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A new online service advising how to set up and implement gender balance plans will be available this autumn

With the polls suggesting the outcome of the critical in-out referendum is too close to call, scientists in the EU tell Science|Business they fear a British exit will have negative consequences for European research as a whole

New university league table places Belgian university at top of 100 list. Germany does best overall, while Sweden and Finland have no institutions in the ranking

The research unit is in close association with Nokia Bell Labs.

The nomination process for Karolinska Institutet’s next vice-chancellor is underway, and this summer an application committee will be seeking out candidates before the interview process commences in August.

The arrival of thousands of non-EU migrants to Sweden coincides with a labor shortage in the country’s expanding IT sector. So KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is doing its part to fill the gap.

Prospective candidates can submit their applications until 22 June

On 21 June, the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum launches a report based on the world’s largest entrepreneurship survey Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The report looks at how has entrepreneurial activity promoted industrial activity and built competitive strength since 2000.

After raiding Horizon 2020 funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments is attracting private investment and on course to reach its €315B target. But the low risk projects it is financing are not wholly innovative - only one involves a research organisation

Sheila Rowan, an award-winning experimental physicist, fills the vacancy after an 18-month gap

Professor Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging) has been announced as the new Chair of the Times Cheltenham Science Festival

Over the past year, the University of Luxembourg has considerably enhanced its international standing.

The European Innovation Council should not obsess over Europe’s lack of billion-dollar companies. Instead, it should stick to getting small details right, says entrepreneur Piotr Jakubowiczi

EU publishes 109 comments on its plan to form a European Innovation Council – and most support the idea so long as it doesn’t eat up existing EU research funds and awards grants faster

Nine universities team up to talk up research in Europe and boost the profile of several countries’ capabilities

With resources and services stretched to their limits, future cities must be smarter. Cambridge professors Doug Crawford-Brown, Robert Mair and Koen Steemers describe the innovations in technology and governance needed to keep the megacity functional

A group of world leading, universities met in Brussels to found the Guild of European Research Intensive Universities.

Copyright restrictions and an inflexible publisher licensing system are making European researchers hesitant to attempt analyses of large and disparate databases, according to Lisbon Council report

Science ministers tell publishers to ditch subscriptions and change their business models, but agree there should be caveats on open access to protect intellectual property rights, security and privacy

Preliminary proposal would base the new council on Horizon 2020’s SME Instrument