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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

Member states to back both green and gold access and endorse move to end traditional subscription model, according to draft text

Key insights and recommendations for 21st century businesses on digitalisation derived from comprehensive global survey

Students from Delft University think they can send passengers from Amsterdam to Paris in 30 minutes through high-speed tubes

The EU still has not learned basic lessons about innovation from its US competition. Professors Gunnar Landgren and Ramon Wyss, both instrumental in the formation of EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities, explain how to remedy the European innovation paradox

Science funding from the EU supports world-class science in Britain and masks weak investment from the government

In the coming years, KU Leuven will partner with six universities in Budapest, Ljubljana, and Prague. “Rough diamonds,” according to Rector Rik Torfs: “We can help them realise their potential.”

GE Healthcare Life Sciences continues to invest in Uppsala. The company signs a two-year collaboration agreement with Uppsala BIO

The University of Pisa is benefiting from an extensive framework of cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

A second no-confidence motion laid down by fringe members of the Parliament against the Juncker Commission is certain to fail – but it raises pressure on the executive over long-awaited criteria for risky chemicals

As US universities expand into Asia and the Middle East, a survey of 47 heads of higher education reveals frustration at the pace of change in Europe. So are European institutions innovating enough to remain competitive?

Assistant professor Marco Hutter develops walking robots that move like living creatures. One day his machines might be able to carry out the menial and dangerous work human beings would rather avoid

The company’s artificial intelligence division to get access to a wide pool of data from London hospitals

Robert Madelin, adviser on innovation at the European Political Strategy Centre says the new advice body has introduced talent and ideas - and has the ear of President Juncker.

Scientists say strict limits on using animals in the lab hurt scientific research

Mathematicians from 12 countries haved launched a massive mathematical database of mathematical objects including elliptic curves, and a special class of zeroes, that has already been deployed to protect our bank accounts and solve mathematical problems in physics and in prime number theory.

Expertise of Aalto community members in ten teaching innovations accepted to the HundrED project.

The third Flagship, launching in 2018, aims to translate 20 years of EU funding for basic research in quantum theory through to applications in networks, sensors and computers. As ever, Europe is behind in commercialisation