Martin Greenacre

The EU biotech and biomanufacturing initiative due to be published later this month is an opportunity to take urgent and immediate action to support the scale up of the sector

The Commission president set out her vision for a new EU military-industrial-academic complex in a speech to MEPs on Wednesday

The public-private partnership will support research and development of advanced materials, which the Commission says are crucial to the EU’s competitiveness

Stepping up investment in defence was on the agenda as EIB president Nadia Calviño met European finance ministers

The office will oversee compliance with the AI Act and foster development of trustworthy artificial intelligence systems

The financial sustainability of the first EIT knowledge and innovation communities is proof the model works, says EIT director Martin Kern, after its future is called into question

At an informal meeting in Belgium, EU research ministers and research commissioner Iliana Ivanova agreed on the need to safeguard research funding, after €2.1 billion was cut from Horizon Europe

The defence sector has been slow to embrace sustainability, but that is beginning to change, as it becomes clear climate change will shape future conflicts

The STEP initiative to boost investment in strategic technologies has suffered a blow as member states refuse to hand over fresh funding, but the proposal lacked ambition from the beginning

If FP10 is opened up to defence and dual use research, the rest of the budget must be ringfenced, the annual Science|Business conference heard on Tuesday