The Widening News

Two research leaders tell Science|Business about their vision for the recovery and modernisation of Ukraine’s R&D system. This work is critical because revitalising the country as a whole will depend on shifting the economy to science-intensive, high added-value technologies

EU scheme will support Ukraine’s tech start-up scene and bring it closer to the EU sector

Research heavyweights in central and eastern Europe met last week to consider how to improve their performance in EU research funding programmes. At present most applicants from the region are rejected at the first stage of evaluation

Partnerships for Regional Innovation has a broad brief – to prop up the European Innovation Agenda, deliver on Green Deal goals and close the regional innovation gap

The first 63 regions, seven cities and four countries are selected for the Partnerships for Regional Innovation pilot, as part of the upcoming European Innovation Agenda

To encourage its brilliant computer scientists to stay in the region – and attract those from outside – it is necessary to create the right conditions. A new AI institute in Bulgaria is showing the way

COST and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology want their grantees in less innovative regions to benefit from a wider range of support

The government hopes public and private investments in new centre will help Bulgaria reverse brain drain and make the capital city Sofia a top destination for computer scientists

Change of approach is designed to help smaller EU countries attract more scientists from abroad and freshen up research teams

After last week’s leak of the European Commission’s first drafts of 2023-24 programmes, more early drafts are circulating among a select few universities and research institutes