Marc Lemaître’s switch from head of the regional development directorate general to DG Research has raised hopes that synergies between funding programmes will finally be improved

Beyond is a new initiative seeking to create stronger links between investors, accelerators and founders and narrow the gap between mature and emerging start-up ecosystems

There are two new calls in the €900M plan that aims to reduce the innovation gap in Europe

An anthropologist studying conspiracy theories is just the second researcher in the country to win a European Research Council grant, a small step forward as Slovakia struggles to improve its research system

Four years after the government passed the ‘Constitution for Science’, academics continue to debate whether the reforms are having the intended impact

Synergies between the EU’s research programmes and money for research channelled through regional funds should be helping bridge the east-west divide in R&I, but gaps in regulation and lack of know-how on the ground are hindering progress