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President of Germany’s biggest science organisation sounds the alarm on falling science investment in more than half of EU member states

EU receives 54 cross-border proposals to create new shared campuses

Expert group publishes report on Europe’s future research strategy, following its year-long, “Tour d’Europe”

Plan to help Hungarian companies innovate will encourage universities and research institutes to strengthen ties with industry and to raise income by providing innovation services

In an op-ed calling for European renewal, French President Emmanuel Macron gives his explicit support to the EIC, putting an end to speculation over his position

In his 20 years as head of Germany’s biggest AI research lab Wolfgang Wahlster has seen the tech hype machine splutter three times. As he hands over to a new CEO, he warns colleagues: ‘Don’t over-promise’

His mandate now expired, Robert-Jan Smits reflects on how his radical open access plan has delighted and infuriated in equal measure. ‘This was the icebreaker that science needed,’ he says

Improvements in life expectancy are slowing down across Europe. An OECD-commissioned report attempts to unpick the reasons and calls for countries to step-up research and monitoring of mortality

The Commission’s new ‘Task Force EIC’ would include staffers from both its research and SME agencies, as part of a major restructuring of the EU’s research organisation

Brexit has disrupted life at the biggest fusion facility in the world. But as it enters the final stage of its operation, JET is ‘out to smash records’, Ian Chapman, CEO of nuclear fusion programme tells Science|Business