Policy

The EU has launched a €400 million joint programme with EUREKA countries to finance R&D partnerships with SMEs.

Reinhard Grunwald has resigned as Secretary General of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The new Secretary General is Dorothee Dzwonnek .

National research funding and grant giving bodies should be given more prominence in the European Commission’s plans to create the European Research Area, say research council heads and the European Science Foundation.

Germany’s largest research funding organisation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, elected eight new members to its Senate at its general assembly in Bonn.

Big changes are in store for one of Britain’s most prestigious universities if, as expected, University College London signs off on a modernising green paper from Provost Malcolm Grant.