Excellence

Members of the European Parliament assess the strengths and weaknesses - and question aspects of the Commission’s Horizon 2020 plan

More needs to be done to promote synergies between Europe’s various funding programmes, say MEPs

Key MEPs are calling for specific measures to widen the horizon of the EU’s flagship research programme and ensure there is more participation from member states with less-developed R&D systems

The debate over Horizon 2020 funding heats up, with publication of a Danish ‘declaration’ on the importance of funding excellent science

Bigger, and simpler – those are among the promised virtues of the proposed Horizon 2020 programme. But are the changes sufficient to tempt industry back into the fold? And will universities like what they get? A Science|Business meeting in Brussels heard from some of the key architects of the plan

As it celebrates its 5th birthday, the European Research Council is not about to give in to pressure to spread grants more evenly across Europe. Excellence will prevail, says president Helga Nowotny