Riken’s push abroad follows period of stagnant science funding at home. Our scientists “are inward-looking. This tendency has to change,” says Riken president

Ambassadors for Japan, US, Canada and others want more information on possible collaboration with the EU’s planned €94.1B R&D programme. R&D commissioner Carlos Moedas is preparing to brief them

Decision on how to organise synergies between EU’s research pot and other funding streams to be kicked down the road for the Romanian presidency to settle

Research commercialisation body sees proposed funding cut in favour of R&D aid for eastern member states. ‘We don’t want the research programme to reflect Trump-like policies,’ says Christian Ehler, rapporteur, as door is left open to UK

Disagreements over European Innovation Council and industry partnerships are holding up an outline deal. Research ministers aim to seal blueprint for science programme next week

We need to increase our ambitions for the Horizon Europe research programme, or risk falling behind the US and Asia, says Markus J. Beyrer, director-general of industry association BusinessEurope

EU’s poorest country is the exemplar for why national systems need fixing before there is any preferential treatment in Horizon Europe. As things stand, more funding for R&D in Romania would be ‘money thrown out of the window’

As European Parliament committee prepares to meet, its draft legislation would take a different tack from the Commission’s original plan

Šefčović backs renewal of €1.33B fuel cells project and predicts more funding for the technology 

Draft text of UK-EU agreement was approved by May’s Cabinet  – but for research and innovation the impact will be reduced by special provisions