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EU science chief says he may go into the private sector for a few years before seeking election

Former head of Delft University of Technology, Karel Luyben, will set direction for EU’s cloud project, now formally underway on mission to provide access to all publicly funded research

Draft accord pledges to ‘explore options’ on wider science cooperation in text outlining basis for a trade agreement

Research commercialisation body sees proposed funding cut in favour of R&D aid for eastern member states. ‘We don’t want the research programme to reflect Trump-like policies,’ says Christian Ehler, rapporteur, as door is left open to UK

Disagreements over European Innovation Council and industry partnerships are holding up an outline deal. Research ministers aim to seal blueprint for science programme next week

Countries in line for EU membership would face same treatment as all others outside the EU and - as things stand - no preferential terms are on offer to the UK post-Brexit

A long-debated research and education reform aims to pave the way for universities to become international R&D players

EU’s poorest country is the exemplar for why national systems need fixing before there is any preferential treatment in Horizon Europe. As things stand, more funding for R&D in Romania would be ‘money thrown out of the window’

As European Parliament committee prepares to meet, its draft legislation would take a different tack from the Commission’s original plan

Šefčović backs renewal of €1.33B fuel cells project and predicts more funding for the technology