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Bank teams up with UK online lender in show of support for alternative finance model

A new online service advising how to set up and implement gender balance plans will be available this autumn

Scientists to unite behind targeted European Food Safety Authority in public letter to EU lawmakers, which will also call for action against a growing mistrust in experts

With the polls suggesting the outcome of the critical in-out referendum is too close to call, scientists in the EU tell Science|Business they fear a British exit will have negative consequences for European research as a whole

A UK programme set up in 2013 has already produced four high tech companies with valuations of €1B. The European Commission should set up a similar scheme, says the European Digital Forum

Industry Commissioner tells MEPs that defence research will get money in next year’s budget, as the Commission prepares to bolster European R&D base that is close “to point of no return”

New university league table places Belgian university at top of 100 list. Germany does best overall, while Sweden and Finland have no institutions in the ranking

The research unit is in close association with Nokia Bell Labs.

The nomination process for Karolinska Institutet’s next vice-chancellor is underway, and this summer an application committee will be seeking out candidates before the interview process commences in August.

The arrival of thousands of non-EU migrants to Sweden coincides with a labor shortage in the country’s expanding IT sector. So KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is doing its part to fill the gap.

Prospective candidates can submit their applications until 22 June

On 21 June, the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum launches a report based on the world’s largest entrepreneurship survey Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). The report looks at how has entrepreneurial activity promoted industrial activity and built competitive strength since 2000.

Given the “cautionary tale” of how the Swiss freedom of movement referendum led to immediate cuts in EU R&D grants, the UK government should be ready to step in with national funding, says science committee

After raiding Horizon 2020 funds, the European Fund for Strategic Investments is attracting private investment and on course to reach its €315B target. But the low risk projects it is financing are not wholly innovative - only one involves a research organisation

Sheila Rowan, an award-winning experimental physicist, fills the vacancy after an 18-month gap

Three-month start-up support programme looking for a new crop of companies in Germany and Kenya

Registration is now open for the second International Network for Government Science Advice Conference on science and policymaking, which will take place on 29 and 30 September in Brussels

A hi-tech improvement to the surgical implantation of pacemakers into patients with heart failure is being pioneered by specialists at Guy’s and St Thomas’, using software developed by clinicians and engineers at King’s College London

Red Points is a tech company specialised in protecting digital assets and brands sold online

Professor Mark Lythgoe (UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging) has been announced as the new Chair of the Times Cheltenham Science Festival