European Union

European Commission officials are studying ways to give R&D investment an additional boost from 2009, according to a senior EC research official.

An avalanche of 9,167 applications hit the European Research Council in 2007. Its boss reviews the lessons it learned.

Current holder of the EU presidency Portugal is claiming a breakthrough in the long-running drive to create a unified patent litigation system across Europe.

Today, the European Union sets out its research strategy for energy – looking to find the low-carbon technology fix for climate change.

Researchers using the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, and working with scientists, have become the first to elucidate the structure of a membrane protein, an important advance for drug discovery.

The ITER nuclear fusion cooperation agreement might expand to eight following European Commissioner for science and research Janez Potocnik’s visit to Brazil last week.

The first call for research proposals in aeronautics and air transport under Framework Programme 7 has identified 36 highly projects that promise to bring greener, safer and more secure air transport.

The European Commission has taken the first step in reforming research advice by appointing three people to identify experts from around Europe to form the advisory European Research Area Board.

Biotech and pharma companies have overtaken the technology sector in the European Commission’s annual scoreboard of R&D investment for the first time.

New findings strengthen concerns that the European Clinical Trials Directive has hampered academic clinical research.