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The Commission has started re-organising its main department for research and innovation. The objective, Director-General Robert-Jan Smits tells Science|Business, is better policy and more efficient grant handling

As of January 2014, the ERC has three Vice-Presidents instead of two. Spanish psychologist, Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, joins the two existing Vice-Presidents, Professors Pavel Exner and Carl-Henrik Heldin

A new Centre for ICT innovation has opened at Imperial West in White City, it was announced on Thursday.

Wouter Vlemmings has received a grant worth 2 million euro (17 MSEK) from the European Research Council. For Wouter this means new possibilities in exploring how magnetic fields in space can reveal how stars are born – and how they die.

In 2014 Aalto University will launch the Aalto Nuclear Safety program, bringing the nuclear energy research and education into a common network.

To date, citizen science has focused on top-down science communication. But as the exemplar of astronomy highlights, amateur enthusiasts can make significant contributions. It’s time to capture this potential, to expand the scope and excellence of research, says Fermin Serrano

The first long-term U.S. field trials of Miscanthus x giganteus, a towering perennial grass used in bioenergy production, reveal that its exceptional yields, though reduced somewhat after five years of growth, are still more than twice those of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), another perennial grass used as a bioenergy feedstock. Miscanthus grown in Illinois also outperforms even the high yields found in earlier studies of the crop in Europe, the researchers found.

Reform of public sector research has stalled, but financial woes have prompted the refocussing of private sector R&D - offering hope for a revival of investment and a spur to innovation

The ‘democratic deficit’ in Brussels was all-too present in the shaping of Horizon 2020. Here’s what can be done to remedy the problem.

A decade after establishing its European R&D centre, joint research is flourishing and the building has run out of space. Now GE is embarking on a multi-million dollar investment that will double the capacity

Girls outperform boys in STEM subjects, but don’t translate this potential into future careers. Now, Microsoft is pushing for more women in ICT

As the first calls are launched and the details revealed, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 work programmes. Here is the agenda for ‘Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and reflective societies’