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“It’s time to get down to business,” said EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Máire Geoghegan Quinn, launching the first calls under the EU seven year flagship R&D programme, Horizon 2020.

Commission launches call for independent evaluators to single out the best research and innovation proposals

As negotiations come to an end and attention shifts to the finer details, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 draft programmes. This week: Information and Communication Technologies

Looking forward to the launch of one of the world’s largest public R&D programmes, Science|Business interviews Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the EU Commissioner at the centre of formulating Horizon 2020 and steering it over the finishing line

In times of shrinking public spending, the 8th Framework Programme offers more money for R&D. With this show of faith comes an explicit new mandate for universities: Be engines of growth

National governments give the final seal of approval to the EU’s budget for 2014-2020. Now, the first calls for Horizon 2020 grants will go live next week

First EU programme designed specifically for SMEs will promote entrepreneurship, ease access to finance and increase the EU’s GDP by €1.1B per annum, says the Commission

Commission releases working documents for 2014-2015

Researchers can still operate by the rules and norms of science, but under Horizon 2020 they have – with the exception of the ERC - no autonomy to decide what science they do and how the results are applied, says Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer, President of the Leibniz Association

As negotiations come to an end and attention shifts to the finer details, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 draft programmes. This week: Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation