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Innovation clusters in life sciences and raw materials set to start in 2015, following year-long bidding competition

Member states line up 2,000 project proposals in transport, energy and research, for funding from the EU’s new investment scheme

In the race to create world-beating technology companies from scratch, Germany spent most of the past thirty years on the sidelines. But the country’s start-up ecosystem is now flourishing - and foreign investors are taking a second look

ETH Zurich and the Wilhelm Schulthess Foundation are set to expand their research and teaching collaboration. ETH Zurich will establish a new chair to study how physical activity affects human physiology and long-term well-being. The Wilhelm Schulthess Foundation is supporting the creation of the Chair of Physical Activity and Health with 10 million Swiss francs over a 10-year period.

Chalmers and Ruag Space have signed a long-term agreement for collaboration in the area of information and communication technology for space.

The University of Warwick has been awarded £1 million by The Leverhulme Trust to bridge the gap between mathematical and social sciences with a new doctoral scholarship programme.

The project aims to bring together researchers, engineers, people from industry and young students and to encourage them to come up with new ideas that are useful for society, says Markus Nordberg of CERN

There are grounds for cautious optimism as member states propose to make an exception for R&D, and an MEP involved in drafting the data protection bill says the new law will not be allowed to hamper research

Europe’s carbon market is not dead in the water, but rather a work in progress, says Andreas Loeschel, who advises Chancellor Angela Merkel on overhauling Germany’s energy mix

An expert panel urges the new European Commission to reap the economic benefits of science on-line

The EU has formally accepted Swiss scientists back into a handful of research programmes

In 2013, the growth rate of private R&D investment in Europe fell to 2.9 per cent, due to falling corporate profits and a weak pharma and tech sector

Off-shoots of technology used in the recent Rosetta mission are coming back down to Earth to help detect ulcers and cancer and make submarines safer

With funding agreed, the European Space Agency’s new Ariane 6 space rocket should be ready for lift-off in 2020

Ann Mettler, founder of the Lisbon Council think-tank, will take up her post at the helm of the new European Strategic Policy Centre. Staff at the defunct BEPA service had been told to re-apply for their jobs

Interest in the beautiful game did not flow naturally for Pablo Rodriguez, Telefónica’s Director of Research and Innovation. Until he realised how it all looked a lot like computers

Three University of Cambridge projects have been selected as winners in GSK’s 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge, which is designed to accelerate the translation of academic research into novel therapies.

A research partnership focused on Automotive Cyber Security Research has been set up by global information assurance specialist NCC Group and WMG, at the University of Warwick.

The Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) has succeeded for the first time in describing the complex relationships within an ecosystem in unprecedented detail. For their work, carried out in collaboration with US and Luxembourg partners, their model ecosystem was a “biological wastewater treatment plant”.