R&D News

President of Spain’s National Research Council wants basic science to get a larger share of Horizon Europe’s budget

Proposals to protect UK science from the dampening effects of Brexit include new agency to fund breakthrough research, a space council and a points-based visa system to attract scientific talent

A quarter of applicants to the European Innovation Council Accelerator like the idea of the EU investing in their companies, with strongest interest from Spain and Israel

Nobel prize-winning scientist Harald zur Hausen steps down as chair, citing personal reasons. He is replaced by Walter Ricciardi. Bettina Ryll, founder of a patients’ group that has transformed access to novel skin cancer treatments, joins the board

Slim chances for MEP Dan Nica to become Romania’s next EU commissioner for transport

Call for bigger budgets for the European Research Council and culture-related research comes ahead of rocky budget negotiations

Author of government report on Brexit contingency planning for science says UK will need new research funding body, an immigration policy overhaul and money for a wide ‘talent hunt’ if country crashes out of EU

Chair of UK parliament’s science committee, Norman Lamb, predicts UK will support entry to the next EU research programme, ‘almost at any cost, almost whatever the terms’

EU research programme needs simpler rules for paying staff costs, while payments to SMEs are a major source of error and need additional checks

An EU-wide coalition of cities and regions urges commissioner-designate Elisa Ferreira to defend cohesion policy