France

President Macron’s scale-up initiative aims to bring together some of the bloc’s most successful founders to drum up ideas for fostering high growth enterprises

Emmanuel Macron lays out a €1.8B strategy to slingshot the country into becoming a quantum powerhouse, as Germany draws up a €2B programme of quantum research as part of its pandemic recovery plan

Berlin and Paris set ambitious plans for ‘gigafactory’ collaboration in a hydrogen economy – but obstacles remain

The scientific director of the ILL says EU should contribute more to large research infrastructures, to strengthen the European Research Area

The Global AI Partnership, a body set up to develop a global approach to governance of the technology, gets underway with opening of hubs in Paris and Montréal and recruitment of a pioneer of the field

Money is part of €15B bailout for sector and includes the goal of speeding up development of carbon-neutral planes by 15 years