At the beginning of 2015, Chalmers will start its first mooc – massive open online course – free of charge and accessible to anyone with a computer. The course will be on the super-material graphene, which has not been the subject for a mooc previously.

Aeon Scientific, a biomedical engineering company, impressed the judges with its robot-controlled surgical system, which can be used to treat cardiac arrhythmia quickly and safely.

Dr Roberto Trotta has been named as a Global Thinker by the international politics magazine, Foreign Policy, for his book 'The Edge of the Sky.

Professor Graham Davies, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy & Therapeutics at King’s College London, was presented with the 2014 United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday 20 November in Nottingham.

From 2015, first-year undergraduates at TU Berlin will have an option to start studying without choosing a degree subject. A new “orientation year” will include a class in entrepreneurship, and coursework flexibility will give students more responsibility for their choices

Critical infrastructure systems are the backbone of society and ever growing in complexity and interconnectedness. A new research programme kicked off at the Singapore-ETH Centre strives to increase their robustness and resilience.

Three university centres in Barcelona have been chosen to work for six months on a CERN initiative. CERN is the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

The awards ceremony kicked off the Academic Summit at Aalto University.

A £4 million mini-factory for developing the next generation of miniaturised medical devices and robots officially opened this week.