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President elect vows to ‘follow the science’, setting out a 7-point action plan to beat the pandemic, including $25B to offer every citizen a free COVID-19 vaccine

The Democratic candidate appears Saturday to have gotten over the line in the US election, prompting an outpouring of relief and celebration after four years of tumult. President Trump has refused to concede

Faced with the pandemic and an urgent need to re-skill, vocational learning needs to become more attractive, flexible and fit for the digital age and green transition, says the European Commissioner for jobs and social rights

Five public-private research partnerships in digital technologies aim to reduce dependence on foreign products and instil ‘European values’ in areas such as artificial intelligence and robotics

Most scientists say they want to put the ‘lost opportunities’ of the Trump years behind them

Shadow industrial strategy minister tells Science|Business she has doubts about proposed new funding agency and says it will be ‘a failure’ if UK doesn’t participate in future EU research programmes

German MEPs Sven Simon and Christian Doleschal want the commission to come up with a plan to pay researchers whose Marie Curie projects were affected by the pandemic. In parallel, scientists are voicing their concern that a shortage in EU funding could force them to choose career paths in the US or China

Parliament’s budget rapporteur goes on hunger strike to protest the council’s unwillingness to top up Horizon Europe and 14 other programmes, as negotiations go past the deadline set by German presidency

A new agreement with India’s social science funding body is the first step in EU-India cooperation in social sciences and humanities

Green architecture project aims to bring art and science together to improve energy efficiency in Europe’s buildings. But MEPs question the need for ‘European Bauhaus' at a time when the priority should be helping the cultural sector recover from COVID-19 shutdown