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EU officials expect to be inundated with grant applications, but maintain that simplification of Horizon 2020 procedures will accommodate SMEs and young researchers

Strong growth in apps could account for 2.7 million software developers and 2.1 million support staff by 2018, according to a new study

New UC Berkeley research project unlocks the potential to gain energy from oceans.

Despite the turmoil, Egyptian researchers and entrepreneurs try to spur innovations. The EU’s Horizon 2020 aims to help.

Aalto University has been selected to coordinate the Rio+20 Implementation in the Nordic Higher Education Institutes project, which aims to improve the implementation of and policy instruments related to sustainable development in Nordic Higher Education Institutes. Another aim is to encourage higher education institutes to adopt the principles of sustainability.

One of the world's leading medical universities, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, now offers online MOOCs (massive open online courses). This gives hundreds of thousands of students worldwide access to the university's leading edge expertise.

Funding of expensive research equipment is in the process of changing in Sweden. To ensure that Chalmers researchers have access to the best conceivable equipment in light of the transition now under way, Chalmers has put forward a plan of action.

ETH Zurich and EPFL are jointly entering into a new research partnership with Microsoft Research. Over five years, Microsoft Research will provide five million Swiss francs of funding to support IT research projects. Microsoft researchers will also work closely with the scientists at the two universities.

Productivity in the pharma industry is up, but the origins of more than half of new drugs lies outside corporate labs.

Amendments to the European Data Protection regulation proposed in response to revelations of blanket electronic eavesdropping by the US must be dropped. If not, major international research projects in cancer, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease will come to a stop, say R&D funding bodies

ERC-funded researchers will receive up to €150,000 each to bring their research closer to the market

A new project is commencing at the UCL Energy Institute to better understand the potential role of biomass in the UK energy system.

DG Research & Innovation (DG RTD) will host a free interactive information event on Horizon 2020 for SMEs in Brussels, March 3

A major reform of EU regional policy will put innovation at the heart of smart specialisation strategies that aim to end the research divide and halt the brain drain

Scientists at UCL have successfully extracted stem cells from the back of the eye and transplanted them into completely blind rats; partially restoring their vision.

The Monash-Warwick Alliance is celebrating a double funding win for two new joint medical studies, one on the use of aspirin to treat leg ulcers and a second on the reporting of back pain.

Three Imperial academics have been presented with Wolfson Research Merit Awards in recognition of their outstanding scientific achievement.

Technology alone will not fix global problems such as climate change, food and water shortages, soil erosion or the rising tide of chronic disease. What’s needed is more dialogue and interchange between the natural and the social sciences