Greater cooperation is needed to address global challenges, but EU bureaucracy and complex rules are undermining scientific partnerships. So will Horizon Europe be more – or less – open to the world?

Eye of the beholder: When it comes to deciding how open research data should be, industry and academia do not have the same vision

Robert-Jan Smits will take up the role of president at the university in March 2019. ‘It’s a kind of homecoming’ he says

The architect of ‘Plan-S’, Robert-Jan Smits, hopes to force a major change in the business model of academic publishers. The effect will be similar to the abolition of mobile phone roaming charges in Europe, he says