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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

Multiple solutions and technologies needed

Big Data holds the potential to boost economic growth in Europe by 1.9 per cent by 2020, according to a new report. But how will this be achieved and what needs to be done to try and ensure the benefits are equally spread?

The Imperial College - Huawei Data Science Innovation Laboratory will bring together experts from across Imperial College with Huawei researchers to work on applications of big data in fields such as smart cities and healthcare

A new long-range wireless tag detection system, with potential applications in health care, environmental protection and goods tracking, can pinpoint items with near 100 per cent accuracy over a much wider range than current systems.

Scientists at Karolinska Institutet and Gurdon Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom have identified a novel mechanism that allows pluripotent stem cells to maintain their genome in an unpacked state, and thereby maintain their unique property to give raise to all types of specialized cells in the body. The findings are presented in the journal Nature.

Huawei 5G white paper on the next wave of a globally connected Digital Society

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is, “the university that built Norway”. Upholding this tradition calls for cooperation with institutions worldwide, links with industry, and home-based facilities that are centres of gravity for international researchers, says the Rector Gunnar Bovim

The European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, is organising a high-level event to discuss solutions to the struggles of small and medium enterprises.

The EU’s main climate innovation initiative, Climate-KIC, will open a new Nordic centre next month, in Denmark. Chalmers University of Technology is among the partners of the new centre.

The Startup Europe Partnership and the European Digital Forum gather global entrepreneurs, universities and financial institutions, and aim to close the gap between Europe and Silicon Valley

Microsoft opened the doors of a new training centre in Brussels, which it says will both help to bridge the ICT skills gap reduce youth employment in Europe

Developing low emission vehicles of the future will be the focus of a major collaboration

The Commission has started re-organising its main department for research and innovation. The objective, Director-General Robert-Jan Smits tells Science|Business, is better policy and more efficient grant handling

As of January 2014, the ERC has three Vice-Presidents instead of two. Spanish psychologist, Professor Núria Sebastián Gallés, joins the two existing Vice-Presidents, Professors Pavel Exner and Carl-Henrik Heldin