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There's less for Horizon 2020 than the €80B the Commission proposed, though R&D will get more money than in FP7. With smoke and mirrors obscuring the true figures, MEPs say the real negotiations start now

Winners of European Research Council Proof-of-Concept grants showcased scientific breakthroughs and pitched their market potential to investors at a Science|Business Innovation Board event this week

As the Council meets to continue negotiating the budget for 2014 – 2020, senior industrialists, R&D administrators, university vice chancellors, Nobel prize winners and grass roots scientists insist the proposed €80B Horizon 2020 budget must be approved

Lower nitrogen losses with perennial biofuel crops

As the number one priority for ICT research, the 10-year FET Flagship projects in graphene and computer modelling of the brain announced this week are guaranteed €1B each - regardless of any cuts in the proposed €80B Horizon 2020 programme

New IEA publication details how Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden could decarbonise their power sectors and electrify transport

Taking EU Presidency, Irish politicians hope for a deal by summer – but many predict the budget wrangling will continue all year

Willow trees cultivated for green energy can yield up to five times more biofuel if they grow diagonally, compared with those that are allowed to grow naturally up towards the sky.

Six of the world’s most prestigious public drug discovery organisations are joining forces in a bid to improve the conversion rate of basic research into much-needed new therapies

It’s up to MEPs to ally with the Commission and stop the European Council cutting the proposed €80B research programme, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, R&D Commissioner, tells the European Parliament as negotiations reach a head