Nicholas Wallace

There is horse trading ahead, but Bert De Colvenaer, head of the EU’s €5B electronics and systems partnership is pleased to see the successor project taking shape. Industry wants a bigger budget and for larger companies to continue to get public funding

An online shop window aims to link recipients of proof of concept grants with business angels interested in adding cash and expertise to take projects forward

Decisions over research, farm and other EU budgets postponed to the end of 2019, as EU Council divides over top EU leadership jobs

Rosie Hicks, head of the Australian Research Data Commons shares her thoughts on open science. Europe and Australia should make sure their data sharing infrastructures can interoperate, she says

Günther Oettinger asks EU member states to publish a roadmap that lays out how they will reach agreement on the next EU budget by the October deadline

Would-be candidates given more time to submit applications to join the five advisory boards which will shape the new research missions

For the first time, annual country-specific recommendations for economic policy advise all EU member states to look to R&I investments

Commission underestimated difficulties of deploying EU-wide eHealth system, which has seen little exchange of information to date

As EU’s Space Council meets for first time in eight years, ministers pledge to increase cooperation

Chris Skidmore says joining the EU’s €94.1B research programme after Brexit remains a priority, but admits in some areas UK may need to “fill the gaps”. Scientists, meanwhile, fear that EU election results make crashing-out more likely