R&D News

European Court of Auditors says despite good design, moves to reduce the east-west research and innovation gap in Horizon 2020 cannot make up for a lack of reforms and investment in lagging member states

Ministers sign off joint positions on international cooperation, research assessment, open science and Horizon Europe missions in Luxembourg meeting

Research heavyweights in central and eastern Europe met last week to consider how to improve their performance in EU research funding programmes. At present most applicants from the region are rejected at the first stage of evaluation

The protocols for email and the internet are often maintained by overstretched volunteers, causing security holes when they fail. Berlin wants more support for this behind-the-scenes technology.

Draft copy of the agreement seen by Science|Business sets out plan to cut down on the use of a narrow set of journal and publication metrics

The upcoming European Innovation Agenda aims to make Europe a deep tech start-up leader. The Commission hopes to adopt it in July

The first 63 regions, seven cities and four countries are selected for the Partnerships for Regional Innovation pilot, as part of the upcoming European Innovation Agenda

Sources say Jean-Eric Paquet is to leave Commission’s directorate for research and innovation - but official appointment could take months

The government hopes public and private investments in new centre will help Bulgaria reverse brain drain and make the capital city Sofia a top destination for computer scientists

Following last week’s leak of European Commission first drafts of 2023-24 programmes, more are disclosed. They include a €500K plan to set up a European Start-up Scoreboard