King’s College London has signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with King Saud University (KSU), a leading university in Saudi Arabia, and the first such collaboration for King’s in the country.
UK-EU relations figured in the decision to create a seven-member science panel in Brussels. EC’s director-general details the hows and whys of the new system.
Karolinska Institutet has received a donation 4 million USD, of approximately 35 million SEK, for the creation of a professorship in innovation and entrepreneurship. The new professorship is financed by the 95-year-old doctor, researcher, innovator and business leader Professor Endre A. Balazs and his wife Dr Janet L. Denlinger.
A new agreement between the United States and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) signed today will pave the way for renewed collaboration in particle physics, promising to yield new insights into fundamental particles and the nature of matter and our universe.
Experimenting on animals is unreliable and wasteful says one side, while the other says it underlies research breakthroughs. Both agree alternative methods should be advanced
The 2015 EU Innovation Union Scoreboard shows that almost half of the member states scored less than in previous years due to economic slowdown in the private sector
There are many potential commercial gems in the work being done by ERC grantees. European business angels looking for new investments should check it out
The European Strategic Policy Centre, which replaces the defunct BEPA service, has published two short papers dealing with Europe’s migration crisis and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
There are great UK-EU science stories buried under all the one-sided anti-Brussels spin and now is the time to tell them, says Mike Galsworthy, researcher turned political activist
The EU has put in considerable effort to attract research-based companies to take part in Horizon 2020. But two-stage evaluations and prioritising economic impact are not working, says GE’s Director of EU Funding, Chris Haenen
The scene is set for intense lobbying by scientists and journal publishing companies between now and the autumn, when long-awaited reforms of EU copyright law must address the contentious issue of text and data mining
Poorly spread-out cuts to the European Institute of Innovation & Technology’s budget means we can’t plan research agendas for the next two years or train the same number of students, says Diego Pavía, chief of EIT energy
The establishment of the Chalmers Areas of Advance is a success. “Continue the great work!” is the message from the international committee responsible for evaluating the billion kronor initiative by the government in 2008. As a result, the funding agencies wish to reallocate another SEK 13 million in research grants to Chalmers.
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