MEPs vote through joint position on €8B supercomputing collaboration, aiming to ensure more balance between small and large partners. This paves the way for 11 other big research partnerships in Horizon Europe

Agenda for first meeting of research ministers since last September – and first since member states approved Horizon Europe legislation - does not feature discussion of repeated delays in fully launching the programme

Networking is a prerequisite for finding partners when bidding for Horizon Europe funding. It should be a cornerstone of the renewed single market for research, says Paulo Ferrão, president of COST, as the association celebrates its 50th anniversary

Revised plan maintains exclusions for non-EU countries in projects that touch on “sensitive Union assets”

European Innovation Council Pathfinder call extended by a week due to technical issues – and it’s not the first case of IT glitches blocking submission of research proposals this year

New global science blueprint adds caveats to previous commitment to open research, especially in relation to China, but also looks to revitalise research collaboration with US and other countries with ‘shared values’

Universities fear they will be cut out of Horizon Europe. Long-running treaty saga carries ‘the threat of unequal treatment and increasing isolation’ for Swiss research, they say

With a struggle to attract foreign talent due to low salaries, and pandemic-driven economic crisis sparking cuts in national science budgets, researchers in EU13 countries are puzzling over how to tap new research programme to strengthen R&D systems

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, president of Europe’s top science agency, discusses the challenges facing Europe’s top science agency in the aftermath of an EU budget that was less ambitious than hoped for

Researchers grow frustrated at looming funding gap, with European Commission putting back publication of detailed calls to the end of May. Some commentators suggest the delay is down to row over excluding UK, Israel and Switzerland from space and quantum R&D