Horizon 2020

Process will give member states and stakeholders a say on what has gone right and wrong since 2014, and what should be done going forwards

Preparations for the second half of Horizon Europe, review of the programme to date and a full assessment of the Horizon 2020 predecessor are to start next month. A joint consultation on all three starts in November

Demand for faux alternatives is high, and European start-ups are going hell for leather to capture a piece of the market.

Research heavyweights in central and eastern Europe met last week to consider how to improve their performance in EU research funding programmes. At present most applicants from the region are rejected at the first stage of evaluation

After years of talks on deeper research cooperation between the EU and Canada, it’s a decisive time as the EU launches its €95.5 billion R&D programme . ‘We want them with us’, says Ursula von der Leyen

EU officials expected to revise proposal to bar the three non-EU countries from quantum and space R&D, after call for full participation gains wide support. Excluding them would ‘only impact negatively on ourselves in the most unaffordable manner’

Frustrations boil over in Brussels as long-running treaty saga drags on

Leading research universities come together to denounce proposal to ban neighbours from EU quantum and space projects. ‘An EU-first approach weakens everyone,’ says one