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Small and medium-sized companies can apply for grants of up to €2.5M and direct equity investments of up to €15M in the first calls

Stakeholders call for the establishment of accelerators and incubators in partnership with universities, to forge rural innovation networks across Europe and reduce the EU’s innovation divide

The gas is looked to as a key to decarbonising Europe’s energy mix. To achieve massive roll-out by 2050, decisions on the future of green hydrogen must be taken now, policymakers say

Horizon Europe projects will aim to develop new tools and techniques to prevent cyberattacks, fight crime and terrorism, and tighten border controls

Confusion over GDPR is blocking scientific progress, throwing up barriers with US researchers in particular. More than 5,000 projects were affected in 2019 and the problem is ‘escalating’

Government comes up with 11th hour funds to help meet association cost after lobbying effort by science leaders. But critics still call plan ‘very opaque’, and say it isn’t enough

Massive R&D proposal is part of US President’s ‘once in a generation’ $2.3T infrastructure plan – but opposition will be intense in Congress

After the government pulls global research funds, top researchers hit back at prospect that participation in Horizon Europe will come from domestic R&D budget

The Commission is finalising the next generation of 40-odd public-private partnerships, with the first eleven set to launch in June, But after three years in the planning, the space partnership now finds itself in a sea of uncertainty

Money is set to flow for space research, new communication technologies, quantum computing and green manufacturing