A common denominator in both the green transition and digitalization is the semiconductor. Despite the great importance of the small chip, Sweden and EU have lagged behind. KTH, Lund University, Chalmers University of Technology and various Swedish companies are now joining force … | Continue reading
The government of the Netherlands has allocated €200 million from the country’s National Growth Fund for a public-private consortium that will conduct research into 'microbiomes' and economically interesting applications thereof. The funds, which will add to €150 million that the … | Continue reading
The Horizon Europe Connect Fund will bolster support for Imperial’s academics to apply for and win grants from the prestigious funding programme. Horizon Europe is the world’s biggest research and innovation funding programme and its current grant scheme runs until 2027. Imperial … | Continue reading
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, on the right, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union A European Commission decision to consider admitting Egypt to its Horizon Europe research programme is stirring concern over the … | Continue reading
The European Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking (JU) is eager to accelerate research and innovation and improve pan-European collaboration. The time required for the development, testing and certification of commercial aircraft technology mean the technologies that Europe will need … | Continue reading
Reinhold Geilsdörfer, managing director of science at Dieter Schwarz Foundation. Photo credits: Fotoatelier-M Science|Business - Table.Media partnership Science|Business has partnered with Table.Media, a leading source of news about higher education and research in Germany. Each … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The European Commission wants to encourage researchers to use generative AI, but also warns of risks to the scientific process saying, “These tools could harm research integrity and raise questions about the ability of current models to combat decept … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The European Commission wants to encourage researchers to use generative AI tools, but not in the evaluation of proposals, according to new guidelines published on Wednesday. The Commission developed the non-binding guidelines with European Research … | Continue reading
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Photo credits: Angelov / BigStock Science|Business plans to roll out a newsletter tailored for research and innovation professionals. This article provides a sneak peek into the kind of information you may expect in the coming weeks, ahead of a full launch this spring. With its A … | Continue reading
The European Commission this week published its strategic plan for the final three years of Horizon Europe, 2025 to 2027. This builds on the first half of the seven-year research and innovation programme, and while overall similar, there are small differences. For a start, the ne … | Continue reading
Paolo Gentiloni, European commissioner for economy, at the R&I Days on Wednesday. Photo credits: European Innovation Council team / European Union The EU should extend its unprecedented post-pandemic common borrowing spree to fund research and innovation and prevent the bloc fall … | Continue reading
“If a university elects its first female rector in its history, it means that there is a strong need for comprehensive change”, said Gülsün Sağlamer, the first female Rector of Istanbul Technical University and the Founding Honorary President of EWORA – the European Women Rectors … | Continue reading
Timo Pesonen, Director-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS), on Defence Strategy and the EDIP proposal during ITRE committee on Wednesday. Emilie Gomez / European Union The European Defence Fund (EDF) could in future be integrated into an overarching defence programme, … | Continue reading
Latest news BULGARIA AIMS BIG: Bulgaria “absolutely” can be an innovation leader in Europe, the country’s minister for innovation and growth tells Science|Business. First, Milena Stoycheva wants to position the country as a regional hub for high tech start-up activity and she is … | Continue reading
Latest news BULGARIA AIMS BIG: Bulgaria “absolutely” can be an innovation leader in Europe, the country’s minister for innovation and growth tells Science|Business. First, Milena Stoycheva wants to position the country as a regional hub for high tech start-up activity and she is … | Continue reading
Milena Stoycheva, Minister of Innovation and Growth in Bulgaria. They say crisis breeds opportunity and Bulgaria’s minister of innovation and growth, a self-described ‘policypreneur’, is ready to seize it with both hands. Milena Stoycheva was drafted into her position in June la … | Continue reading
The University of Bucharest in University Square, Bucharest, Romania. Photo credits: John R Chandler / Flickr Recent elections of rectors in Romania have extended long-standing leadership in universities across the country, with only six of 38 civilian state universities voting i … | Continue reading
Montenegro's prime minister Milojko Spajić meets EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Podgorica, 31 October 2023. Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union EU candidate countries should have more of a say in shaping the EU’s next research and innovation framew … | Continue reading
Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian deputy prime minister and minister of Social Affairs and Public Health. Photo credit: Alain Rolland / European Union The European Parliament and the Council of the EU have reached a deal on the European Health Data Space (EHDS), a piece of legislation … | Continue reading
Tiemo Wölken, rapporteur for the regulation. Photo credit: Emilie Gomez / European Union The most significant reform to the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation in over two decades took a step closer today as the European Parliament’s Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) … | Continue reading
The last ESOF event took place in 2022. Photo: EuroScience Open Forum / Flickr EuroScience, the association behind the European Science Open Forum (ESOF), Europe’s largest science conference has gone bankrupt after failing to secure funding for the 2026 event. This year’s ESOF wi … | Continue reading
A framework for testing the innovation needed to transition to regenerative agriculture in a range of different European landscapes has been launched by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s (EIT) Food and Dutch agri-food ecosystem Foodvalley. EIT Food will put €1 … | Continue reading
9th BRICS Summit, Xiamen International Conference Centre in China, September 2017. Photo credit: South African Government / Flickr Think of the BRICS, and you might imagine, fairly or not, the world’s strongmen – plus a few democratically elected leaders from the Global South - c … | Continue reading
As of June 1st, 2024, Professor Ted Sanders will be appointed to the position of Vice Rector of Research at Utrecht University. He is Professor of Dutch language use and discourse studies at the Faculty of Humanities, and Vice Dean of Research and Impact in the Faculty Board sinc … | Continue reading
Maria da Graça Carvalho MEP. Photo credit: Frédéric Marvaux / European Union The European Parliament wants to maintain the “multiplicity of instruments in Horizon Europe” in FP10, the next framework programme from 2028, said Maria da Graça Carvalho MEP, following repeated calls f … | Continue reading
Source: EIC Impact Report 2023 The European Innovation Council (EIC) announced that the total portfolio value of EIC supported companies has surged to nearly €70 billion at the end of 2023, marking a substantial €20 billion increase in just a year. The EIC presented yesterday the … | Continue reading
Iacopo Gronchi is a policy expert at Demos Helsinki and PhD candidate at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Three years on from the inception of EU Missions, enthusiasm around them seems somehow dimmed – with the cancellation of a potential … | Continue reading
Iacopo Gronchi is a policy expert at Demos Helsinki and PhD candidate at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Three years on from the inception of EU Missions, enthusiasm around them seems somehow dimmed – with the cancellation of a potential … | Continue reading
Photo: MPG website. The Senate of the Max Planck Society launched the Climate Action Plan for climate-neutral research operations presented by President Patrick Cramer on 15 March. The plan envisages that the Max Planck Society will halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2029 comp … | Continue reading
Over the last few years, the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has been working towards taking European supercomputing to new historic heights by installing new machines capable of competing with their global counterparts: three pre-exascale, five petascale and two future exascale superc … | Continue reading
The Board of Directors NATO's DIANA initiative has approved Finland's proposal to establish a business accelerator and two testing centres in Finland. The Ministry of Defence submitted Finland's proposal to DIANA's Board of Directors in July 2023. The Ministry of Defence acts as … | Continue reading
Imperial will lead a new London programme to boost the training, careers, and recognition available to digital research technical professionals (RTPs) The work of RTPs is at the heart of world-class research. The new £2m consortium, which is called A Strategic TEchnical Platform … | Continue reading
On March 18, on the Campus Montréal site, the federal government announced the results of several grant competitions through Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Polytechnique Montréal achieved the best research funding results in its history, with combined commit … | Continue reading
Following the successful 2023 Irish Tech Challenge programme which saw a group of young South African entrepreneurs showcasing their tech start-ups in Ireland, the 2024 installment of the challenge will be launched on 15 March 2024. Ireland's Minister for Housing, Local Governmen … | Continue reading
Clusters can create hotspots that attract investments, forging new, and reshaping existing value chains in the EU, while securing the production capacity of critical inputs for manufacturing, energy, health, and defence. This dynamic will be the focus of the 9th edition of the Eu … | Continue reading
The Spanish National Research Council is the main agent responsible for implementing the Spanish System for Science, Technology and Innovation. The mission of the Spanish National Research Council is to promote, coordinate, develop and disseminate scientific and technological mu … | Continue reading
Brando Benifei (right) and Dragoş Tudorache, co-rapporteurs on the AI Act, during the press conference on the AI Act plenary vote. Photo credit: Mathieu Cugnot / European Union A month before schedule, MEPs adopted the AI Act with a resounding majority, voting through the world's … | Continue reading
Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German Federal Minister for Education and Research. Photo credit: Picture Alliance for DLD / Hubert Burda Media In the debate over more funding for military research, underlying assumptions often go unexamined, and concrete measures are rarely specified. … | Continue reading
NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credit: NATO NATO has announced a major expansion of its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) programme, which helps companies develop military applications of dual-use technologies, as it prepares to reach fu … | Continue reading
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Photo credit: European Union Science|Business plans to roll out a newsletter tailored for research and innovation professionals. This article provides a sneak peek into the kind of information you may expect in the coming weeks, ahead of a full launch this spring. In April, the E … | Continue reading
Kristjan Vassil, associate professor of technology research at the University of Tartu. Photo credit: Annika Metsla In mid-January, Estonian security services apprehended Viacheslav Morozov, professor of international political theory at the University of Tartu, the oldest univer … | Continue reading
Yin Hejun, China's minister of science and technology. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Closely watched science and technology indicators from Washington DC show the US is still the world’s biggest spender on research and development, confounding expectations that China would takeover th … | Continue reading
Photo: EIT Health website. EIT Health welcomes eight new Partners to our community. Amongst the organisations are research focused Paris Cité University, neurology leader Ontario Brain Institute and Japanese owned global medical device operator Terumo Corporation. EIT Health has … | Continue reading
German and UK Science Secretaries met at the White City Deep Tech Campus yesterday to sign a new partnership agreement that will deepen science links. Germany’s Minister of Education and Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, and Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technol … | Continue reading
In 1954, the Catholic university 'Lovanium' was founded in the former Belgian Congo – a mixed campus with Leuven professors and both Congolese and European students. Over the years, Lovanium grew to include two Congolese universities, UNIKIN and UCC, and to this day there is clos … | Continue reading
Cyril Robin-Champigneul, EU science and research counsellor to the UK. Photo credit: Kari Bellamy A new milestone in the revival of EU-UK science relations has been reached with the launch of EIT Hub UK by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), following the U … | Continue reading