The Commission president set out her vision for a new EU military-industrial-academic complex in a speech to MEPs on Wednesday

The proposed directive on Transparency of Interest Representation, designed to prevent malign foreign lobbying, could force universities to register any foreign-funded research, observers fear

The German Academic Exchange Service has published recommendations for universities when dealing with China. Its real contribution, however, is an uncompromising analysis of Germany’s unequal relationship with China and its implications

Ottawa’s new policy creates the West’s most detailed - and public - security procedures for grant applicants, potentially affecting ‘everything under the sun.’  Universities are studying the likely impact

Europe remains ‘fairly open’ but there is a feeling that ‘things could get much more closed’, says Thomas Jørgensen of the European University Association

Moves to ramp up security should not interfere with international collaboration, Commission told as it drafts recommendations for tackling foreign interference

Leading AI expert Holger Hoos says Europe needs it own Manhattan Project to create a leading AI system and avoid dependence on the US or China. Other experts are supportive, but the cost and politics of such a project are tricky

As 2023 draws to a close, we have put together a list of the stories that shaped research and innovation policy over the past 12 months

As things wind down to the dissolution of the European Parliament and elections next June, Belgium has put translation and commercialisation of research results and international cooperation on the agenda for a presidency focussed on technology sovereignty

Openness and collaboration are the heart of world class science, but as the threat of foreign interference at universities and research organisations ramps up, the Commission wants to agree new restrictions