Horizon 2020

Orion will explore ways in which research and funding organisations can open up how they fund, organise, conduct and disseminate research

Participants and member state governments have given their views on the EU’s R&D programme Horizon 2020 to date. The verdict: good, but in need of several big mid-course adjustments. Low success rates, lengthy proposals and lack of feedback are common complaints

EU Parliament confirms an overall €200M boost, half of the €400M requested

EU and UK negotiators are not seen as far apart on research, but with Article 50 now triggered, getting a deal on R&D is likely to be some way down the list of priorities

Soledad Cabezón Ruiz, MEP, will challenge the European Commission to better justify the money it awards to industry for research projects in an opinion to be delivered to the Parliament on Thursday.

Amid the 10th birthday celebrations, ERC president Jean-Pierre Bourguignon set down a marker for the future, suggesting the annual budget should rise to €4 billion over the next ten years.

Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General for Research and Innovation – European Commission, will receive the 2016 Academy Medal

‘This is the moment that if I was an investor I would double my bet on Europe,’ says Moedas, on the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council

University of Eastern Finland head Jukka Mönkkönen talks to Science|Business about pushing harder and faster on open data to make pan European data stores available on tap

EU-funded researchers in poorer member states will get higher wages after politicians argued the current remuneration structure fuels an east-to-west brain drain. But it is not clear how much the increase will cost - or how it will be funded