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Expert team warns of ‘race to the bottom’ threatening living standards around the world

Reshuffle at the top sees two new vice presidents and three scientific council members come on board

The ERA Chairs competition, part of efforts to widen participation in EU research, has given awards of up to €2.5M to 13 institutes in East and South Europe. But the debate on bridging the continent’s research gap goes on

University participation in the second U-multirank ranking, due to be published next month, is expected to be up on last year. But frustration with the tool’s demanding data collection requirements remains

New automated production processes means the industrial landscape is shifting. The EU Commission wants to make sure SMEs don’t get left behind

If elevator pitches are stressful, sub-zero ones are even more so. Later this month 20 thick-skinned entrepreneurs will get into an ice hole in Finland to convince investors to finance their dreams

New study calls for more public involvement in the design of big data medical research projects such as DNA databanks and epidemiological studies based on healthcare records, allowing research to continue whilst protecting individual privacy

Purpose of the Aalto University Endowment is to generate additional funding for world-class research and education.

The University of Warwick is one five universities announced today, Wednesday 28th January, by the Rt. Hon. Dr Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, as leaders of the prestigious new Alan Turing Institute.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have won a £12 Million award to create a new Centre to develop advanced technologies in synthetic biology. This research will help drive advances in pharmaceuticals, high-value and commodity chemicals, innovative treatments for disease, environmental bioremediation, and food security. It will also play a major role in helping us achieve a much better understanding of some of the key principles underpinning living systems.

Karolinska Institutet is to set up its own research base in Hong Kong. This initiative is made possible by a donation of USD 50 million, equivalent to SEK 400 million, by Hong Kong-based businessman Ming Wai Lau. This is one of the largest private donations ever received by Karolinska Institutet

Europe’s leading scientific institutions will work with less-developed regions to start-up new research centres

But in a time of dwindling resources in Europe and beyond, new energy technologies and processes must have efficiency as their watchword, says David Eyton, group head of technology at BP

Company cites ‘serious disagreements’ with Lucidi over implementation of strategy

With Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas expected to devise ways to ensure EU policy benefits from scientific insight in the next few months, thoughts turn to what form the advice will take, and how to avoid the banana skins of the past

If money is to be taken from the Horizon 2020 pot, there should be oversight from science to ensure research and innovation is not weakened, says an open letter from Europe’s leading scientific groups

Stefan Bengtsson has been appointed as the new President of Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg. This was a decided at an extra meeting by the university board on January 21.

The budget of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research should be absorbed by the European Research Council. A proviso that projects backed by Dutch money be conducted in the Netherlands would strengthen the country’s research, says Luc Soete, Rector Magnificus, Maastricht University

A group of German researchers give limited intelligence to a well-known computer figure