Florin Zubașcu

The Startup Europe Partnership and the European Digital Forum gather global entrepreneurs, universities and financial institutions, and aim to close the gap between Europe and Silicon Valley

Microsoft opened the doors of a new training centre in Brussels, which it says will both help to bridge the ICT skills gap reduce youth employment in Europe

As of January 2014, the ERC has three Vice-Presidents instead of two. Spanish psychologist, Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, joins the two existing Vice-Presidents, Professors Pavel Exner and Carl-Henrik Heldin

The European Research Council announced the first 312 winners of the Consolidator Grant competition. This new funding will allow researchers that are doing groundbreaking work to consolidate their scientific careers and to establish their own research teams.

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, new President of the ERC , tells Science|Business he is charting a ‘political’ course – to help boost science in Europe’s weaker regions, and to promote young scientists