Ministers sign off joint positions on international cooperation, research assessment, open science and Horizon Europe missions in Luxembourg meeting

Next year’s budget proposed by the European Commission this week foresees an increase of €100M for the research and innovation programme

Academics mourn losing principal investigator status in the teams they created. The failure to agree UK association has left consortia scrambling to rescue projects, resulting in months of paperwork and delays

Science minister George Freeman visited Brussels on Wednesday in a last-ditch attempt to end the 18-month deadlock over association to the EU research programme

EU’s new innovation fund has had a rocky start under Horizon Europe. MEP Christian Ehler is pushing to get debate out in the open and make the Commission sort out the problem

Research heavyweights in central and eastern Europe met last week to consider how to improve their performance in EU research funding programmes. At present most applicants from the region are rejected at the first stage of evaluation

Work on the UK’s Plan B alternative is intensifying as patience with Brussels wanes. The plan is set to include more money for SMEs and innovation, and to tilt research collaboration away from the EU

€72B of spending designated as climate related did not qualify to be labelled green, according to the European Court of Auditors

Years in the making, the R&I mission is finally spurring action on the ground to help 112 cities transition to net zero by 2030

Talks with Japan, South Korea, Canada and New Zealand have all made progress, EU lead negotiator Signe Ratso tells Science|Business. But association is likely only to be partial, and the UK and Switzerland remain shut out of the research programme