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While other countries have assessed the overall impact of Brexit, Sweden is alone in analysing the specific effects on R&D. There could be severe consequences for the size and shape of Framework Programmes that will reverberate through Swedish research

New report from influential group recommends ditching large-scale projects in favour of funding outstanding individual researchers, getting rid of submission deadlines and awarding smaller grants to make the pie go further

Try as they might, no one can see a bright side to Brexit, either for the UK or the EU27. The only course is damage limitation, agreed speakers at a debate ‘Brexit the scientific impact’

As a former investment banker, Macron understands venture capital and what it takes to promote innovation. He wants to push on with university reform and improve science teaching, but the exact shape of his agenda hangs on parliamentary elections

EU chief negotiator says there will be no clarity on the future research relationship until there is an agreement on citizenship

A meta-analysis of the latest research and reports on public investment in green energy points to areas with biggest returns for the economy and the climate

Babies born today in 13 US counties have shorter expected lifespans than their parents did when they were born, according to a new study. For example, life expectancy at birth in Owsley County, Kentucky, was 72.4 years in 1980, dropping to 70.2 years in 2014

Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, deputy director general for research, in surprise move to US pharma group in June

Belgian university tops Reuters innovation league table for second year running

Large companies are essential for exploiting the results of EU-funded research and delivering the innovation that Europe so desperately needs. They should continue to be funded in FP9, says Jan van den Biesen

Some of the biggest European university and research associations have come together to call on the European Union to follow their 10 recommendations for European research: the Coimbra Group, the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH), the European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA), the European University Association (EUA), the League of European Research Universities (LERU), The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities and The Leiden Group.

University of Birmingham researchers are working with British biotech company, Matoke Holdings Ltd, inventors of Reactive Oxygen® technology, that destroys superbugs such as MRSA and Pseudomonas aeruginosa which cause major hospital-based and community infection

Participants and member state governments have given their views on the EU’s R&D programme Horizon 2020 to date. The verdict: good, but in need of several big mid-course adjustments. Low success rates, lengthy proposals and lack of feedback are common complaints

Senior EU leaders took on Hungary’s prime minister in war of words, as Brussels launched legal proceedings against new law in Hungary that could force the independent Central European University to close

“Viktor Orbán has a gun to our heads,” Michael Ignatieff tells MEPs as he continues the fight against a law which threatens to shut the Central European University

The project is organised by the Women's Institute for Equal Opportunities and the Spanish Confederation of Employers' Associations (CEOE) and co-funded by the European Social Fund 25% of participants from the first three editions of the project have received a promotion The application deadline is 10th May