Plan to infuse recovery money into green, digital and other research initiatives faces challenge from EU fiscal hardliners

German Research Foundation offers financial support to grantees whose work has been disrupted by COVID-19 lockdowns

New head of the European Defence Agency, Jiří Šedivý, took up the post in the midst of crisis. In a Q&A with Science|Business, he says the pandemic makes cooperation in defence research even more important

With the EU’s revised budget proposal due on Wednesday, new European Defence Agency head Jiří Šedivý says the best response to shrinking national budgets for defence research is to engage in more cost-effective collaborations at EU level  

Prof. Carl-Eric Aubin and his team at TransMedTech Institute rushed to adapt technologies for healthcare workers in as little as three weeks – collaborating internationally

‘Airbus of Batteries’ charges up as EU reaffirms its goal to invest €1B in industry this year, to limit dependence on Chinese imports and deliver green growth  

Horizon 2020 money to fund switching production lines to make medical products, the development of digital tools and studies of pan-European cohorts

Criticism levelled at British politicians who claim to be following the science, while obscuring the range of views and options on how best to tackle the pandemic

Fiscally conservative nations still need to be brought on board to plan that foresees EU-27 raising debt together and paying out to hardest hit regions in grants