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The EU’s new funding plan promises a big drop in paperwork and bureaucracy for grant applicants and recipients - but the details will matter

A two-year political fight formally began in Brussels on 30 November with the publication of the European Commission’s plan for Horizon 2020, its omnibus R&D programme. It promises less red tape, broader benefits, and more jobs and economic growth – but is it too expensive?

The promise of accelerated approvals and higher pricing has persuaded pharmaceutical companies to break the deadlock in antibiotic R&D

There’s plenty of (empirical) evidence to justify specific measures to put women scientists on an equal footing with their male counterparts. A Gender Summit next week must make an unambiguous call for Horizon 2020 to embrace this view

The European Commission’s DG Research director-general Robert-Jan Smits is calling on the European Parliament to help simplify regulations and make the system for public private partnerships more user-friendly

As it passes its first birthday, a checklist of progress to date in the formation of the Innovation Union, a key element of the Europe 2020 strategy for jobs and growth, was published by the Commission

As he bows out as the founding chair of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, Martin Schuurmans is happy with what has been achieved, but says it should not have taken so long

Research money should promote excellence not cohesion, says Peter Frankenberg, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts for the German state of Baden-Württemberg.