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Innovation clusters could thread multiple EU funding streams together to promote regional development. But those on the ground say fragmented schemes make this impossible, and reforms can’t go ahead until the 2021 – 27 budget is agreed

Head of European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s new Tel Aviv office wants Europeans and Israelis to get to know each other a little better

European Commission president tells MEPs EU needs a bigger budget if it wants to become a ‘world leading research region’

Country’s overarching research body, UK Research and Innovation, will remove requirement to forecast ‘long-term impact’ of projects

The director general of the European Spallation Source will lead Europe’s largest association of research infrastructures

President of the Spanish National Research Council, Rosa Menéndez, explains how new cross-disciplinary platforms are bringing together diverse research teams to promote creativity and generate innovation

The move is part of broader plans to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by 2050, but also to increase its geopolitical influence around the world

Member states will begin setting out rules on extending EU research programme internationally

With new regulations in the works, chief of staff to EU digital commissioner says Europe can still run the AI race against the US and China – if it can find the money

Mariya Gabriel says renewed effort to create the European Research Area will help bridge performance disparities. But national governments need to play their part 

The hold up in agreeing the EU’s next seven year financial framework means there will be a hiatus in grant awards between the two Horizon R&D programmes

Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen is looking to build support among member states for overarching strategy to fill the gaps that exist at a national level in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and after care of cancer patients

Proximity and size of Europe still matters to UK-based scientists, says Alice Gast

Mauro Ferrari says scientists should get rid of ‘disciplinary goggles’ and combine expertise to create new fields of scientific research

A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn some of the biggest tech companies and their ample chequebooks to Quebec, Ontario and Alberta. This is giving rise to questions on the boundaries between academia and industry