The country’s low number of PhDs and unattractive academic career pathways has left it struggling to replace retiring academics and is holding back its research performance

A new research commissioner, a staff reshuffle at the Commission and a potential breakthrough in the long-running stalemate over UK association to Horizon Europe are on the cards

Move comes after revelation that EU cash was flowing to Chinese telecoms giant’s European subsidiaries despite it recently being labelled 'high risk' by Brussels

A report from a recent conference looking at the impact of war one year on, calls for measures to protect science systems in times of crisis - starting with Ukraine

Some university heads are saying the country should follow the French model of consolidation after the only university to have featured in the research-focused ranking drops out

Spanish presidency of the EU Council has held talks on the final three years of Horizon Europe, as policymakers start to set outlines for the successor seven-year research framework programme

In Horizon Europe, China is barred from some calls, but welcomed on others. Despite rising geopolitical tensions, scientific collaboration is still happening – but not without friction

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology is one of the few cogs in the innovation ecosystem to craft something useful from the EU’s nebulous New European Bauhaus initiative

EU initiatives have increased the number of young researchers and innovators, but without proper career structures and security of employment this talent pool drain could away

OECD halts publication of China’s science statistics citing ‘anomalies’, but a Chinese official says error is partly to blame and it’s being fixed. EU and US statisticians confess confusion