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An upgrade sees the country get same rights as non-EU members including Norway and Iceland to apply for any Horizon 2020 grants

An EU expert group analyses the future of Europe’s system for generating knowledge. The report is released this week.

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg is coordinating a European Union project for research into new active compounds against Parkinson’s disease (PD).

King’s College London, the University of Warwick and New York University (NYU), have signed an agreement to establish a London Centre for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at Bush House, part of King’s Strand campus, from 2017.

GSK, the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust today announce their Strategic Partnership, with the long-term ambition to jointly deliver new medicine to patients in the next 5-10 years

University contributes to scientific breakthrough for cancer patients

The new ‘Mission Innovation’ to boost energy R&D announced in Paris is good - but the EU isn’t formally a part of it and more needs to be done at the collective, European level. The Barcelona Climate Declaration, launched Nov. 20 at ESADE Business School by the Science|Business Network of universities and companies, calls for a doubling of EU R&D funding in this area as part of a broad, research and innovation-based action plan against climate change.

Two major initiatives to bring innovation to bear on climate change were unveiled in Paris. Twenty countries pledged to double spending in energy R&D over five years and private investors promised patient backing for spinouts based on this research

Experts at Science|Business roundtable say innovations in technology, business, social models and policy are needed for real climate action

As climate talks convene in Paris, research stands ready to make a greater contribution to addressing this challenge, says Luke Georghiou. However, it must be properly integrated into a broader approach, he tells the Science|Business Annual Summit in Barcelona

CEOs sign letter saying problem solved, after raising concerns about proposed changes to how European Institute of Innovation and Technology clusters operate

Scientists express relief as government says the research budget will rise in line with inflation. But innovation grants will be turned to loans, a £1B carbon capture scheme is axed and some R&D spending is shifted to the overseas aid budget

France’s Centre national de la recherche scientifique increases support for research on security and violence following the November 13 attacks. A similar call was made after the Charlie Hebdo killings in January

Aalto has succeeded exceedingly well in obtaining funding from the EU framework programme

Representatives from 21 of Europe's leading research universities met at Imperial on Friday and Saturday.

CERN’s Knowledge Transfer Group has just launched a new tool to encourage CERN researchers and businesses to share their technologies, ideas and expertise.

The LightOn project is the result of a longstanding and interdisciplinary collaboration between the inventors on optical information processing.

Alexander von Gabain, the new innovation leader at Karolinska Institutet, pushes the famed medical school to bring more companies, entrepreneurs and investment on campus

The company claims it is the first in the world to have developed an anti-corrosion and wear-resistant coating based on silicon carbide, one of the world´s hardest compounds. It beat three other finalists in the 7th annual ACES competition today in Barcelona