A report from a recent conference looking at the impact of war one year on, calls for measures to protect science systems in times of crisis - starting with Ukraine

Some university heads are saying the country should follow the French model of consolidation after the only university to have featured in the research-focused ranking drops out

Spanish presidency of the EU Council has held talks on the final three years of Horizon Europe, as policymakers start to set outlines for the successor seven-year research framework programme

In Horizon Europe, China is barred from some calls, but welcomed on others. Despite rising geopolitical tensions, scientific collaboration is still happening – but not without friction

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology is one of the few cogs in the innovation ecosystem to craft something useful from the EU’s nebulous New European Bauhaus initiative

EU initiatives have increased the number of young researchers and innovators, but without proper career structures and security of employment this talent pool drain could away

OECD halts publication of China’s science statistics citing ‘anomalies’, but a Chinese official says error is partly to blame and it’s being fixed. EU and US statisticians confess confusion

In the latest call, researchers based in Spain won 12 of 66 grants awarded to shape up basic research for commercialisation. This is more evidence of a resurgence of Spanish science, which is now number three in the Horizon Europe funding table

Following a fact-finding mission to Kyiv – that included retreating to the bomb shelter at the Ministry of Education and Science during a missile attack - researchers are appealing to the EU to scale-up its support for scientists in Ukraine

Since March 2020 the European Commission has been making moves to improve Europe’s industrial competitiveness. Experts say things are moving in the right direction, but warn there is not enough money or enough focus on scaling up