Research

As ESA takes action, there are calls for the Commission to stop any more research funds flowing to Russia. Researchers there picked up €14M in the seven years of the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme, with some of these projects running until 2026

As Ukraine calls on world to ‘fully isolate Russia by all means’, Germany is to block research links. Meanwhile EU policymakers are weighing whether to kick Russia out of European science organisations

Research can’t be ‘dissociated’ from politics, says Frédérique Vidal.  But a senior French scientist says  keeping the UK and Switzerland out ‘punishes all of us’

As the development of COVID-19 vaccines illustrates, freely sharing publications and data speeds the translation of research - for public good. With the case proved, there must be a renewed push for open access

The EMA has also announced a plan to expedite study set-up on the back of the Clinical Trials Regulation, coming into force at the end of this month. But beneath the rhetoric of Brexit deregulation, the UK does not want to diverge from international peers

A report commissioned by the ITRE committee says small companies should tap EU funds to develop new products and services, strengthening Europe’s space industry and reinforcing its global competitiveness

The EIC’s investment arm is caught up in legal difficulties and infighting at the Commission. Start-ups and SMEs promised equity funding face ‘massive uncertainty’ and will have to wait months into 2022 to get the cash

As the European Research Council hands out €619M to early-career researchers in first Horizon Europe funding round, 28 grantees in Switzerland must take the money elsewhere, while UK-based winners warned they may have to do likewise if association talks fail