R&D News

Working with countries in Africa, the EU has fostered innovation that is making an important contribution to the fight against AIDS. To build on this, the new Africa-EU partnership now taking shape needs more ambitious goals

Not all aspects of international science cooperation are to the liking of researchers and policy makers in central and eastern Europe. They want to see the innovation gap fixed before the EU spends more money abroad

New Science|Business poll reveals growing appetite for global research partnerships but finds persistent funding and legal barriers can stand in the way

Celebrated science donor re-emerges on the international scene in a new form with plans to open labs in Israel, Europe and the US

Labour and Liberal Democrats put green policies at the centre of their pitch. Both pledge to invest 3% of GDP on research and to spread R&D funding around the regions

President of the Royal Society tells candidates from the three biggest parties of need to fix the damage caused by 3.5 years of uncertainty

EU institutions strike late-night deal on €13.5B budget for research in 2020 -  but ’27 Margaret Thatchers around the table’  are considering budget cuts from 2021

As ITRE chair Adina-Ioana Vălean departs to become transport commissioner, European Parliament sources say her successor is likely to be one of three Romanian party colleagues

Negotiations on a ‘Global Partnership’ on artificial intelligence would have OECD, Montreal and Paris as starting points for policy discussions – but other organisations may also emerge

Dropping research from the title of incoming R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel is a worrying sign Brussels is pursuing commercialisation at the expense of basic science, says Svein Stølen, rector of Oslo University