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
The EU has put in billions of euros to boost manufacturing and research and build an independent battery supply. Now, it’s looking to train 800,000 workers to lead the market surge
As Ukraine calls on world to ‘fully isolate Russia by all means’, Germany is to block research links. Meanwhile EU policymakers are weighing whether to kick Russia out of European science organisations
As countries around the world scramble to retain and attract research talent, Spanish ministers vote through reforms that aim to improve research careers and guarantee increased public funding for research
European Parliament votes through a comprehensive report on cancer, setting out demands for the EU to do more to prevent, fight and research the disease that accounts for a fifth of all deaths in Europe
A year after announcing its ambition to ensure secure internet connections from space, the European Commission says it will provide industry with €2.4B to spur development of Europe’s own ultra-secure quantum-encrypted broadband system to do this
Reacting to the Science|Business white paper assessing the first year of Horizon Europe, Jean-Eric Paquet confirmed the Commission is working on finetuning the next set of calls for 2023 and 2024
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