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University leaders tell MPs reliance on high tuition fee model is a systemic risk for country’s research performance

Companies complain that they cannot find enough people with the right digital skills, but universities say it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what and where the shortages are

The council draft gives a first preview of how the money for Horizon Europe will be divided between its different components. With €758M less than the European Commission proposed, all areas apart from nuclear research face cuts

Head of Innovative Medicines Initiatives argues that the project’s technologies, knowledge and networks came together in the crisis. The successor programme must sustain these achievements and build on them

The COVID-19 crisis has hammered home the extent of EU dependence on Chinese and US digital technologies. To turn the tide, the emphasis must be on frontier research and translating the outputs to products and jobs

Experts say European cities cannot rely on global Internet players’ mobility data and algorithms, a Science|Business conference hears

A new EU public-private partnership aims to mainstream circular, bio-based systems in Europe. Regions must take a central role in deploying the technology and processes it develops

European firms need better access to networks that can provide investment, partners and intellectual property protection, say participants in Science|Business workshop

Industry is cool on EU’s technology sovereignty push, warning that it could limit access to international markets 

Debate around the Horizon Europe programme is heating up, as the European Parliament tries to claw back funding lost in the EU budget summit in July

We’re promised that the Horizon Europe public-private research partnerships will be better than ever. But a Science|Business workshop at the ESOF meeting in Trieste finds barriers to participants from countries with weaker research systems remains a major issue  

University heads take the stage at ESOF to call for governments to keep investing in R&D despite the COVID-induced economic squeeze. Without sustained funding, scientists will leave the EU, they say