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With negotiations stalled, Swiss universities fears hiatus could be at least as damaging as the 2014 – 2016 ban from EU research. National schemes fail to recognise the value of collaboration and won’t fill the gap

As the Brussels policy machine gets back into gear, Science|Business has drawn up a list of the main policy debates to follow over the next few months

Namibia has the natural resources, while Germany wants to become a world-leading hydrogen economy. A new partnership will see Germany inject €40M with the aim of putting both countries at the forefront of clean energy innovation

Informal discussions are taking place on the terms of possible association, but at a launch event for Horizon Europe today there was little evident enthusiasm from Australia and New Zealand’s representatives to get that involved in the research programme.

Schemes that enable knowledge exchange and temporary stays abroad are viewed as making a contribution to slowing the brain drain and preventing another R&D fault line developing if/when these countries become EU members

A new study shows patients mistrust the use of artificial intelligence tools in healthcare - and points to lack of transparency as the cause

The funding agency is to spend £46.7 million every year to cover the costs of the new policy

The UK government claims the Turing scheme will fully replace Erasmus+, but the two schemes have different aims.

The Science|Business news service is on a summer break until 24 August, but here are some of our favourite reads of the year on EU R&D policy

As things stand, stakeholders will have little say over how proposed increases in R&D budgets are implemented in member states. But this input and know-how is essential to advancing the single European area for research, says Science Europe