Florin Zubașcu

Maria Leptin looks to how Horizon Europe’s successor programme can help bridge the east-west gap in research performance after visiting Croatia and Slovenia

Concentrated diplomatic efforts win the day as Romania is made a ‘founding observer’ in the ELI ERIC consortium. The move is a huge step forwards after a long-running row that seriously held up the largest research infrastructure in eastern Europe

Talks are dragging on, and the government evidently is not optimistic about agreeing association this side of the summer recess

Toomas Asser, recently appointed for a second term at the helm of the University of Tartu, has big plans for changing how knowledge is translated from lab to market

The Research Data Alliance has been working for ten years to build a global infrastructure allowing researchers and innovators to openly share data. Its director Hilary Hanahoe tells Science|Business about plans for the future in a rapidly changing world

Policymakers, companies and civil society on both sides of the Atlantic worry that in the absence of proper regulation, generative artificial intelligence will pose significant threats. The Commission is promoting a voluntary code of conduct to fill the legislative void

After 11 years leading Germany’s biggest applied research organisation, Reimund Neugebauer leaves ‘by mutual agreement.’ Karlsruhe president named to succeed him

EU policymakers renew the push to strengthen scientific cooperation with Japan at a joint meeting of the European Parliament’s science and technology panel and its Japanese counterpart  

The move comes after months of rumours that the Commission wanted to tighten its grip on the €10B start-up fund  

The land of morning calm is the latest country to announce it is getting closer to becoming an associated member of the research programme