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The Commission this week published a new guide to help users of European research, innovation and cohesion funding – the “Practical Guide to EU funding opportunities for Research and Innovation”.

After frowning on the idea of avoiding patent litigation through arbitration, the European Commission appears to have changed its mind.

Connect national research programmes into one huge, coordinated joint programme with the view to solving common problems, suggests the Commission.

After the proposed Small Business Act, now it’s the turn of the European Commission’s wealthiest department – the regional policy directorate – to do its bit for SMEs.

Stakeholders from national bodies, social partners and industry met up this week to consider how best to implement the European Qualifications Framework.

The Joint Technology Initiative on fuel cells and hydrogen now has the go-ahead from the Commission, with the first call for proposals expected later in the year.

Enabling scientists to go to work in any country in the EU is one of the key planks of the European Research Area. Now member states must be persuaded.

The European Commission has launched a public consultation to inform a move to modernise and simplify the legislation on medical devices.

An exclusive focus on regulatory issues means we are ignoring a crucial longer-term question: the global competitiveness of the European ICT sector, says Martin Fransman.

The responses to the Green Paper on creating a single European Research Area raise the spectre of more red tape and reduced competition.