Horizon Europe

Ministers are yet to say how the country will pay for access to the EU science programme, as opposition MPs tell government it is not ‘walking the talk’ on ‘science superpower’ commitment

Age limits are introduced in a bid to increase success rates, while new incentive to spend time in industry aims to develop more transferrable skills. €1.8B will be awarded in the next two years

The launch of Horizon Europe has been a moving target. Now, MEPs urge the European Commission to make sure delays to the research programme do not affect scientists

As debate rages over European control of sensitive technologies, Germany’s parliamentary state secretary Thomas Rachel says three EU neighbours are ‘important partners'

Evolving plan for Horizon Europe is caught up in fierce debate over whether EU should block its closest neighbours from strategic technology research

German MEP Niklas Nienass says the drive for technological independence ‘goes too far’ and will ‘shed a poor light on the EU’

After complaints about unequal access to leaked Horizon Europe draft programmes, the European Commission has started to publish some of them in a ‘transparency exercise’. The final rubber-stamped versions will appear early in May

The EU has made significant investments in research infrastructures. It now needs more and better technology infrastructures, to help innovations reach the market and scale up, say experts

With the European Commission about to reinforce widening and to revive the European Research Area, researchers in central and eastern Europe weigh in on the promise the innovation gap will narrow under Horizon Europe

Researchers stunned as draft Horizon Europe work programme shuts out close research partners. ‘This is not in Europe’s interest’ says leading quantum physicist