Photo credits: ThreeArt / BigStock It might be easy to see why countries associated to Horizon Europe are participating more than in previous Framework Programmes – there are more of them. Between FP7 from 2007 – 2013, and now, there are four new associate partners, with a fifth… … | Continue reading
European Patent Office in Rijswijk, Netherlands. Photo credits: EPO European universities have increasingly taken direct control over academic patents during the last two decades, apeing the system in the US, a new study shows,… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Michel Barnier, prime minister of France. Photo credits: Service photographique de Matignon / info.gouv.fr Start-ups in France are calling on the government to reverse plans to cut fiscal incentives as proposed in its 2025 budget, which is up for discussion in the National Assemb … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock In September, three firefighters died tackling wildfires in Portugal, while severe storms and heavy rainfall lashed <… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Marcus Collier, ERC evaluator and grantee. Photo credits: Marcus Collier / X Want to secure a European Research Council (ERC) grant? Plant a ‘Eurovision moment’ in your proposal, says Marcus Collier, ERC evaluator and grantee. … Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: Kevin White / Flickr Participants in Horizon Europe’s Pillar I for basic science are reaping billions from other EU funds, and since 2021 have secured almost €4.5 billion from EU programmes such as Erasmus+, Digital Europe and EU-LIFE, according to a European Commi … | Continue reading
Backed by the research of BSC's Language Technologies Unit and the computational power of MareNostrum 5, Galtea is the first company in Spain to provide a technological and scientific basis for the technical evaluation and regulatory compliance of generative AI. This new technolo … | Continue reading
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT announced on Monday that it will deepen cooperation with the European Union (EU) through the launch of a Korean hub for Gaia-X, the EU’s flagship data platform aimed at building a unified digital market and driving the data economy. This … | Continue reading
On 4 November, Knut Steffensen will be taking up office as the director of the Karolinska ATMP Centre, a leading centre for advanced therapy medicinal products, with research, manufacture and treatment all under one roof. The Read more here | Continue reading
Photo credits: Mike MacKenzie / Flickr If you’re having a hard time keeping track of the new artificial intelligence and data laws in Europe, then you’re in luck: as part of its planning for Horizon Europe research grants, the Commission is considering harnessing AI to monitor… R … | Continue reading
The importance of Arctic methane emissions for the climate, how matter is formed and broken down, evolutionary shifts in the plant kingdom, and new effective methods for producing bioactive substances that will meet future needs for medicines and advanced electronics. These are j … | Continue reading
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) will strengthen collaboration to promote climate action, environmental sustainability, and sustainable finance. In a new agreement, the EIB and the EEA pledged deeper Read more here | Continue reading
Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation. Since 1985, governments and public funding agencies in our network have supported the R&D of over 7,000 ground-breaking commercialised innovations that have positively… Read more her … | Continue reading
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Portugal’s former science minister Manuel Heitor. Photo credits: European Union After months of waiting and speculation, the European Commission’s expert group led by Portugal’s former science minister Manuel Heitor has published a bombshell of a report calling for a momentous ov … | Continue reading
Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council. Photo: European Union European research and innovation policy will be undergoing a major restructuring in the coming years, and for Maria Leptin, president of the European Research Council (ERC), it’s not good news if the … | Continue reading
The European Committee of the Regions' building in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: European Union / Nuno Rodrigues The European Commission’s proposal to bundle most EU research programmes into a competitiveness fund spells trouble for regional innovation, according to the Europ … | Continue reading
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The way the EU funds research and innovation isn’t really working, and the European Commission urgently needs to experiment with new ways to do it, according to a new Read more here | Continue reading
The way the EU funds research and innovation isn’t really working, and the European Commission urgently needs to experiment with new ways to do it, according to a new Read more here | Continue reading
Manuel Heitor, chair of the European Commission's high-level group on Horizon Europe and FP10. Photo: Council of the EU A group of experts tasked with advising the European Commission on the next Framework Programme for research and innovation is recommending a major overhaul of … | Continue reading
Vinnova is commissioned by the government to analyze how a contact point for a regulatory sandbox for net zero technology can work in Sweden. It is about experimental activities to develop technology and regulations in, for example, the energy field, by letting companies test new … | Continue reading
ClinicalKey AI is a leading clinical decision support solution that offers the latest evidence-based clinical information at the point of care. The AI-powered solution answers clinical questions – from simple to complex - enabling reliable and secure access to some of the world’s … | Continue reading
The European Commission's recent work on new space legislation is an opportunity for the CNRS to defend the importance of preserving space research at a time when new threats are arising because of the multiplication of orbital objects. It has been customary since ancient times t … | Continue reading
The European Commission's recent work on new space legislation is an opportunity for the CNRS to defend the importance of preserving space research at a time when new threats are arising because of the multiplication of orbital objects. It has been customary since ancient times t … | Continue reading
A new partnership funded by the Government of Luxembourg, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and CERN aims to use expertise in AI… Read more here | Continue reading
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EMBL is Europe’s life sciences laboratory – an intergovernmental organisation with more than 110 independent research groups and service teams covering the spectrum of molecular biology. It operates across six sites in Heidelberg (headquarters), Barcelona, Cambridge, Grenoble, Ha … | Continue reading
EIB Group president Nadia Calviño before the Eurogroup meeting. Photo credits: Liam McEvoy / EIB The European Investment Bank (EIB) has proposed new measures to support companies in scaling up, to ensure that technologies developed in Europe remain here. At a meeting with… Subscr … | Continue reading
“As open as possible, as close as necessary” is the mantra for international collaboration under Horizon Europe. And looking at the participation of international partners, it seems that the EU has indeed become more selective. <… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: Thijs ter Haar / Flickr Recently released data from the European Commission has shone a light on which countries do particularly well or poorly at winning grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), compared to their… … | Continue reading
The Tech Europe Foundation will be based at Milan’s Parco dei Gasometri, currently being redeveloped as an innovation hub for the Politecnico di Milano. A plan to build up Milan’s innovation ecosystem unveiled in September spans basic research, entrepreneurship and company innova … | Continue reading
Photo credits: digitalista / BigStock CEPI and the Gates Foundation are building a network of infectious disease modellers in the Global South. As a first step, they’re looking for experts to train the future networks of researchers. Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock Last Thursday was World Mental Health Day, an event dedicated to raising awareness about mental health that dates back to 1992. The EU too has a… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Ben Jongbloed, senior researcher at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at the University of Twente. Photo credits: University of Twente As university to-do lists expand inexorably, with new societal and labour challenges to tackle, experts believe this is ushe … | Continue reading
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. One half of the prize has been awarded to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure predic … | Continue reading
EIT Manufacturing and EFFRA call for innovative green manufacturing projects Launching its second call, Innovate Together is inviting previous Made in… Read more here | Continue reading
The FEGA service, developed for sensitive biomedical research data, enables the secure publication of research data. The Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (FEGA) differs from other available publication and analysis services in that the data are not exported from the serv … | Continue reading
During a plenary debate of the Committee of the Regions with European Investment Bank (EIB) Group President Nadia Calviño, the two institutions renewed their common goal to promote convergence and economic growth across the EU’s regions, both in urban and rural areas, with a spec … | Continue reading
Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and analytics, and Times Higher Education (THE) opens in new tab/window, the provider of insights that evaluate university excellence in every… Read more here | Continue reading
A new report shows that research projects at The University of Texas at Arlington contributed nearly one-third of a billion dollars—$302.1 million, to be exact—to the national economy through 976 vendor contracts and subcontracts between 2018 and 2023. Of those contracts, 124 wen … | Continue reading
Fusion energy, the ultimate tool for generating endless clean, safe and decarbonised energy sources, depends on advanced light technologies, according to a new report. A report published today by Europe’s premier platform for light-based… Read more here | Continue reading
Katarina Bjelke, director general at the Swedish Research Council. Research infrastructures have been notably absent in the ongoing discussions about the next EU framework research programme FP10. But without strong investments in these large scale and expensive facilities, we… R … | Continue reading
Keir Starmer (left), Leader of the Labour Party, and Peter Kyle (right), Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, visit AstraZeneca in Macclesfield, 2023. Photo credits: Keir Starmer / Flickr The UK’s new secretary of state for technology has talked up sc … | Continue reading
Peter Kyle (right), UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology, on a tour of CERN earlier this month. Photo credits: Adam Rennie / 2024 CERN The UK’s new secretary of state for technology has talked up scientific and technological cooperation with the EU, in a … | Continue reading