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The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is, “the university that built Norway”. Upholding this tradition calls for cooperation with institutions worldwide, links with industry, and home-based facilities that are centres of gravity for international researchers, says the Rector Gunnar Bovim

The EU’s main climate innovation initiative, Climate-KIC, will open a new Nordic centre next month, in Denmark. Chalmers University of Technology is among the partners of the new centre.

The Startup Europe Partnership and the European Digital Forum gather global entrepreneurs, universities and financial institutions, and aim to close the gap between Europe and Silicon Valley

Microsoft opened the doors of a new training centre in Brussels, which it says will both help to bridge the ICT skills gap reduce youth employment in Europe

Developing low emission vehicles of the future will be the focus of a major collaboration

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

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

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

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, new President of the ERC , tells Science|Business he is charting a ‘political’ course – to help boost science in Europe’s weaker regions, and to promote young scientists

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.

Recognising that innovation requires market acceptance, Horizon 2020 will invest €462 million over the next seven years on a new programme, ‘Science with and for society’. Science|Business looks at the plan for the first two years

As negotiations come to an end and attention shifts to the finer details, Science|Business examines the Horizon 2020 work programme in Smart, green and integrated transport

Building a green economy featuring the sustainable use of natural resources and resilience to the effects of climate change is the ambitious objective of the Horizon 2020 work programme, ‘Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials’

The work programme ‘Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine and maritime and inland water research and the bioeconomy’ will award €248.5M over the next two years to help Europe make the best of its biological resources

The work programme on Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies, Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, aims both to bring new materials into use and to improve manufacturing processes and systems overall

‘Secure societies - protecting the freedom and security of Europe and its citizens’, may seem an unlikely theme for scientific research. Science|Business looks at what is involved in the first calls of this Horizon 2020 programme