The European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) will continue its mission under new leadership, with plans to increase its global standing in policy analysis and foresight
An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of developing and studying precision medicines for some of the most globally devastating diseases.
As civil servants from the EU’s research directorate prepare to slink off to sunnier climates, the Research Commissioner suggests brain food to add to suitcases
Fresh data from the European Commission shows there is an increase in new female graduates. But a lack of women in leadership roles is a continuing problem, says Curt Rice, who leads Norway's committee on gender balance in research
Nature Photonics has published a study by group of researchers from Rome's Sapienza University, in collaboration with the Radboud University of Nijmegen and the Politecnico di Milano. The research shows that in the future it will be possible to store data at speeds ten thousand times higher than those achievable with our current technology.
The University of Luxembourg and the Institute of Socio-Economic Research LISER (formerly CEPS/Instead) are to create and fund four joint professorships.
Dutch ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company Lens Research & Development has been awarded the title of Most Innovative Company in the Netherlands as the winner of the first Shell LiveWire Rising Star competition.
Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas wants an initiative to tackle science misconduct to be in place by the end of the year. It is an issue Europe is divided on, says Simon Godecharle, researcher and ethicist at KU Leuven
As plans to base the precision medicines Catapult in Cambridge are announced, another Catapult gets off the ground at the site of AstraZeneca’s about-to-be-vacated R&D labs near Manchester
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