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

Leading academics defend EU research missions and say productivity growth should not be the direct goal of European investment in research and innovation

With its misguided ‘missions’ and ‘bottom-up’ funding, Horizon Europe isn’t delivering the economic prosperity and industrial competitiveness Europe needs, argues a Washington think-tanker

Over 40 years, the EU’s flagship research programmes have drifted from their early focus on collaborative, pre-competitive R&D benefiting industry and society. A Swedish expert on the programme calls for a rethink

The EDCTP partnership that sponsors clinical trials in Africa is a flagship of the EU’s health research effort. But as it reaches its 20 anniversary the pending pharmaceutical legislation and budget worries dog its future, warns Maria da Graça Carvalho MEP