The Widening News

With targeted programmes of support and a new accelerator, Romania aims to build a deeper ecosystem for healthcare start-ups

Almost ten years on, the EU-funded centres are strengthening research and innovation performance. Now the challenge is to ensure they are sustainable and can thrive on their own long term

The appeals add another layer of complication to an ongoing dispute between Brussels and Budapest over the autonomy of many of Hungary’s higher education institutions

Gabriel will act as understudy to anti-corruption campaigner Nikolay Denkov, a member of the Academy of Sciences, in a government that looks on paper a boon for the country’s R&D. But judicial reform will be the priority

Science expat networks in eastern Europe aim to turn brain drain into brain circulation, support mobility and narrow the gap between Widening countries and western Europe. But intermittent funding threatens the future of these grassroots initiatives

The country is looking to boost its research, development and innovation landscape with a massive increase in the budget and new focus after decades of stasis

A new deal brings hope a €300M EU investment in eastern Europe’s largest research laboratory will not be lost to management problems

The number of Polish participants in Horizon Europe has leapt up compared to the early years of the previous framework programme

A fact-finding trip to Budapest has left MEPs from across the political spectrum uneasy. Their impressions of deteriorating academic freedom and self-censorship are at odds with how government representatives portrayed things

The initiative brings together partners from strong, moderate, and emerging innovator regions, to support women innovators and spread the entrepreneurial mindset. Women entrepreneurs in Widening countries give their views of what needs to change