European Union

As the ingredients for the EU 2020 strategy are assembled, Commissioner Maire Geoghegan Quinn asks the public: What do you want in the recipe?

An appreciation of Andrew Dearing, Secretary General of the European Industrial Research Management Association for 10 years.

Thoughts have turned to shaping Framework Programme 8. Here, Stijn Delauré and Laura Keustermans of the League of European Research Universities make their recommendations.

The science of the very small needs big, expensive instruments. More coordination is needed in Europe to translate basic research through to commercialisation.

In a bid to reduce bureaucracy, the Commission is to make an exception on how research funding is audited, putting in place a “tolerable risk of error” measure.

The European University Association has published its latest report on the impact of the economic crisis, showing the increasingly difficult situation faced by universities.

A new method is needed for linking research inputs to innovation outputs, says Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn.

A study funded under the ESTOOLS research programme has found that induced pluripotent stem cells may not provide such important disease models as first hoped.

Commissioner Neelie Kroes has unveiled the Digital Agenda for Europe, aimed at using ICT for sustainable and smart growth in Europe.

The technology is coming on apace, but Europe’s health services are not set up to get personalised healthcare to the patients.