R&D News

New legislation aims to help polluting industries that are the foundation stone of the EU do their bit in support of 2050 carbon neutrality plan

New global science blueprint adds caveats to previous commitment to open research, especially in relation to China, but also looks to revitalise research collaboration with US and other countries with ‘shared values’

Parliament calls for plan to make decarbonised hydrogen production commercially competitive. But there is disagreement on using hydrogen from fossil fuel sources to promote infrastructure and market development in the meantime

With a struggle to attract foreign talent due to low salaries, and pandemic-driven economic crisis sparking cuts in national science budgets, researchers in EU13 countries are puzzling over how to tap new research programme to strengthen R&D systems

A new report by Euroseeds, and the European Commission’s overt support, gives more ammunition for advocates of gene editing in crops

In one of the biggest spending plans of its kind in the world, the government commits to develop country’s first quantum computer

Romania was to be a founding member of the new consortium, but a long-standing political wrangle over equipment contract and operational autonomy has now prompted the Czech Republic and Hungary to move forward alone

Commission must explain how it can achieve technological autonomy without a clearer plan, and a stricter timeline for launching new technologies by 2030, MEPs say

Pan-EU tracking is needed to measure progress of the Commission’s grand plan to make Europe an innovation  powerhouse, says start-up group

New applicants will now have to wait until October to have full bids for funding assessed by the EU’s start-up fund. Entrepreneurs are not happy