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Seventeen new multi-university alliances will get €5 million each to develop joint degrees. Three UK winners will be kicked out in event of no deal Brexit

Governments around the world are now pushing for ‘disruptive innovations’. Quebec’s AUDACE programme is funding scientists to work with farmers, dancers and others for surprising results

Three EU-funded supercomputers in Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovenia will attract more big science projects, lure back expatriate researchers and help reduce the innovation gap between east and west

There is horse trading ahead, but Bert De Colvenaer, head of the EU’s €5B electronics and systems partnership is pleased to see the successor project taking shape. Industry wants a bigger budget and for larger companies to continue to get public funding

An online shop window aims to link recipients of proof of concept grants with business angels interested in adding cash and expertise to take projects forward

Gunnar Bovim, rector at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, wants to combat the brain drain from developing countries. They need expertise more than we do, he says

Dutch university – bottom of the league on gender equality in the Netherlands – is making a bold move to deal with the imbalance. “I hope our example will be followed by others,” says university president Robert-Jan Smits