Nicholas Wallace

Autonomous vehicles, 6G mobile and an expansion of the Innovative Medicines Initiative to take in medical devices, diagnostics, vaccines and biopharmaceuticals are on the list of public-private partnerships. Six existing partnerships march on, with fresh objectives

Virtually all current joint undertakings are slated to continue in some form, alongside new partnerships on driverless cars, space, and clean steel

A rough draft of an implementation plan for Horizon Europe puts forward 18 suggested topics for EU research partnerships

En Marche candidate Pierre Karleskind wants to join the European Parliament’s research committee so he can champion R&D into sustainable use of marine resources, as a driver for economic growth

Pioneer of nanomedicine will steer the ERC’s scientific council during the transition to Horizon Europe

German medtech company Dräger will use the money to apply new secure standard for connecting point of care medical devices to hospital computer systems

A total of 75 successful applicants, divided equally among five themes, will be responsible for designing and managing the missions

He’s spent five years as vice chairman of the European Parliament’s ITRE committee, overseeing Horizon 2020, but as he bows out, retiring MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel, tells Science|Business why he doesn’t believe in the R&D programme

The final budget is not yet agreed, but shadow committee has begun work on bringing the outline agreement on the programme to life

A €1.7 billion microelectronics project – and a big battery project in development – are first of a new crop of industrial partnerships. Vestager offers guidelines for EU clearance