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‘It is my hope that we can work together and harmonise our AI policies,’ Robin Kelly tells MEPS. ‘It is vital that democratic nations are the ones that shape this new technology’

EU commissioner urges member states to route more money from structural funds into R&D, and add firepower by using this in combination with pandemic recovery fund and Horizon Europe

COVID-19 has brought science to the forefront of policymaking around the world, and science advisers have become minor celebrities. Now, the public demands the experts are consulted, says Canada’s chief science adviser

EU research commissioner vows to avoid interruptions in the flow of EU R&D funding amid delayed rollout, as she outlines plan for stricter rules for international research cooperation, to reflect ‘geopolitical changes’

Government says newly christened Advanced Research & Invention Agency will have ‘a much higher tolerance for failure than is normal’

Money will fund sequencing to pick up dangerous variants and trials network to test updated vaccines. Vaccines approvals will be eased and supply contracts modified. The initiatives are a dry run for the proposed Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority   

The new government promises to increase R&D spending to 2% of GDP. Researchers say this needs to be accompanied by reforms. There should be more competitive calls and a new independent council to increase transparency and reduce political interference, they say

New fund will lure researchers from abroad, as part of a broad strategy to develop the country’s hydrogen energy sector

European Commission promised to create SME envoy position, but 11 months have passed with no action, say MEPs Henna Virkkunen and Jens Gieseke

Emmanuel Macron lays out a €1.8B strategy to slingshot the country into becoming a quantum powerhouse, as Germany draws up a €2B programme of quantum research as part of its pandemic recovery plan

As the European Commission cranks up its work on the new European Research Area, regions are pushing for greater influence in the design process

Government will establish a new independent authority to monitor state subsidy decisions, but the big question is how far the UK system will diverge from EU rules

European Commission calls in experts to help revamp the 20-year-old plan to coordinate national R&D policies and create a single market for research

Vast, multi-pronged push to tackle the EU’s second biggest killer will be underpinned by moves to promote sharing of anonymised patient data and the creation of a network of 27 national cancer centres  

As its successor programme is finalised and the east-west innovation gap persists, the European Court of Auditors is looking to see what - if anything - the €1B spent on Widening from 2014 - 2020 has delivered