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Science|Business polled some of the main stakeholders of the EU’s next research funding programme about the proposed simplifications. The verdict: Nice try, but let’s work on the details

The European Commission proposes to unite national funding agencies in ‘pacts’ to complete the European Research Area (ERA) by 2014 deadline - without further legislation

There’s plenty of (empirical) evidence to justify specific measures to put women scientists on an equal footing with their male counterparts. A Gender Summit next week must make an unambiguous call for Horizon 2020 to embrace this view

The European Commission’s DG Research director-general Robert-Jan Smits is calling on the European Parliament to help simplify regulations and make the system for public private partnerships more user-friendly

As it prepares to launch €418 million of new calls, the Commission says the bureaucracy-lite public-private projects set up in the economic emergency will be a model for research funding in the future

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Research, Innovation and Science Commissioner has announced the winner of the competition to name the future EU funding programme for research and innovation