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Lessons were not sufficiently drawn from the heavy hit on Estonia’s internet back in 2007, says EU cyber watchdog Udo Helmbrecht. Technical proficiency has improved, but the EU could not mount a coordinated response

As the EU lays the ground for its first foray into defence research, Denis Roger, Director of European synergies and innovation talks to Science|Business about what to expect from the new €90 million programme

The annual Slush show draws 17,500 from around the world to entrepreneurship festival – highlighting the role of universities in building a tech culture in Europe

The ERC has become one of the world’s most important funders of basic research. As it approaches its 10th anniversary, a new account describes the formation and subsequent development of this beacon of excellence

New programme will be a “very different animal” from Horizon 2020. This is a first step - to test the waters - in carrying out defence research at a European level

An analysis of the first two years of Horizon 2020 lays bare the growing competition for EU research money. The chances of securing a grant are now around half what they were in Framework Programme 7

The UK is to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement. That flies in the face of prime minister Theresa May’s pledge to be free of the EU Court of Justice - and hints at a ‘soft’ Brexit

European Commission sets out a strategy to make internet-connected vehicles widespread by 2019. The aim is to improve road safety and fuel efficiency

A just-launched university lobby group wants to find new ways to recognise excellent research across the whole of the EU

Joint European Commission and OECD study of 36 countries finds big disparities in outcomes and says governments should spend more on public health and prevention to cut premature deaths

With growth forecasts sharply down from before the referendum, the pledge to balance the budget by 2020 is abandoned. New borrowing will allow for a Keynesian-style splurge on infrastructure and R&D

Horizon 2020-funded researchers in poorer countries of the EU are paid less than if they worked on projects funded by their national governments. Two Romanian MEPs have written to Jean-Claude Juncker to complain about this discrimination

The EU Commission has proposed a European Open Science Cloud. Science|Business, following its September 20 members’ conference on the topic, offers this primer

Insolvency rule reshape a bid to save 200,000 companies a year

European Institute of Innovation and Technology picks TUMunich to lead a new food group, but rejects a separate bid to start an industrial project