R&D News

Just over a year after its launch, academics and business leaders gave their verdict on the EU’s €80B research programme at a Science|Business conference.

With time running out to reverse Horizon 2020 cuts, UK universities take their fight to the EU’s doorstep

With most applications failing to pass the initial quality criteria, the Future and Emerging Technologies FET Open scheme has an overall success rate of only four per cent

Companies looking for funding in the first two calls for public-private partnerships under the Key Enabling Technologies programme represent more than 50 per cent of total applications. Of these, 30 per cent come from SMEs

Following its launch in 2014, the instrument quickly became very popular among European SMEs, and the Commission has been flooded with applications. Sadly, success rates are low, ranging from 6 to 10 per cent

Tibor Navracsics speaks to Science|Business on how he’d spend money from the EU’s €315 billion investment fund

Average success rates have fallen – but applications are being reviewed faster, Commission details at Science|Business conference

A Science|Business Network Brief

Speaking at the Science|Business Horizon 2020 conference, Tibor Navracsics defends controversial plans to tap the EU innovation budget, and spoke on the importance of Marie Curie grants for researchers

Carlos Moedas met the great and good of British science this week, delivering a speech at the Royal Society in which he called on researchers to support UK membership of the EU.