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With time running out to reverse Horizon 2020 cuts, UK universities take their fight to the EU’s doorstep

Cold air and abundant renewable energy are the ingredients for greener data centres, says Matz Engman, who helped entice internet giant Facebook to set up shop in the remote north of Sweden

European scientists can now apply for research contracts and jobs at the third generation light source at the Sesame facility in Jordan, which is due to come on stream next year

With most applications failing to pass the initial quality criteria, the Future and Emerging Technologies FET Open scheme has an overall success rate of only four per cent

Companies looking for funding in the first two calls for public-private partnerships under the Key Enabling Technologies programme represent more than 50 per cent of total applications. Of these, 30 per cent come from SMEs

Following its launch in 2014, the instrument quickly became very popular among European SMEs, and the Commission has been flooded with applications. Sadly, success rates are low, ranging from 6 to 10 per cent

Mounds of paperwork and regulation are blocking the route to capital markets for small companies. It’s time for reforms to change this, says Rainer Riess, head of the Federation for European Securities

uniqure NV, the Dutch company which won the first approval for a gene therapy, is taking its technology into the mainstream in a collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb to develop treatments for heart diseases

New research suggests that ordinary clay could make a relatively cheap contribution to the decarbonisation struggle. But feasibility remains a long way off

Tibor Navracsics speaks to Science|Business on how he’d spend money from the EU’s €315 billion investment fund

Average success rates have fallen – but applications are being reviewed faster, Commission details at Science|Business conference

A Science|Business Network Brief

A new Science|Businesss Network report looks towards future trends in four key sectors

Speaking at the Science|Business Horizon 2020 conference, Tibor Navracsics defends controversial plans to tap the EU innovation budget, and spoke on the importance of Marie Curie grants for researchers

Limpet teeth have overtaken spider silk as the world’s strongest natural material. As attempts are made to replicate and put this material to use, it is important to look to the IP strategy, say patent attorneys Ben Dempster and Jennifer Unsworth