Thomas Brent

EU’s blocking of Erasmus and Horizon Europe funds to 21 Hungarian universities over rule of law concerns has caught many unaware. The Hungarian government says it has done what it was agreed to address these issues

The move is intended to protect EU money but opposition politicians worry about its impact on Hungarian students

Open access means more and more scientific research is free to read. But now there are complaints about ‘massive’ fees that must be paid upfront by authors and claims commercial publishers are making excessive profits

There are two new calls in the €900M plan that aims to reduce the innovation gap in Europe

An anthropologist studying conspiracy theories is just the second researcher in the country to win a European Research Council grant, a small step forward as Slovakia struggles to improve its research system

While the government-mandated transfer of research institutes was found not to infringe scientific freedom, it did breach the property rights of the Academy of Sciences. For researchers, that is hampering the day-to-day operation of the institutes

UK university opens research institute in Wroclaw to give it a foothold in mainland Europe and reopen access to EU research funding

The region’s entrepreneur scene is fast developing, but it still lags far behind western Europe in the number of companies and the amount of capital they attract

Economic development means the country could soon find it is no longer eligible for EU funding designed to address regional disparities in income, wealth and opportunities. This could leave research and innovation €3B worse off

The CE7 coalition of seven universities hopes a new partnership with the League European Research Universities will give them more influence in shaping EU policy to better suit their needs