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

Vote marks the end of almost three years of negotiations on the content and budget, but MEPs are still angling for more money

Against the staggering €600B per annum cost of dealing with mental health problems, Horizon 2020 invested a paltry €870M over seven years on research into their causes. Horizon Europe is not promising much more

After three years of negotiations, vote in the industry and research committee of the European Parliament pushes Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and the European Defence Fund closer to reality

Small and medium-sized companies can apply for grants of up to €2.5M and direct equity investments of up to €15M in the first calls

Horizon Europe projects will aim to develop new tools and techniques to prevent cyberattacks, fight crime and terrorism, and tighten border controls

Government comes up with 11th hour funds to help meet association cost after lobbying effort by science leaders. But critics still call plan ‘very opaque’, and say it isn’t enough

After the government pulls global research funds, top researchers hit back at prospect that participation in Horizon Europe will come from domestic R&D budget