R&D News

We need to increase our ambitions for the Horizon Europe research programme, or risk falling behind the US and Asia, says Markus J. Beyrer, director-general of industry association BusinessEurope

A long-debated research and education reform aims to pave the way for universities to become international R&D players

EU’s poorest country is the exemplar for why national systems need fixing before there is any preferential treatment in Horizon Europe. As things stand, more funding for R&D in Romania would be ‘money thrown out of the window’

As European Parliament committee prepares to meet, its draft legislation would take a different tack from the Commission’s original plan

As UK Parliament debates Brexit plan, researchers around Europe ponder a few key questions that would affect their work 

Richard Lochhead says Brexit will leave Scotland ‘in a much worse situation than where we started’

Draft text of UK-EU agreement was approved by May’s Cabinet  – but for research and innovation the impact will be reduced by special provisions

The legal text of a Brexit deal has been agreed between the EU and the UK, and accepted by Theresa May's Cabinet. Here is a summary of the bigger picture in EU-UK relations for research and innovation 

’G6’ leaders want more EU money for scientific research and infrastructure, and stronger partnerships between scientists and industry