Call them what you will: change makers, thought leaders, people who get stuff done. This is the Science|Business guide to those with the most influence over the size and shape of the EU’s next research programme

Commission wants “fast track” action on its proposed Horizon Europe legislation, but many in member states and Parliament balk

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon urges researchers to press their governments for a bigger EU research budget

US officials meeting counterparts in Brussels on next EU research plan, urge more flexibility to make transatlantic research easier - and ask what ‘associate’ partnership would mean

Budget negotiations under way in Brussels will decide which industry-led research partnerships are worth keeping, amid pressure to wind some up

The Commission turned to expert foresight analysis to help it design its next big research programme for the 2020s. Nikos Kastrinos, who led the study, describes how it worked

International stakeholders give their views on what the EU should do to foster international cooperation in research and innovation in Horizon Europe

Fourteen associations plead for a re-focus on researcher-driven projects in next EU research programme

Corporate R&D executives ponder the details in €94.1 billion EU research proposal – and worry the terms may not be welcoming to industry

Economist and adviser Mariana Mazzucato says European Commission should ‘welcome risk and uncertainty’ with new research missions, but the desired outcome must be clear