Ukraine

A European Institute of Innovation and Technology scheme allowing Ukrainian institutions to join existing university entrepreneurship networks has seen significant uptake – leading on to a number of success stories

A report from a recent conference looking at the impact of war one year on, calls for measures to protect science systems in times of crisis - starting with Ukraine

Following a fact-finding mission to Kyiv – that included retreating to the bomb shelter at the Ministry of Education and Science during a missile attack - researchers are appealing to the EU to scale-up its support for scientists in Ukraine

Despite continued shelling, perspectives are shifting to the longer-term and moving closer to the rest of Europe. ‘We cannot rebuild Ukraine unless we also invest in research and innovation,’ deputy minister for research and innovation Andrii Vitrenko tells Science|Business

Russian strikes on electricity infrastructure have made research all but impossible, and slashed academic salaries are pushing scholars to moonlight in the IT sector, conference hears

Boris Lushniak, Obama-era health official and now a university dean, offers guidelines for academics debating if they should sever Russian scientific ties. The goal: get Russian scientists to ‘look at the facts’

Christian Ehler says the EU should suspend Horizon payments to Russia, as Germany freezes all research ties with Russia in unprecedented move

‘The educational process continues remotely’ says head of the University of Lviv. In neighbouring Romania, universities are offering help to Ukrainian academics and students, as the bombing intensifies

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