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Budget discussions are on for the EU’s next R&I funding programme, due to begin in 2028, and the European Parliament wants more than twice as much as was agreed last time

European and Japanese scientists will fine tune their scientific models on each other’s machines, hopefully boosting performance and future-proofing code. It’s the latest push from Brussels to create stronger research links with ‘like-minded’ democracies

MEPs’ ambition is to up funding for the European Innovation Council, and for health and climate research. But this is once again at odds with budget cuts proposed by EU governments

Two scale-ups at the nexus between academia and industry are helping EIT Digital revise its masters’ programmes and keep pace with the fast-moving fields of cybersecurity and robotics

Europe is at a disadvantage in attracting investments in green technology, with high risks and a lack of certainty deterring investors

Politicians must not be allowed to harness fears around artificial intelligence to divide people, says Dragoș Tudorache MEP, who is leading Europe’s charge to regulate this powerful technology

The continuing roll out of lump sums across Horizon Europe is coming to the €10B European Innovation Council in 2024. Meanwhile, EU auditors are calling for ‘technical changes’ to this approach to disbursing grants

Parliament votes to prevent money being taken away from Horizon Europe’s Pillar II to fund the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform

Kiwi researchers have won four bids so far, although this could create budget headaches for Wellington. New Zealand also wants to collaborate with the EU on sensitive technologies like space and quantum

The Chips joint undertaking is a rebrand of the Key Digital Technologies partnership, with a bigger budget and more responsibilities

EU officials say economic security assessments are a first step towards gaining competitive edge in semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and biotechnology

To deliver on their ambitious climate and health promises, the objective-driven research projects require a change in policymaking culture across Europe, says Wolfgang Polt, who is spearheading efforts to promote transnational cooperation in support of the Missions

Following the Russian invasion, the latest grants awarded by the European Defence Fund back technologies to improve the security of Europe. That is in contrast to earlier awards when the emphasis was on expeditionary capabilities

A dedicated unit, a debate in the European Research Area Forum and pilot projects are in the works, as the Commission looks to set European guidelines for science’s AI revolution. Now member states need to ‘wake up’ to ensure rules don’t diverge