Florin Zubașcu, a journalist with eight years of experience covering European research and innovation policy, universities and academic freedom. Florin is based in Cluj-Napoca, the home of Romania’s largest university and of a vibrant start-up scene, from where he travels across the region to do interviews and meet the R&D policy experts and stakeholders who matter in central and eastern Europe. He is working closely with a growing team of contributors:
Goda Naujokaitytė, is EU news reporter at Science|Business. She joined Science|Business in April 2020 and since then she has been covering EU R&D policy and the Horizon Europe programme. She will contribute articles on the widening programme in Horizon and R&D policy reforms in central and eastern Europe.
Ian Mundell, writes The Ecosystem, a weekly column from Science|Business on the people, policies and places innovating in Europe. For the widening newsletter, he will contribute regularly various stories on innovation in central and eastern Europe.
Thomas Brent joined the team in October 2022. He has worked as a journalist in countries around the world, including three years in Cambodia reporting on social and political issues in Southeast Asia and two years in France writing for the English-language newspaper The Connexion
Anna Rzhevkina is an independent journalist based in Poland, where she has worked as a news reporter for Reuters. She is now covering business and economy in central and eastern Europe
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