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With money finally flowing to projects, the next year will be a critical time to lay the foundations for beating cancer, adapting to climate change, saving the oceans and protecting soils

The last six months have seen a flurry of announcements as brain-hungry countries try to lure researchers, entrepreneurs and students

With our handling of critical vaccine and gene technologies, we risk repeating the same disastrous mistakes of nuclear weaponry 75 years ago. Is it too late to learn from history?

Facing COVID-19 and climate challenges, a group of international research leaders is pushing the G7 to create a new framework for precompetitive collaboration

Academics warn ultra-powerful foundation models that can be adapted to a range of tasks risk infecting all AI systems with biases, security flaws and opacity. The EU’s proposed AI act may not be up to mitigating this threat

Decrease is blamed on COVID-19, but 2021 scoreboard underlines Europe’s need to invest more on new technologies to catch up with the US and China, which both boosted R&D spending during the first year of pandemic

The EU should make sure cooperation in research respects human rights and international law, say MEPs. The Commission says institutions based in illegal settlements will continue to be banned from participating in EU-funded projects

Horizon Europe rapporteur Christian Ehler MEP, says freeing up €369M unspent money from the predecessor research programme is a matter of “political will”

While genetic weapons targeting populations and countries are still some way off, security fears over genomics data are growing. But any restrictions could hold back a vital area of medical research

Member states urged to agree a common approach to ‘micro-credentials’ in which they recognise short adult training courses. This is intended to support life long learning and address the skills gap

Researchers say AI models are underused because the data they need is kept hidden for commercial reasons

Emmanuel Macron will use the upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU to lead push to reduce Europe’s reliance on foreign supplies of critical technologies

First impressions of Horizon Europe are in, as the research world gets to grips with the €95.5B research programme.

Deadline: January 24

The strategy, due to be announced in January, will look to strengthen institutional ties, enabling the sharing of resources. The rollout of a European student card recognised on all campuses will provide simplified access to student services