Máire Geoghegan-Quinn appeals to research chiefs Carlos Moedas and Jean-Eric Paquet to keep R&D programme focused on excellence, rather than even spread of winners
Half of the funding in the next EU research programme should be dedicated to combatting climate change, says Jakop Dalunde, Swedish green MEP and shadow rapporteur
Research and innovation in central Europe is held back by the emigration of scientists and engineers. Rather than framing policies around encouraging their permanent return, the EU should help universities establish brain networks, in which modern communications enable scientists in the diaspora to contribute to research at home.
Disagreement over the objectives of the next R&D programme and the criteria for funding research is engaging MEPs as they work on successive drafts of the law
There is still ‘a huge gap’ between outputs of research projects and uptake down on the farm. So how can farmers extract value from €10B the EU proposes to spend on agri-R&D in Horizon Europe?
Romanian MEP Dan Nica, rapporteur on Horizon Europe, wants to make it harder for non-EU scientists to win grants. “We don’t have enough money to send around the world,” he says. Many argue his ideas would damage science
Committee of the Regions throws some weight behind the proposal to use quotas to bridge the west - east research and innovation gap under Horizon Europe
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