R&D News

As debate rages over European control of sensitive technologies, Germany’s parliamentary state secretary Thomas Rachel says three EU neighbours are ‘important partners'

Evolving plan for Horizon Europe is caught up in fierce debate over whether EU should block its closest neighbours from strategic technology research

Member states have until the end of April to fine tune and adapt plans to fit with EU climate goals. But will bids to spend money on roads and gas pipelines support a green recovery?

After a three-year pilot phase, the EIC emerges fully formed, with €1.5B to invest in innovation this year and calls for proposals launching today

Dominic Cummings, former chief aide to prime minister Boris Johnson, sets out his vision for £800M Advanced Research and Invention Agency

German MEP Niklas Nienass says the drive for technological independence ‘goes too far’ and will ‘shed a poor light on the EU’

After complaints about unequal access to leaked Horizon Europe draft programmes, the European Commission has started to publish some of them in a ‘transparency exercise’. The final rubber-stamped versions will appear early in May

Researchers point to higher funding for the sector in Germany, as key infrastructure to translate world class research is still missing in the UK

The EU has made significant investments in research infrastructures. It now needs more and better technology infrastructures, to help innovations reach the market and scale up, say experts

Collaboration is in the DNA of universities and the default working principle in science is openness. But global relations should be reciprocal, says the European University Association