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An experimental economics study at the University of Bologna explains why northern and southern Italians behave differently when it comes to cooperating and trusting others.

Joanne O’Dea recognised as best newcomer at Association of British Science Writers awards

Belgian pharma company UCB will receive the ‘at risk co-development funding’ to directly finance six drug projects, in a deal the bank says showcases the new InnovFin scheme’s aim of boosting European innovation

“Internal demonstration of strength and active choices”. It’s a question of opting in and opting out for the Karolinska Institutet over the next five years. On 28 April, the Board pushed through the new strategy document “Strategy 2018”. It will be implemented in September on a broad front in the organisation.

King’s College London and the University of Warwick, in partnership with New York University, plan a major initiative in collaboration with the GLA and Southwark Council to launch 'CUSP London', a branch of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress to be based at Canada Water from 2018.

Imperial Innovations is pleased to note that one of its portfolio of companies, PsiOxus Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing innovative new treatments for cancer today announced the first dosing of a patient in the OCTAVE (Ovarian Cancer Treated with Adeno Vaccine Enadenotucirev) study.

The EU-funded BASTION project aims to build relationships between science and industry and promote the translation of cancer research into new treatments. A number of obstacles must be removed before true collaboration can flourish

When entrepreneur Hermann Hauser laid the foundations for the UK’s Catapult research initiatives, he held up Germany’s Fraunhofer institutes as role models. The UK now has both models in action

Edvard and May-Britt Moser, co-directors of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, have been selected for the €750 000 award from the Hamburg, Germany based Körber Foundation.

With Simon Lilly and Timothy Eglinton, the renowned Royal Society has elected two ETH professors as Fellows at the same time.

Climate-KIC, the EU’s main climate innovation initiative, is set to kick-off its activities in Sweden this week with a conference at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg.

In blocking the Citizen’s Initiative calling for an end to funding, the Commission has renewed its support for embryonic stem cell funding

Rather than being fixated on out-ranking the rankings, the aim should be to get the EU’s new university league table to work in and for Europe, says Ellen Hazelkorn, Director of Ireland’s Higher Education Policy Research Unit

The €200 million AXA Research Fund backs fundamental science linked to health, environmental and socio-economic risks

Research and innovation is low on the agenda for MEPs elected to represent radical parties – if it features at all. With the EU’s new legislature facing an array of science-related policy, will this disinterest matter?

A band of enthusiastic reformers want to see more problem-solving lessons on school curricula