agencies will issue joint research calls and recognise each other’s evaluation procedures

The European Commission has announced the names of the people to lead the five research missions in Horizon Europe

New law will hand oversight of research institutes to a new agency headed by minister of innovation and technology. Researchers say that limits academic freedom; the government says it will modernise the system

Three EU-funded supercomputers in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovenia will attract more big science projects, lure back expatriate researchers and help reduce the innovation gap between east and west