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Billed as the hearing of the week, Spain’s Commissioner-to-be faced a cacophonous European Parliament. A strong hold on the energy and climate change brief saw him pick up some admirers, but it may not be enough

Romanian Commissioner-designate was criticised for lacking ideas on funding priorities for one of the EU’s largest budgets

Jan Reichelt, co-founder of Mendeley, reflects on how his start-up brought relief to academics and shook up science publishing. The secret was in making a common cause with fellow researchers, he says

Vytenis Andriukaitis pledges to widen access to innovative healthcare across the EU and to keep the highest health and food safety standards in a more equal ‘Health Union’

Carlos Moedas, Portugal’s nominee for EU Commissioner for research, wins over MEPs. Now it’s time for implementation, implementation, implementation, he says

The German Commissioner is due to switch from energy to the digital portfolio. He wants to put the focus on big picture infrastructure investment, but some of his answers indicate he needs time to get to grip with all the issues

Harambee, the ESADE students' finalist project, held up remarkably well during the final pitch-off at the Clinton Global Initiative's annual meeting

Aalto University received approximately EUR 76 million in research funding distributed by EU's 7th Framework Programme

“Techkriti” and “Techfest” in India are two of Asia’s largest technology trade fairs. Each year, ETH Zurich sends a student delegation to these events, with the team from “e-Velolink” taking part in this year’s Techkriti fair in Kanpur.

Pharma industry denies it lobbied for medicines to move from health to enterprise directorate

In all, 155 SMEs will receive funding. Along with Spain, the UK and Italy fare well

Young entrepreneurs came face-face-to-face with policymakers in Brussels to talk about taking risks and accepting failure more readily

New innovations like Uber should not be shunned says Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google in his ‘Essay for the European Commission’

The Czechs are accelerating to catch up in the electric car world. However, more government support is needed to help green innovation displace incumbent technologies, saysTomáš Chmelík, project manager for the country’s E-mobility programmme

Next week Jean-Claude Juncker’s new team faces its crucial audition with the European Parliament

Medical device developed by Nexstim achieves very promising results for stroke patient rehabilitation in the US.

The top 100 Swiss startups of 2014 were announced yesterday evening, and 18 ETH spin-offs were included in the list. What’s more, the startup with the best prospects of success started life at ETH Zurich.

Imperial has been shortlisted for International Collaboration of the Year in the 2014 Times Higher Education Awards.