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Officials say Commission is divided on loaded question of excluding close EU partners UK and Israel from quantum and space research - and voice concerns at how the row is delaying rollout of Horizon Europe

Pharmaceutical strategy aims to boost EU drug discovery and prevent medicines shortages. Some MEPs want to go further and force companies to invest more of their profits in R&D and agree to flexible IP rules. Others say that is ‘tone deaf’

EU official says Brussels will ‘weigh up’ country’s access to Horizon Europe scheme after failure of long-running treaty negotiations

MEPs vote through joint position on €8B supercomputing collaboration, aiming to ensure more balance between small and large partners. This paves the way for 11 other big research partnerships in Horizon Europe

Universities and research institutes urge science publishers to stop imposing embargoes on manuscripts funded by agencies that make open access a condition of public grants

Networking is a prerequisite for finding partners when bidding for Horizon Europe funding. It should be a cornerstone of the renewed single market for research, says Paulo Ferrão, president of COST, as the association celebrates its 50th anniversary

Pledge to support domestic chip fabs as EU’s dependence on Asian supplies of these essential components hits production of finished goods. Meanwhile, Brussels advances battery project in another bid restore technology independencechip

European Innovation Council Pathfinder call extended by a week due to technical issues – and it’s not the first case of IT glitches blocking submission of research proposals this year

New legislation aims to help polluting industries that are the foundation stone of the EU do their bit in support of 2050 carbon neutrality plan

The first calls launched in March. Now, the money can start flowing

New global science blueprint adds caveats to previous commitment to open research, especially in relation to China, but also looks to revitalise research collaboration with US and other countries with ‘shared values’

Parliament calls for plan to make decarbonised hydrogen production commercially competitive. But there is disagreement on using hydrogen from fossil fuel sources to promote infrastructure and market development in the meantime

EU officials risk ‘drowning’ the alliances in ‘too many demands and a push towards enlargement’, while red tape blocks agreement on joint degrees

Universities fear they will be cut out of Horizon Europe. Long-running treaty saga carries ‘the threat of unequal treatment and increasing isolation’ for Swiss research, they say

With a struggle to attract foreign talent due to low salaries, and pandemic-driven economic crisis sparking cuts in national science budgets, researchers in EU13 countries are puzzling over how to tap new research programme to strengthen R&D systems