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ETH Zurich and the Wilhelm Schulthess Foundation are set to expand their research and teaching collaboration. ETH Zurich will establish a new chair to study how physical activity affects human physiology and long-term well-being. The Wilhelm Schulthess Foundation is supporting the creation of the Chair of Physical Activity and Health with 10 million Swiss francs over a 10-year period.

Chalmers and Ruag Space have signed a long-term agreement for collaboration in the area of information and communication technology for space.

The University of Warwick has been awarded £1 million by The Leverhulme Trust to bridge the gap between mathematical and social sciences with a new doctoral scholarship programme.

The project aims to bring together researchers, engineers, people from industry and young students and to encourage them to come up with new ideas that are useful for society, says Markus Nordberg of CERN

Europe’s carbon market is not dead in the water, but rather a work in progress, says Andreas Loeschel, who advises Chancellor Angela Merkel on overhauling Germany’s energy mix

An expert panel urges the new European Commission to reap the economic benefits of science on-line

Interest in the beautiful game did not flow naturally for Pablo Rodriguez, Telefónica’s Director of Research and Innovation. Until he realised how it all looked a lot like computers

Three University of Cambridge projects have been selected as winners in GSK’s 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge, which is designed to accelerate the translation of academic research into novel therapies.

A research partnership focused on Automotive Cyber Security Research has been set up by global information assurance specialist NCC Group and WMG, at the University of Warwick.

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) has succeeded for the first time in describing the complex relationships within an ecosystem in unprecedented detail. For their work, carried out in collaboration with US and Luxembourg partners, their model ecosystem was a “biological wastewater treatment plant”.

UCL is to build a new second campus on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, to form part of a wider Education and Cultural Quarter following the government's announcement of £141m in support of the project.

Science|Business reveals member states’ bids for education projects they want to see funded under the EU’s new €315B Fund for Strategic Investment, unveiled last week

Thanks to the renewal of the cooperation agreement between the Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Bologna and the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research (ICAR), the fourth excavation campaign in Tol-e Ajori’s site, near Persepolis, has been carried out.

This week Aalto University hosted the OECD ‘What works’ Conference. The theme of the event was entrepreneurship and higher education. Over the course of two days of seminars, lectures, and workshops, experts in the field shared their experiences and ideas about best practice in an inspirational atmosphere.

At the beginning of 2015, Chalmers will start its first mooc – massive open online course – free of charge and accessible to anyone with a computer. The course will be on the super-material graphene, which has not been the subject for a mooc previously.

Although there is backing for the €315B Fund for Strategic Investment, researchers are worried about loss of the Horizon 2020 money that will be diverted to service the scheme

From 2015, first-year undergraduates at TU Berlin will have an option to start studying without choosing a degree subject. A new “orientation year” will include a class in entrepreneurship, and coursework flexibility will give students more responsibility for their choices

A European Court of Justice ruling invalidates Guido Rasi’s appointment as head of the EMA, opening the way for further questions on the governance of the agency

Critical infrastructure systems are the backbone of society and ever growing in complexity and interconnectedness. A new research programme kicked off at the Singapore-ETH Centre strives to increase their robustness and resilience.