Goda Naujokaitytė

Now member states need to give the final green light, allowing nine public-private partnership in digital, health and climate to get off the ground

First €1 million call is open and looking for projects that integrate sustainability, aesthetics and social inclusion

EU research chief Jean-Eric Paquet says first demonstration projects under the €1.9B research missions agenda are likely to launch after 2022

Experts say research is an important diplomatic tool in the region amid growing tensions with Russia and China

Europe’s most innovative clusters compete with the best in the world, but other regions are not even ‘also rans’ Now the Commission is making moves to level up and drive ‘innovation cohesion’ across the EU

Small companies fulfil R&D needs in the EU space sector but have a hard time scaling up. They’re calling on policymakers to improve support – and say without it, the EU risks losing talent to the US

After a year of silence, the European Commission finally sets out objectives for each of five pan-EU missions - a new Horizon Europe instrument marrying research and policy to address ‘Grand Challenges’ like climate change and loss of biodiversity

Negotiations on ten Horizon Europe public private ventures in health, climate and digital technologies are complete. EU Council expected to seal the deals in November

Making researchers demonstrate their projects will not harm biodiversity or the environment only adds to bureaucratic overheads, say MEPs. They are threatening to take the Commission to court over the matter

Europe leads in some aspects of AI research, but new business models and investment in scaling up is needed to bring the technology to market