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Two years on from the invasion of Ukraine, the war has exacerbated Russian academic isolation from Europe and North America. Ukraine, meanwhile, has seen a surge of collaboration with the west – and with Poland in particular

New research shows how East Germany and other former Eastern bloc countries remain affected by the legacy of the command economy and the shock transition to capitalism

With a broader global downturn in start-up investment, the resilience and ‘ingrained frugality’ of central and eastern Europe could see the region prosper

As Mariya Gabriel prepares to take up rotating role of prime minister of Bulgaria in March, she says measures aimed at closing Europe’s research and innovation gap are a ‘powerful tool’

Universities are increasingly looking at other ways of exploiting academic assets, beyond the traditional focus on patenting

Brussels and London still have very different approaches to regulating the technology, but the UK’s AI minister struck a collaborative tone on a recent visit to Brussels, part of a wider détente on science and technology

At the Munich Security Conference, Bettina Stark-Watzinger made the case that research is now at the centre of geopolitical rivalry. But changing the German research system remains difficult

At an informal meeting in Belgium, EU research ministers and research commissioner Iliana Ivanova agreed on the need to safeguard research funding, after €2.1 billion was cut from Horizon Europe

The defence sector has been slow to embrace sustainability, but that is beginning to change, as it becomes clear climate change will shape future conflicts