EU

The EU's flagships for industry/academic collaboration risk putting off researchers because the European Union won't fund more than 20 percent of overhead costs say research organisations.

Finland’s VTT Technical Research Centre is to coordinate an EU project on methods for producing pharmaceutical compounds in plant cells.

There was no headway towards the Lisbon target of spending 3 per cent of GDP on R&D, according to the latest figures from Eurostat.

The European Policy Centre, a Brussels policy think-tank, has called on the European Union to adopt a more market-oriented approach to innovation policy.

The first call for research proposals in aeronautics and air transport under Framework Programme 7 has identified 36 highly projects that promise to bring greener, safer and more secure air transport.