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Agreement is expected to end years of political disagreement that held back attempts to add more money to the public R&D purse, while new tax incentives aim to persuade companies to invest more in innovation

Tens of billions of euros will be required to clean up steel manufacturing and the EU needs to decide what route it should take to do this - whether to retrofit old coke furnaces, or build new gas-powered ones

As the European Research Council hands out €619M to early-career researchers in first Horizon Europe funding round, 28 grantees in Switzerland must take the money elsewhere, while UK-based winners warned they may have to do likewise if association talks fail

Biden Administration issues new ‘guidance’ for US academics reporting their collaborations with China, Russia and others – attempting to strike balance between security and openness

Under threat from Russia, Ukraine seeks to boost its participation in international research

With talks to update the roadmap on EU/China research collaboration stalled, a new report argues the EU should copy Beijing and draw up a list of foreign technologies it wants to acquire. This is the latest warning that Europe lacks intelligence on Chinese research, politics and society.

As governments around the world scramble to start up green hydrogen economies, scientists are pointing to an underexplored source of the gas – natural hydrogen continuously generated in the earth’s crust

Initial steps in implementing a new look European Research Area, progress on Horizon Europe association of Switzerland and the UK, France’s Council presidency pushing to ensure EU technology sovereignty and warmer transatlantic R&D relations, are all on the cards

With money finally flowing to projects, the next year will be a critical time to lay the foundations for beating cancer, adapting to climate change, saving the oceans and protecting soils

The last six months have seen a flurry of announcements as brain-hungry countries try to lure researchers, entrepreneurs and students