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The race is on to be the first to launch a satellite from a base in Europe, but private space start-ups are finding it hard to get the investment they need for lift off -  and to build a competitive EU sector

Details of the association agreement show the UK may only get a refund due to low participation in Horizon if it rolls over into the FP10 successor programme, due to start in 2028. And there are pending negotiations on the terms on which the UK rejoins the Copernicus earth observation system

A year in, countries have launched 169 actions in support of plan to make Europe a global deep tech innovation leader

Ambassadors vote through negotiating mandate to extend strategic €500M research programme, as MEPs get progress report on Spain’s term at the head of the EU Council

The step up in funding is an opportunity to take a bigger role in ESA’s projects and grow Poland’s space sector. But the industry says without a national Polish space programme it will lack a sense of direction

The aim is to build networks across the EU, but universities in eastern Europe say structural problems make it harder for them to get involved - and some fear it promotes brain drain

Subsidies will not be enough to decarbononise industry. Instead the EU needs a scheme offering loan guarantees to de-risk and scale up green technologies

UK companies can now get grants of up to €2.5M from the EIC Accelerator programme but are still excluded from its equity fund - and investments of up to €15M

Member states confirm former EU auditor as new commissioner for research, innovation and education, replacing Mariya Gabriel

The Commission looks to extend the Arise funding scheme for early career researchers in Africa, as France’s Research Institute for Development leads talks on a new research alliance

In her speech to MEPs, Ursula von der Leyen also called for an equivalent body to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, with a brief to ‘set minimum global standards” for safe and ethical use of AI

Some university leaders are encouraged by UK joining, while one now feels ‘alone in Europe’. Meanwhile, in the latest severing of links, the Commission has shut the Swiss out of a university translation network