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Given the “cautionary tale” of how the Swiss freedom of movement referendum led to immediate cuts in EU R&D grants, the UK government should be ready to step in with national funding, says science committee

After raiding Horizon 2020 funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments is attracting private investment and on course to reach its €315B target. But the low risk projects it is financing are not wholly innovative - only one involves a research organisation

Sheila Rowan, an award-winning experimental physicist, fills the vacancy after an 18-month gap

Three-month start-up support programme looking for a new crop of companies in Germany and Kenya

European Commission acknowledges its Blue Card scheme has underwhelmed, as it sets out new proposals to relax permit rules and ease access

EU publishes 109 comments on its plan to form a European Innovation Council – and most support the idea so long as it doesn’t eat up existing EU research funds and awards grants faster

Nine universities team up to talk up research in Europe and boost the profile of several countries’ capabilities

After four years of falling revenues, the old-stager of the computer industry is remaking itself around the artificial intelligence machine Watson. A new lab in Munich will spearhead the strategy of using AI to make sense of data from billions of internet-connected devices

Preliminary timetable set for publication of reports on 28 member states’ health systems. The aims is to highlight best practice and provide evidence to inform the modernisation of Europe’s hard-pressed healthcare systems

Commission to form new group, bringing all interested parties round one table in attempt to speed up technical standard setting. The announcement follows pledge to create new standards for 5G, cloud computing and the internet of things