Horizon Europe

Economist Mariana Mazzucato publishes a how-to kit for managing new funding formula. Missions should be ambitious - even risky - but also “realistically feasible”

EU executive, concerned about negotiations for next long-term budget dragging out, underlines the harm it would do to EU priorities

Sweden’s experience in shifting the focus of EU-funded research from a thematic base to a defined, higher-impact approach could provide a template for mission-oriented research in Framework Programme 9. That would also open up FP9 to less-developed regions and third countries

Fast-changing draft of next EU Framework Programme highlights Macron’s plan for ‘disruptive innovation’ and bridging east-west research divide – but nothing is finalised yet

Research Commissioner visits European Parliament to shore up support for upcoming legislative proposal

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  

Commission hopes a new funding formula can generate big advances, capture more imaginations and boost the profile of its work

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