EU/UK ‘trade and cooperation agreement’ creates path for UK to keep a close science relationship with Brussels, but the terms on which the UK joins Horizon Europe are yet to be agreed - and Erasmus student exchange ends

A miserable year, we all agree. But there were a few positive developments worth recalling…

Researchers react to the €95.5B deal, reflect on how we got here, and look ahead to the rollout of the programme and how it can achieve maximum impact

Christian Ehler says the EU’s long-sought science spending deal ’saved the political face of Europe’

Swiss MPs back spending for ‘the champion’s league’ of EU science and innovation

MEPs say the new budget signals a shifting of priorities away from agriculture and cohesion and towards research and innovation

Digital Europe will fill the gap between research and deployment, investing €2.2B in supercomputing and €2B in artificial intelligence

Marathon haggle between Parliament and Council sees budget top-up for European Research Council, creative industries, and research fellowships that fall short of campaigners’ hopes

Henrik C. Wegener, Rector of the University of Copenhagen, adds his voice to the chorus of leading science voices who are calling for excellent research to get its fair share of the extra €4B agreed for Horizon Europe

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology awards its best innovators as director Martin Kern tells Science|Business about future plans in the upcoming Horizon Europe research programme