The Commission’s former regional development chief moves over to head the research directorate, amid hopes his experience in Cohesion policy will be applied to bridge east-west disparities in research and innovation
EU ministers talk about cooperation on data sharing and open science publishing at the kick off meeting for research and innovation policy under Sweden’s six-month EU presidency. Here’s what to expect in the coming months
They’re vital in translating research to market, but there is no common view of what technology infrastructures are. Christian Ehler MEP tells a Science|Business conference he wants the Commission to agree a definition as the basis of future policy
Romina Pourmokhtari calls for more research into behaviour change, resource efficiency and nature-positive food production. But experts assessing the future disagree over whether technology can do enough to prevent a climate disaster
EU Commission wants to see universities in different member states award joint degrees. Universities and national authorities will now run trials to chart how to make this happen
Success rates are up, UK and Swiss participation down, and Widening countries edge up to the EU 27 average. And on the third anniversary of Brexit, the UK’s five top universities, usually among the biggest winners of EU R&D funding, are feeling the pinch
EU research commissioner Mariya Gabriel hopes to open negotiations with Japan and South Korea, and foresees Canada will be on board the EU’s €95.5B research programme in the first half of the year
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