The Conservative party is defending a 9,582 majority in Oxford West and Abingdon, a constituency where 62% backed Remain in the referendum. Polls indicate Brexit and its consequences for science are a concern for voters in the city
New analysis finds the extremely competitive research programme is rejecting more and more great proposals. The success rate is down from 18.5% in FP7 to a lowly 11.6% now
Romanian government drops foreign evaluators from its national funding schemes and cuts science funding as the EU gears up for the next research framework programme
The Hungarian government and New York governor Andrew Cuomo to start talks that may end threat that a new higher education law would force CEU to close its Budapest campus
Small and growing companies will enjoy better access to finance on the back of new EU rules agreed as part of the Commission's drive to stimulate venture capital investment
A ranking of the world’s clusters on the basis of patent filings puts Tokyo-Yokohama in Japan first by a large margin. The top-ranked in Europe is Paris in 10th place
Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Barcelona among top contenders to replace London as home for European Medicines Agency, following new rules for the October decision
Leading funders of clinical research around the world say they will require grant holders to register trials in advance and to publish data in full, regardless of whether the results are positive or not
After ignoring previous warnings, security experts say it is now time for health systems to address their IT blind spots – before the next big cyber attack
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