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Building a green economy featuring the sustainable use of natural resources and resilience to the effects of climate change is the ambitious objective of the Horizon 2020 work programme, ‘Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials’

The work programme ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’ will award €248.5M over the next two years to help Europe make the best of its biological resources

The work programme on Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies, Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, aims both to bring new materials into use and to improve manufacturing processes and systems overall

Space research will move from intellectual curiosity to providing the underpinnings of a major industrial sector, if the Horizon 2020 work programme bears fruit

Girls outperform boys in STEM subjects, but don’t translate this potential into future careers. Now, Microsoft is pushing for more women in ICT

‘Secure societies - protecting the freedom and security of Europe and its citizens’, may seem an unlikely theme for scientific research. Science|Business looks at what is involved in the first calls of this Horizon 2020 programme

As the first calls are launched, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 work programmes. Here’s the agenda for European Research Infrastructures over the next two years

As the first calls are launched and the details revealed, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 work programmes. Here is the agenda for ‘Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies’

There’s bags of holiday reading if you want to apply for funding from Horizon 2020. To leave time for the festivities Science|Business has been filleting the work programmes. Below, Future and Emerging Technologies

As the first calls are launched, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 draft programmes. Here’s the agenda for Innovation in SMEs

As the first calls for Horizon 2020 are launched, Science|Business examines the draft programmes. This week: Access to risk finance

Being popular is a usually a good thing. But the European Research Council may have too much of a good thing.

There’s a 30% increase for funding in young researchers under Horizon 2020: ScienceBusiness looks at how the Commission plans to spend it

The EU has set ambitious climate and energy targets for 2020 that require improvements and innovation in the generation, supply, delivery and use of energy. Research to be funded in Horizon 2020 should help

Management science in the Internet Age: The embarrassing fact is that this information-drenched world is too complex to manage. Computer-based decision support tools can help. But we must be sure to control them, says Helga Nowotny