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European Innovation Council Pathfinder call extended by a week due to technical issues – and it’s not the first case of IT glitches blocking submission of research proposals this year

New legislation aims to help polluting industries that are the foundation stone of the EU do their bit in support of 2050 carbon neutrality plan

New global science blueprint adds caveats to previous commitment to open research, especially in relation to China, but also looks to revitalise research collaboration with US and other countries with ‘shared values’

Parliament calls for plan to make decarbonised hydrogen production commercially competitive. But there is disagreement on using hydrogen from fossil fuel sources to promote infrastructure and market development in the meantime

EU officials risk ‘drowning’ the alliances in ‘too many demands and a push towards enlargement’, while red tape blocks agreement on joint degrees

Universities fear they will be cut out of Horizon Europe. Long-running treaty saga carries ‘the threat of unequal treatment and increasing isolation’ for Swiss research, they say

With a struggle to attract foreign talent due to low salaries, and pandemic-driven economic crisis sparking cuts in national science budgets, researchers in EU13 countries are puzzling over how to tap new research programme to strengthen R&D systems

Romania was to be a founding member of the new consortium, but a long-standing political wrangle over equipment contract and operational autonomy has now prompted the Czech Republic and Hungary to move forward alone