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European Institute of Innovation and Technology will have more financial flexibility - but with that will come more oversight

Official work programmes are not due until April, but drafts circulating online give researchers and industry chance to start formulating grant applications

UK contribution of €2B per annum to Horizon Europe smooths the way, but researchers are concerned visas, data transfer and assorted red tape will cause friction, a Science|Business conference hears

Parliament welcomes the start of the first phase of the project to marry form and function with sustainability, but asks how the Commission plans to fund it

Politicians call on leaders to get tough at June summit, as anxiety grows over China’s technological edge

New President’s plans could make visas easier for foreign students and tech-industry workers – but it will be a long battle in Congress, and the debate is already underway 

A Science|Business survey finds the world research community is dying for the US to collaborate more on pandemic, climate and other science challenges

European Investment Bank warns innovation spending will be one of most affected areas of the economy as the COVID-19 crisis takes a toll

As they celebrate science being back in the mainstream of US policy, researchers are urging the new president to reboot the cancer programme that he championed as vice president

US is back in the World Health Organisation and the Paris climate agreement, but researchers predict the new president’s clean energy plans will face ‘ferocious’ opposition

On eve of inauguration, the US president-elect raises chief scientist to a cabinet-level position, and vows a return to the Paris climate accord ‘with the urgency the science demands’

“We are preparing the post-COVID world. A place where generations meet, life is affordable, the planet is protected and style matches with sustainability,” says Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, launching first phase of the New European Bauhaus

‘We need to be more offensive and aggressive,’ says EU Internal Market commissioner Thierry Breton, as he outlines a plan to put hundreds of communications satellites into space to run the internet

The European Commission wants to green the research agenda and have the new programme running by June, to launch the first joint calls with Horizon Europe