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An historic all-Ireland collaborative research partnership uniting universities in Northern Ireland and the Republic has been struck between Queen’s University Belfast (QUB), Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Dublin (UCD).

Two major Polish institutions, the universities of Warsaw and Wroclaw have joined forces to form PLERCIM, and the new body has become a member of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.

The European Research Council was inundated with around three times the expected number of applications for its first ever call for proposals, which closed last week.

The fragmentation of the venture capital market is hampering Europe’s tech industry, says Science|Business editor Richard L. Hudson