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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

Luxembourger Marc Lemaître will lead the Commission’s research directorate as EU’s €95.5 billion research framework approaches key milestones

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

As they enter another year of capacity building, EU’s goal-driven research programmes grapple with fragmented regional and national political systems

As the elite of politics and business convene in Davos to talk about geopolitical rifts, resilience and pandemics, heads of EU research Mariya Gabriel and Maria Leptin make pleas for continued investment in basic science

A Net-Zero Industry Act and a European Sovereignty Fund aim to attract much needed investment. But research leaders insist Horizon Europe money must not be diverted into another ‘political pet project’

Ensuring Europe can innovate and grow its companies in the face of global competition will be one of the priorities of Sweden’s six-month reign of the EU

Without action, the quality of research could decline, research commissioner Mariya Gabriel is told as she announces pilot to be launched in 2024 in partnership with member states and industry