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Call them what you will: change makers, thought leaders, people who get stuff done. This is the Science|Business guide to those with the most influence over the size and shape of the EU’s next research programme

At the Euroscience Open Forum conference, a Bulgarian medical start-up demonstrates the potential - and the challenges - of getting health systems to focus on preventing disease, rather than responding when it strikes

Robert-Jan Smits, former EU research chief, is working on a controversial plan that could erode publishers’ control over science
 

Commission wants “fast track” action on its proposed Horizon Europe legislation, but many in member states and Parliament balk

The UK decision to leave the EU cuts at science’s core ethos of openness. As exit negotiations lurch along, researchers from across Europe are yet to spot a bright side to losing such an important science partner

US officials meeting counterparts in Brussels on next EU research plan, urge more flexibility to make transatlantic research easier - and ask what ‘associate’ partnership would mean

International Science Council unites 180 natural and social sciences organisations ‘to make the voice of science heard by those taking decisions’. One route to increasing influence will be to piggy-back the lobbying might of private sector research

MEPs plan further debate in September on new law pitting Internet companies against artists

Innovative SMEs in Spain, Italy and France grabbed the lion’s share in this year’s round of financing