Horizon 2020

‘Devil in the details’ when US and European researchers try to work together under Horizon 2020.

In his first public outing, Jean-Eric Paquet, recently-appointed head of the Directorate General for Research and Innovation, says he wants better linkage between research and other EU policy areas.

On his last day in one of the most powerful research seats in Europe, Robert-Jan Smits talks about his legacy and the future

Report calls for UK government to be pragmatic about the costs and benefits of continued access to EU research, but says associate countries should have greater influence over the form and direction of funding

Seven-year analysis of the Future and Emerging Technologies programme shows the projects it funded broke new ground and are on track to support potential breakthroughs

The Commission is proposing defence spending of €500M for 2019-2020. That could rise to €1.5 billion a year from 2021, but MEPs this week clashed with industry over how it should be spent  

Group of innovators strengthen the argument for the agency in a report published this week, as research commissioner presses the case

Research spending should rise to €120B in the 2021 - 2028 budget, despite shrinking EU funds post-Brexit, say MEPs

Commission announces broad new policy push to tackle scourge of plastic pollution