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The coronavirus crisis is leading to lower emissions across Europe and around the world. But these reductions are temporary  - and, despite a  postponement of the global climate summit, experts say now is not the time to put green energy research and climate policy on lockdown

Hard-pressed governments lack time and capacity to agree on long-term funding for 2021 - 2027

EU releases new Horizon 2020 funding plans, announces €450M in ERC basic science grants

Start-ups rush to submit ideas for European Innovation Council pilot programme, but winners won’t be picked until May

Other G20 leaders should step forward to make up shortfall in epidemic response fund, the UK says

Universities, research institutes, clinical trials and big science machines are shut down, as scientists are redeployed into critical research areas and medically-trained academic staff freed up to care for patients

Wolfgang Burtscher has been appointed to lead the commission’s agriculture directorate general, effective 1 April

The UK-based innovation network, in partnership with media company Science|Business, creates a free online “space” for COVID-19 researchers to find one another across the globe, and team up to find treatments and the funding to support their work

Most students in Europe can’t get to their campuses, and universities are scrambling to put together digital systems needed for remote learning

A look at some of the main research teams working to develop a vaccine