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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

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

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

Orion will explore ways in which research and funding organisations can open up how they fund, organise, conduct and disseminate research

Join Amazon's Ralf Herbrich on May 16 from 9-10.30am at The Square, Brussels

The use of health data has the potential to offer significant benefits for patients, healthcare systems, research and innovation, but a sustainable and effective health data ecosystem is needed in order to realise the full potential of these data, according to report from RAND Europe

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

Survey of 1,286 researchers underlines the importance of international collaboration and mobility in science and engineering

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.

Now Fraunhofer researchers have developed a capacitor that can withstand temperatures of up to 300 degrees Celsius by using an innovative mix of materials – and a special 3D trick

All it takes to win is to describe in less than 1,500 words how mobility in Europe could be cleaner and more efficient. Send your vision by 7 May.

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

The locations of the centres for the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), whose hub of research activity and operational headquarters is based at UCL, have been named as the University of Cambridge, Cardiff University, the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London and King’s College London