Disagreements over European Innovation Council and industry partnerships are holding up an outline deal. Research ministers aim to seal blueprint for science programme next week

We need to increase our ambitions for the Horizon Europe research programme, or risk falling behind the US and Asia, says Markus J. Beyrer, director-general of industry association BusinessEurope

EU’s poorest country is the exemplar for why national systems need fixing before there is any preferential treatment in Horizon Europe. As things stand, more funding for R&D in Romania would be ‘money thrown out of the window’

As European Parliament committee prepares to meet, its draft legislation would take a different tack from the Commission’s original plan

Šefčović backs renewal of €1.33B fuel cells project and predicts more funding for the technology 

Draft text of UK-EU agreement was approved by May’s Cabinet  – but for research and innovation the impact will be reduced by special provisions

’G6’ leaders want more EU money for scientific research and infrastructure, and stronger partnerships between scientists and industry

European Commission accepts ‘limited impact’ of certificate scheme intended to help researchers who fail to make the cut for Horizon 2020 grants get funding from other sources

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn appeals to research chiefs Carlos Moedas and Jean-Eric Paquet to keep R&D programme focused on excellence, rather than even spread of winners

Half of the funding in the next EU research programme should be dedicated to combatting climate change, says Jakop Dalunde, Swedish green MEP and shadow rapporteur