International collaboration

Four research leaders urge a step-change in international R&D collaboration, starting with challenges in wireless, hydrogen, epidemiology and other fields

‘Quad’ countries to work together on semiconductors, telecoms, quantum and space. A new fellowship to bring 100 students to the US each year

Joint research calls, supply chain monopolies and standards setting. All these topics and more were on the agenda at a meeting in Washington DC. China was shut out, opening a geopolitical fault line in a critical technology of the future

While stressing research across borders remains crucial, European universities now acknowledge that cooperation is not always an unalloyed good that transcends geopolitics

Despite provocative comments from the head of the Russian space agency, no steps have been taken and NASA says cooperation continues as normal

Experts detect the emergence of a patchy international convergence around the use of artificial intelligence

With association now linked to the EU’s wider relationship with Switzerland and the UK, the parliament wants a formal position in talks. Research programmes have increasingly become ‘strategic instruments’ tied to the ‘general political agenda’

Research cooperation is caught up in rising tensions between London and Brussels regarding Northern Ireland’s status in the EU single market, says research commissioner Mariya Gabriel

Officials set out terms of ‘open strategic autonomy’ to replace the ‘open to the world’ mantra

Washington and Brussels announce a new joint technology policy council and links on research, including a potential initiative in biotechnology and genomics