All News

A new round of €384M in Canadian grants wins applause from the R&D community, but also questions about how fast science and technology budgets can keep growing

A report commissioned by the ITRE committee says small companies should tap EU funds to develop new products and services, strengthening Europe’s space industry and reinforcing its global competitiveness

The incumbents of the aerospace industry are lagging behind free-thinking new entrants when it comes to meeting climate change targets

The EIC’s investment arm is caught up in legal difficulties and infighting at the Commission. Start-ups and SMEs promised equity funding face ‘massive uncertainty’ and will have to wait months into 2022 to get the cash

Agreement is expected to end years of political disagreement that held back attempts to add more money to the public R&D purse, while new tax incentives aim to persuade companies to invest more in innovation

As the European Research Council hands out €619M to early-career researchers in first Horizon Europe funding round, 28 grantees in Switzerland must take the money elsewhere, while UK-based winners warned they may have to do likewise if association talks fail

Biden Administration issues new ‘guidance’ for US academics reporting their collaborations with China, Russia and others – attempting to strike balance between security and openness

With talks to update the roadmap on EU/China research collaboration stalled, a new report argues the EU should copy Beijing and draw up a list of foreign technologies it wants to acquire. This is the latest warning that Europe lacks intelligence on Chinese research, politics and society.

Initial steps in implementing a new look European Research Area, progress on Horizon Europe association of Switzerland and the UK, France’s Council presidency pushing to ensure EU technology sovereignty and warmer transatlantic R&D relations, are all on the cards

With money finally flowing to projects, the next year will be a critical time to lay the foundations for beating cancer, adapting to climate change, saving the oceans and protecting soils

The last six months have seen a flurry of announcements as brain-hungry countries try to lure researchers, entrepreneurs and students

With our handling of critical vaccine and gene technologies, we risk repeating the same disastrous mistakes of nuclear weaponry 75 years ago. Is it too late to learn from history?

Facing COVID-19 and climate challenges, a group of international research leaders is pushing the G7 to create a new framework for precompetitive collaboration