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The EU-Africa clinical research scheme is promoting deep collaboration and leading to improved treatments, says director Michael Makanga. It should be bigger and better in Horizon Europe

Europe could lose its competitive edge in sustainable food production if the EU does not rethink its rule on genome editing crop plants. Researchers across the EU issue a fresh call for the ban to be lifted

The 70 experts will be responsible for designing the large-scale, objective-driven research projects, which are seen as central to reframing Europe’s approach to tackling ‘grand challenges’ including climate change, soil erosion, sustainable food production and marine and freshwater pollution

Two years after first opening the doors, the JRC is making further facilities available, in the fields of transport and nuclear research

EuroHPC launches five calls for supercomputing research worth €95M. That is expected to be backed with matched funding from national governments

EU seeking ideas to shape initial years of proposed €9.2B digital infrastructure programme

In his first day in office, new prime minister controversially returns his brother to former brief as science and universities minister, while pledging to liberate UK bioscience and develop UK satnav rival to Galileo

There’s an appetite to develop research relationship with Brussels, but agreeing terms is ‘a long-haul game’ says James Whisstock, scientific head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s base in Australia

Switzerland, Sweden, U.S., Netherlands, U.K. top the league, but trade protectionism poses risks for future innovation

Science|Business is canvassing views on the big research priorities for the next term of the EU, from 2019 to 2024. Here, six policy experts discuss the most pressing items on the EU’s to-do list for health

New report shows how long term investment in novel products like cell and gene therapies is beginning to bear fruit. The concern now is the price of these products and ensuring patients get access

The European Commission’s science and knowledge service says fighting mis- and disinformation is one of the grand challenges of the 21st century

G20 statement marks first international agreement on how artificial intelligence should work – but also shows deep divisions between US, EU, Japan, China and Canada on the way forward

Daniel Zajfman, head of the Weizmann Institute, one of Israel’s leading research universities, explains his formula for promoting excellence. Fund researchers and give them full independence and control over the direction of their work, he says