R&D News

Twelve-person advisory panel will make recommendations on how the new body should function

The European Commission is hoping a new public-private fund of funds can bolster venture capital markets and funnel money to start-ups, while providing competition to the dominant European Investment Fund

Amid condemnations from the US and falling national spending, a fresh initiative to maintain Europe's defence clout is vital, says Nick Witney of the European Council on Foreign Relations and adviser to the European Commission on defence research

EU research programme could recover some of the €2.2B lost last year to European Fund for Strategic Investments

Ideas to boost transatlantic collaboration include opening up of research programmes, access to, and co-funding of research infrastructure, and more open access to data

Scientists should continue to apply for Horizon 2020 grants. Any projects that go on after the UK leaves the EU will be funded from national sources, the UK government says

Fifteen of the top 25 innovators in the world are in Europe, including the top three

EU makes open science the new norm and earmarks €11 million for research on migration. Free availability of data is a response to the post-factual age, Carlos Moedas tells the Euroscience conference in Manchester

UM Cure 2020 is a new European consortium to foster research on metastatic uveal melanoma and identify new treatments for this serious disease.

The new government must negotiate close links to EU R&D programmes, ensure researchers from EU countries can work in the UK and UK nationals can work in the EU - and make good the loss of funding