Sponsoring a start-up accelerator is an increasingly popular route for large companies to tap into the latest technologies and get preferential rights to in-license potential products

European University Association offers 18 recommendations for improving €26.2B EU education fund in half-way evaluation. The biggest administrative improvement would be fixing long-running problems with IT

The ERA Forum is rushing to elaborate and revise countless technical documents in preparation for the 2025-27 cycle. A strategic approach to guaranteeing the fifth freedom - of free movement of researchers, scientific knowledge and technology - is at risk of getting lost in this avalanche of detail

New leadership introduces changes in the Commission’s research directorate, as it gears up to start work on the proposal for the next seven-year EU framework research programme

MEP draws on parliament’s success in securing an extra €85M for research in 2024, asking stakeholders to make a bigger budget for Framework programme 10 a priority in their national campaigns for the 2024 European elections

China and the US have dialled down tensions, leading to a new agreement on alternative energy, and a promise to work together on the risks of artificial intelligence

As things stand, the country’s national contact points have to juggle their day jobs with helping researchers to win funding. Creating a professional network is now on the cards, but it may take some time

Policymakers are partly flying blind, with existing analysis fractured across an alphabet soup of different agencies. An overarching entity could underpin a more coherent science and technology strategy, but will need money from Congress to get off the ground

Over 40 years, the EU’s flagship research programmes have drifted from their early focus on collaborative, pre-competitive R&D benefiting industry and society. A Swedish expert on the programme calls for a rethink

The nuclear fusion project at ITER will be cut by €120M, while basic science and health and climate R&D get a bigger than expected top up in 2024