Florin Zubașcu

Decision on how to organise synergies between EU’s research pot and other funding streams to be kicked down the road for the Romanian presidency to settle

More than 20 per cent of 2018 research and innovation budget is lost as research ministry fails to launch calls

A long-debated research and education reform aims to pave the way for universities to become international R&D players

EU’s poorest country is the exemplar for why national systems need fixing before there is any preferential treatment in Horizon Europe. As things stand, more funding for R&D in Romania would be ‘money thrown out of the window’

Committee of the Regions throws some weight behind the proposal to use quotas to bridge the west - east research and innovation gap under Horizon Europe

Amendment seeking to bridge west – east divide through regional quotas for research funding is roundly rejected. Member states should increase national R&D spending instead

Greater cooperation is needed to address global challenges, but EU bureaucracy and complex rules are undermining scientific partnerships. So will Horizon Europe be more – or less – open to the world?

University heads disagree with Romanian MEP’s proposal that geographic evaluation criteria in the EU 2021 – 2027 research programme could fix EU’s research innovation divide. Excellence is what counts, they say

Eye of the beholder: When it comes to deciding how open research data should be, industry and academia do not have the same vision