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Research lobbyists gathered in Brussels to tell the European Commission what they like and what is niggling them about the €77B research programme to date

The chance of winning a research grant is stuck between 12% and 14%, with many excellent proposals being rejected, Robert-Jan Smits told MEPs this week

Head of LERU rails against ‘tiresome and recurrent attempts’ to cut the Horizon 2020 research budget

EU membership is overwhelmingly positive for our institutes say university heads, as new campaign to protect £1.2B per annum of European research funding gets into gear this week

EU Research Commissioner, in Science|Business interview, calls for open discussion of his proposal to create an EIC

The EU Commission is setting up a new science advice scheme. Before recruiting experts, it should specify the goals and methodology, says Martin Kowarsch, Head of Scientific Assessments, Ethics and Public Policy at Germany’s MCC climate change research institute

Greece’s research base is crumbling and the brightest minds brain draining away, many warn. Science|Business talks to two representative researchers about what should be done

It’s getting harder to win EU research money, as the application ‘avalanche’ keeps on rolling

The Research Commissioner wants to set up a European Innovation Council to fund excellent innovators, in the same way as the European Research Council backs excellent scientists

2-stage reviews, an emphasis on ‘impact’, are among steps now underway, says EU research chief Smits