European Union

The first €1M grants from the EIT will be signed next week. Now the real work begins, chairman Martin Schuurmans tells Science|Business.

The European Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) have agreed a two-year extension to the ip4inno programme.

Planting of genetically modified crops fell in Europe in 2009, as countries elsewhere increased adoption and China approved biotech food crops for the first time.

The European Ombudsman has begun an investigation into how the Commission conducted a study into the use of non-human primates in research.

A meeting of EU ministers has approved the “Donostia Declaration”, defining the role it expects science to play in economic recovery.

The Spanish EU Presidency aims to draw up and win approval for the successor to Lisbon, the 2020 Strategy.

The President of the European Research Council and Chair of its Scientific Council is stepping down a year before the end of his term.