The Widening News

The move is intended to protect EU money but opposition politicians worry about its impact on Hungarian students

The Cassovia New Industry Cluster launched in 2021 with the aim of bringing universities and industry together to increase the industrial competitiveness of an economically deprived region

There are two new calls in the €900M plan that aims to reduce the innovation gap in Europe

With a new start-up visa, Bulgaria joins the Baltic states in offering foreign entrepreneurs a fast-track to residency

An anthropologist studying conspiracy theories is just the second researcher in the country to win a European Research Council grant, a small step forward as Slovakia struggles to improve its research system

Four years after the government passed the ‘Constitution for Science’, academics continue to debate whether the reforms are having the intended impact

While the government-mandated transfer of research institutes was found not to infringe scientific freedom, it did breach the property rights of the Academy of Sciences. For researchers, that is hampering the day-to-day operation of the institutes

UK university opens research institute in Wroclaw to give it a foothold in mainland Europe and reopen access to EU research funding

The region’s entrepreneur scene is fast developing, but it still lags far behind western Europe in the number of companies and the amount of capital they attract

Economic development means the country could soon find it is no longer eligible for EU funding designed to address regional disparities in income, wealth and opportunities. This could leave research and innovation €3B worse off