Goda Naujokaitytė

The focus will be on post COVID-19 recovery, with leaked draft work programme indicating that in 2021 researchers can expect six calls for proposals on topics ranging from mental health to improving healthcare systems

Leaked draft indicates there will be no open calls for synergy and proof of concept grants this year. About 980 projects will be funded, down from 1,213 in 2020

As its successor programme is finalised and the east-west innovation gap persists, the European Court of Auditors is looking to see what - if anything - the €1B spent on Widening from 2014 - 2020 has delivered  

Leaked draft – dating from January - envisages the European Innovation Council handing out €602M to start ups and €507 million for targeted calls addressing specific areas of research in the next 11 months

As the European Innovation Council emerges from pilot mode, SMEs and researchers will be in line for a new type of funding for translating EU-funded research into products and more top-down, targeted calls

European Institute of Innovation and Technology will have more financial flexibility - but with that will come more oversight

Leaked draft work programme points to an unhealthy balance between fundamental biology and applied research

The documents give researchers detailed clues to what kind of projects will be funded in the €95.5B programme

Parliament welcomes the start of the first phase of the project to marry form and function with sustainability, but asks how the Commission plans to fund it