International collaboration

Riken’s push abroad follows period of stagnant science funding at home. Our scientists “are inward-looking. This tendency has to change,” says Riken president

Ambassadors for Japan, US, Canada and others want more information on possible collaboration with the EU’s planned €94.1B R&D programme. R&D commissioner Carlos Moedas is preparing to brief them

The government is allotting C$950 million to a new concept for technology translation and commercialisation that borrows ideas from Germany’s Fraunhofer Institutes and the UK’s Catapults

EU research programmes must remain open to non-member countries, groups say in joint appeal

New ‘G6’ group of top French, German, Italian and Spanish institutes aims for more collaboration, and to ‘make sure politicians understand the urgency’ of science investment

Romanian MEP Dan Nica, rapporteur on Horizon Europe, wants to make it harder for non-EU scientists to win grants. “We don’t have enough money to send around the world,” he says. Many argue his ideas would damage science

Greater cooperation is needed to address global challenges, but EU bureaucracy and complex rules are undermining scientific partnerships. So will Horizon Europe be more – or less – open to the world?