Mauro Ferrari says scientists should get rid of ‘disciplinary goggles’ and combine expertise to create new fields of scientific research

Researchers will get funding to look into business opportunities, patent discoveries or build prototypes

Changes are part of plans for a smooth transition to the next EU research programme

Institutions in Germany, UK, France and the Netherlands will host more than half of the winners of €2 million consolidator grants for mid-career academics

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of the European Research Council who became a forceful advocate for science in Brussels, tells researchers to stay scrappy. ‘There are more battles to fight,’ he says  

Winners in the European Research Council’s latest round of synergy grants describe the hurdles they faced and what it takes for researchers in central and eastern Europe to win these prestigious awards

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

Peter Ratcliffe is the seventh ERC-funded researcher to receive the award