Voluntary initiatives have failed to ensure mutual recognition of qualifications across the EU. MEPs should be given greater authority to set quality standards and promote seamless mobility of students, says Sabine Verheyen MEP, chair of the education committee

Five years on from the launch of Plan S, global pressure for equitable, open and transparent scientific publishing is gathering a fresh head of steam

Two wars hung over this year’s get-together of scientists and politicians in Berlin. But there was still plenty of excitement, and trepidation, about new breakthroughs in AI, solar energy, and transatlantic science

The dean of the geodesy faculty and a fellow professor are accused of stealing from projects funded through the European Regional Development Fund and the EU Solidarity Fund

French MEP Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield has a ‘creative’ answer to the current stalemate, saying rule of law concerns could be circumvented by handing the management of EU research funding to an independent body

Drawn by the generous terms of NATO’s Diana accelerator and mobilised by the war in Ukraine, start-ups in central and eastern Europe are opening up to adapting their technologies for use in defence

Iliana Ivanova says it’s her ‘personal priority’ to secure more association deals with non-EU countries in the coming months

European Commission research suggests awarding grants to early career researchers and involving industry is good for innovation

The head of a biotech start-up tells how the war has upended his company and the wider Israeli ecosystem. The normal rules of capitalism have been relaxed, with rival start-ups and venture capitalists now helping each other out

Europe’s open access advocates set out a vision for system-level reform to make scientific publishing faster, more open and scholar-led