MEPs vote to finalise bloc’s first-ever dedicated programme for military research. Final budget is €5B lower than originally planned

All EU space activities now in a single orbit, in hopes of making Europe a global leader in space

EU officials expected to revise proposal to bar the three non-EU countries from quantum and space R&D, after call for full participation gains wide support. Excluding them would ‘only impact negatively on ourselves in the most unaffordable manner’

Vote marks the end of almost three years of negotiations on the content and budget, but MEPs are still angling for more money

Against the staggering €600B per annum cost of dealing with mental health problems, Horizon 2020 invested a paltry €870M over seven years on research into their causes. Horizon Europe is not promising much more

The Vega supercomputer is the first petascale system to be procured through the EuroHPC Joint undertaking

Trudeau’s government sets out massive spending for research and tech development – but snap election could scupper plans

The EU wants to become an innovation powerhouse. The heads of 33 ‘unicorn’ tech companies have drawn up an eight step plan for getting there and called for funding to put it into action

Small and medium-sized companies can apply for grants of up to €2.5M and direct equity investments of up to €15M in the first calls

Stakeholders call for the establishment of accelerators and incubators in partnership with universities, to forge rural innovation networks across Europe and reduce the EU’s innovation divide