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400,000 students and university staff spent time abroad in 2016 – 2017, according to the European Commission’s latest review of its higher education mobility programme.

The bloc’s closest research partners worry about less privileged access to Horizon Europe, and a sweeter entry deal for the UK

Researchers urge the government to speed up debate and approval of 2019 budget. Projects already approved could be interrupted for weeks, or months, they say

GSK and Sanofi have joined the FinnGen study, a large public private partnership aiming to collect and analyse genome and health data from 500 000 Finns and thereby generate novel medically and therapeutically relevant insights.

The Academy of Sciences battles research minister over control of research funding

MEPs approve €11.25B for research and innovation, as part of €38B InvestEU loan guarantees programme. The scheme will stimulate additional investment of €650B, the commission claims

The proposed accelerator, four times the size of the Large Hadron Collider, would smash particles together in a tunnel 100km long. But it may not happen if China goes ahead with a rival facility

Ties will be deepened - regardless of Brexit outcome - pledge Europe’s two leading science nations. Collaboration is as important for the EU as it is for the UK, they say

Latest: Time to tell EU: ‘Our terms or no-deal’, says University of Birmingham professor

It falls to the Romanian Council presidency to steer negotiations on the next seven year budget - and with it funding for R&D in Horizon Europe. But with political infighting at home and a term cut short by European Parliament elections, some in Brussels are worried

Berlin science policy leaders want a post-Brexit Britain to stay in the EU’s Horizon programme, but as a full associate member. ‘All or none’, says German MP

With 78 days to go until Brexit, working out what to do about existing grants if the UK crashes out with no deal is hampered because Brussels won’t discuss contingency measures