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As Science|Business this month marks the 1000th issue of its newsletter, we republish our investigation into how and why the ERC lost its then-president in a 2020 fight over the agency’s mission. After an extensive search, molecular biologist Maria Leptin was named president in 2021. This article first appeared 29 October 2020.

Following the suspension of the country’s parliament, the Commission says contingency measures are being considered so that Tunisian researchers can still participate

Following Eric Lander’s resignation over accusations of workplace bullying, his joint roles are split between two temporary replacements, with ex-NIH head Francis Collins brought out of retirement to shore up science policy

A year after announcing its ambition to ensure secure internet connections from space, the European Commission says it will provide industry with €2.4B to spur development of Europe’s own ultra-secure quantum-encrypted broadband system to do this

As Science|Business celebrates the 1,000th issue of its newsletter this month, we republish the story below from June 2020, explaining how the Romanian government scrambled to mend relations between the EU-funded laser research facility in Bucharest and counterparts in Hungary and the Czech Republic. Some progress was made last year, but the saga is not over yet

With association still uncertain, the UK is on a bilateral R&D collaboration signing spree. Meanwhile, countries outside Europe are invited to the Horizon Europe table

As Antoine Petit begins his second term at the top of France’s biggest research organisation, he details an ambitious vision to strengthen French science

Reacting to the Science|Business white paper assessing the first year of Horizon Europe, Jean-Eric Paquet confirmed the Commission is working on finetuning the next set of calls for 2023 and 2024

New round of €150K European Research Council proof of concept grant winners have no guarantee they will get the money – from either the EU or the UK government

As Science|Business celebrates the 1000th issue of its newsletter this month, we republish this story from October 2013 by Joanne O’Dea, who found out some Horizon 2020 draft work programmes were circulating among a select group of research institutes and universities before the European Commission had published them

Research can’t be ‘dissociated’ from politics, says Frédérique Vidal.  But a senior French scientist says  keeping the UK and Switzerland out ‘punishes all of us’

At the Science|Business Annual Conference, US and EU officials say they’re planning to discuss further research agreements in climate, health, digital and other fields. After Trump, this is, ‘a real turning of the page’

The European Innovation Council’s work programme is finally out. There will be equity investments of up to €15M-plus for start-ups, but EIC is about to lose full control over this fund and some MEPs are unhappy