Details emerge on who will be on Ekaterina Zaharieva’s team, but last minute tweaks are expected ahead of official confirmation

Industry endorses the idea of two new councils, to oversee industrial competitiveness and technology, and European societal challenges

The existing system is not producing radical breakthroughs – but FP10 could change that, according to a high-level report

The chair of the Commission’s FP10 advisory group says each part of the next Framework Programme should be run by independent councils

Internal memo details how Ursula von der Leyen wants to restructure EU science and technology programmes

Europe needs to be a magnet for investment in innovation, not just an attractive place to do research

At an informal meeting in Belgium, EU research ministers and research commissioner Iliana Ivanova agreed on the need to safeguard research funding, after €2.1 billion was cut from Horizon Europe

The next research and innovation programme should be designed to dovetail into other EU funding streams, says Erik Huizer, chief executive of the pan-European research and education data network GÉANT

The early planning stage of the next EU research programme will be pivotal in ensuring it enables data-intensive research and amplifies responsible AI development and the sustainable use of AI in research and innovation

Otmar Wiestler wants the next framework programme to include EU-wide efforts to take industrial leadership in new technologies. He’s also not in “fundamental opposition” to military dual use research calls in Horizon Europe’s successor