Slovenian presidency will highlight role science played in COVID-19 crisis, using pandemic momentum to make the case for higher national R&D budgets and to build a consensus on the European Research Area

Research institutes and funding agencies in central and eastern Europe assess policies and strategies to help close the research and innovation divide with the west

EU official says Brussels will ‘weigh up’ country’s access to Horizon Europe scheme after failure of long-running treaty negotiations

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