Two new vice president have been elected to serve until the end of Framework Programme 7 in 2013

With a strong pipeline of drugs in development, a good flow of venture capital investment and seven IPOs, 2010 was an “exceptional” year, says France Biotech

A multinational database on ageing is first to become a European Research Infrastructure Consortium, a new legal status that will be an important building block of the European Research Area

The body representing Europe’s leading research universities is calling for the separate accounting requirements for Framework Programme projects to be abolished

The European Commission and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have formalised their intention to maintain and further develop their cooperation.

University technology transfer offices in the UK welcome the government's move to extend the existing range of model research agreements, says their representational body PraxisUnico.

Entrepreneurs, investors and industry leaders attending the third annual Science|Business Academic Enterprise Awards (ACES) conference earlier this month called on European politicians and universities to do more to support entrepreneurship on campus and help seed a new generation of world-class technology companies.