R&D News

An upgrade sees the country get same rights as non-EU members including Norway and Iceland to apply for any Horizon 2020 grants

Aalto has succeeded exceedingly well in obtaining funding from the EU framework programme

EU financing programmes for SMEs are growing fast – but will they fix what really ails the European system of raising money for small companies? A Science|Business Network roundtable debates

The EU research department will give a seal of approval to high quality proposals that fail to secure grants from the Horizon 2020 SME competition.

In a large (€30 Million) H2020-supported collaborative project, academia joins forces with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), large industry, contract research organisations (CROs) and regulatory bodies to achieve a paradigm shift in toxicology towards a more efficient and animal-free chemical safety assessment.

Research lobbyists gathered in Brussels to tell the European Commission what they like and what is niggling them about the €77B research programme to date

The chance of winning a research grant is stuck between 12% and 14%, with many excellent proposals being rejected, Robert-Jan Smits told MEPs this week

Head of LERU rails against ‘tiresome and recurrent attempts’ to cut the Horizon 2020 research budget

EU membership is overwhelmingly positive for our institutes say university heads, as new campaign to protect £1.2B per annum of European research funding gets into gear this week

EU Research Commissioner, in Science|Business interview, calls for open discussion of his proposal to create an EIC