Coronavirus R&D Gateway

A Swedish start-up has a ‘virus certification app’ ready to launch but it faces practical and ethical hurdles. ‘The government is not in our supporter club on this’, says Coronafree’s science adviser

‘When science and politics meet, it can become quite crunchy,’ director general Stephen Quest tells Science|Business

Analysis warns of twin hit of COVID-19 and Brexit to Scotland’s 19 universities, as EU-UK trade talks enter crunch stage

European Commission wants to double the InvestEU loan programme to €75 billion, but research won’t get any more money

Information scientist Kazuhiro Sakurada wants to use large numbers of medical records to predict who is high-risk for coronavirus

The European Commission wants to increase spending on health more than 20-fold and to take a larger role in healthcare policy

Plan to infuse recovery money into green, digital and other research initiatives faces challenge from EU fiscal hardliners

Overseas training for early career researchers may have to move online if COVID-19 restrictions remain in place in the autumn

German Research Foundation offers financial support to grantees whose work has been disrupted by COVID-19 lockdowns