R&D News

Lobbyists feared an end to programme – but budget and activities largely to continue in next multi-year EU budget

MEPs and research lobby groups say €100 billion is good but not enough. Parliament ‘will fight’ for €120 billion.

European Commission sets itself several complex tasks in the next research programme, such as bridging the ingrained east-west divide and growing bigger tech companies

Lobbyists mount last, urgent blitz ahead of Wednesday’s budget announcement

European Commission plans 70% increase in funding amid rising concern over Chinese and US dominance in the field

Jyrki Katainen tells MEPs they will retain scrutiny over the InvestEU umbrella fund, under which the Commission is proposing to centralise all EU investment schemes

Draft plans for the next EU research programme include lots of hot-button issues – from terrorism to healthcare inequality – that could attract broader political support

Draft paper outlines how ‘focused, simpler and more transparent’ entity would merge or replace some 40 financial instruments

With military R&D on the rise everywhere, US Office of Naval Research plans more basic research grants and scouting offices around the world

Time for an urgent rethink on new copyright rules, say 23 research groups