European Union

Some of the best-known names in European business are to join a research consortium to develop products for people who have difficulty using everyday items.

Dundee University is to lead a €12 million research project aiming to find early indicators of certain types of cancer and to promote the development of new drugs.

The 42 metre European Extremely Large Telescope, which will be the world’s biggest telescope, is to be located on Armazones in Chile.

EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has called for fresh ideas from parliament, and the public and private sectors.

There is a “birth defect” in the governance structure of the European Research Council, its new scientific head Helga Nowotny told MEPs last week.

A contest between Australia and South Africa over the world’s biggest radio telescope highlights the economic impact of ‘Big Science’.

As the Commission prepares to set out translations rules for the European patent on May 18, here are some helpful suggestions from Bruno Van Pottelsberghe of the Bruegel think tank.

EU rules on R&D funding are too onerous, MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis tells Science|Business’s Anna Jenkinson.