Research commissioner Mariya Gabriel has linked re-admittance to ESFRI to wider relations between the EU and Switzerland. Some see this as a sign the body is too heavily controlled by the Commission

The move is intended to protect EU money but opposition politicians worry about its impact on Hungarian students

The Commission’s drive to change how research is assessed in Europe is too top down, says German Rectors’ Conference

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act is set to cover many more companies than first expected, loading them with a regulatory burden that could deter investors

Over 250 entrepreneurship courses will be available on a dedicated online platform run by the EU’s innovation agency

Open access means more and more scientific research is free to read. But now there are complaints about ‘massive’ fees that must be paid upfront by authors and claims commercial publishers are making excessive profits

Despite hosting CERN, the country is being excluded from ESFRI because it has not associated to Horizon Europe. Swiss scientists call the decision “unreasonable”

The agency wants to give individual reviewers the power to fund proposals they think are promising, even if other panellists disagree. The aim is to avoid only backing the least controversial applications

Some experts are sceptical about the application of AI to employment practices

Rampant inflation is cutting the purchasing power of grants and undermining innovation. Action is needed to mitigate the effects on projects costed in non-inflationary times