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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.

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.

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

The voting pattern of Eurosceptic MEPs reveals that radical parties rarely agree on research, technology and innovation policies, as a Science|Business analysis shows

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?

Current methods for treating salt water to make it drinkable are energy-intensive, require harsh chemicals and produce waste – but new technologies that reduce the environmental impact of desalination are in the pipeline.

Imperial College London is to build a new and pioneering biomedical engineering centre thanks to an unprecedented £40 million gift from Michael Uren OBE and the Michael Uren Foundation.

Journalists are invited to attend London’s largest free event for entrepreneurs who are looking for ways to set up and grow their businesses.

The ‘radical’ parties gain ground in Euro elections – but their impact depends on how well they organise themselves in Brussels

José Manuel Soria, the Spanish Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism, will give a keynote address

The 2014 Areas of Advance prize goes to Andreas Hellström, senior lecturer and director of the Centre for Healthcare Improvement (CHI), a research and education centre that has had great impact on improvements in health care and is contributing to a sustainable society. The SEK 100,000 prize will support the work being carried out by CHI and Chalmers to further develop Swedish health care services.

Eirma's annual conference will be part of the larger ESOF event (21-26 June)

The term innovation ecosystem is more than a convenient description. The means by which ecosystems are formed and developed provide a practical model for reshaping Europe’s innovation processes, says Didier Schmitt

While it has a high reputation for the quality of its basic medical research, Poland lacks the means to translate this into the clinic. International collaboration is needed to help build this infrastructure

With the changing of the guard in Brussels imminent, Europe’s manufacturing industries are calling for serious thinking on energy in the next half decade

As of 17 May 2014, Prof. Alain Beretz (President of the University of Strasbourg) is the new Chair of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Elected by the LERU Rectors in November last year, Beretz takes over from Prof. Bernd Huber (President of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), who has been LERU’s Chair since 2008.

Science|Business pores over the contents of the main party groupings’ short manifestos, finding common goals and little appetite for controversy

Alternative system eschews traditional rankings, allowing students to select their own personal top list based on their study interests