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Portugal-based Gulbenkian Foundation will join an established research team, active in 11 African countries, to help fight rampant diseases like malaria and AIDS

Incessant talk of a North-South R&D divide is not baseless but it’s becoming tired. It is time to try and change things says Carlos Zorrinho, Brussels’ quiet revolutionary

Member states line up 2,000 project proposals in transport, energy and research, for funding from the EU’s new investment scheme

Europe’s carbon market is not dead in the water, but rather a work in progress, says Andreas Loeschel, who advises Chancellor Angela Merkel on overhauling Germany’s energy mix

An expert panel urges the new European Commission to reap the economic benefits of science on-line

In 2013, the growth rate of private R&D investment in Europe fell to 2.9 per cent, due to falling corporate profits and a weak pharma and tech sector

With funding agreed, the European Space Agency’s new Ariane 6 space rocket should be ready for lift-off in 2020

Science|Business reveals member states’ bids for education projects they want to see funded under the EU’s new €315B Fund for Strategic Investment, unveiled last week

Juncker growth plan moves money from grant programmes – including €2.7 billion from Horizon 2020 - to a financial fund for riskier projects

After months of controversy, Anne Glover will leave the Commission in January – ending an experiment to bring scientific evidence into EU policy