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European Research Council grantees from Ukraine add their voices to calls for direct action. They say they need peace before they can return to labs and desks

There’s €632 million for mid-career researchers but 67 awardees based in the UK and Switzerland may have to relocate to Horizon Europe countries to get the ERC-tagged funding

As one of the seven founders of the ITER fusion experiment conceived during the Cold War, Russia cannot be excluded from the project. But Europe may move to limit its participation

In its latest statement the umbrella body Universities UK says it does not support ‘blanket academic boycotts’. However, some universities are acting unilaterally to end ties with Russia, while across the Channel at least 16 EU countries have frozen partnerships

Famed particle-physics lab in Geneva joins growing movement to ban Russia from new research collaborations as Ukraine war intensifies

Universities in Central and Eastern Europe have already begun helping students, academics and researchers affected by the war – but the scale of the problem is still unknown

As movement to suspend western research ties to Russia gathers speed, the Dutch and Slovenian governments, and a European academic group, announce sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine

They were promised more money, but in the first year of the revamped EU student mobility scheme universities got less - leaving students facing uncertainties over their grants. Some say such hiccups are to be expected when new rules are kicking in

As ESA takes action, there are calls for the Commission to stop any more research funds flowing to Russia. Researchers there picked up €14M in the seven years of the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme, with some of these projects running until 2026

In the latest move to sanction Russia over the war in Ukraine, Lithuania is set to propose cutting it off from the Bologna process for education reform