The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Luminor Bank AS today signed a €115 million agreement to facilitate additional lending to small to medium-sized companies and mid-caps in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The blending of the EIB loan with Luminor’s resources will pave the way … | Continue reading
The University of Birmingham’s Brazil Institute celebrated its official opening in the presence of His Excellency Mr Antonio Patriota, Brazil Ambassador to the UK. Building on the work of the Birmingham Brazil Forum, the new Brazil Institute aims to deepen and widen the Universit … | Continue reading
In a significant move to fortify Israel’s high-tech sector during a period of uncertainty, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a substantial expansion of the budget allocated to the Israel Innovation Authority’s Fast-Track program. The program’s funding has been increased … | Continue reading
Large language models (LLMs) are deep learning algorithms trained on vast amounts of text to learn billions of mathematical relationships between words (also called ‘parameters’). They are familiar to most of us as the algorithmic basis for chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and PaLM … | Continue reading
The Association of MBAs (AMBA) has accredited the Entrepreneurial Management MBA programme of The School of Business and Governance at Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), bringing the programme among the global top 2% or 300 and being the first such prestigious accreditat … | Continue reading
Charles Michel, President of the European Council; Justin Trudeau, Canada's Prime Minister; Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission After lengthy negotiations, the EU and Canada reached agreement for Canadian researchers to join Horizon Europe research programm … | Continue reading
Ursula von der Leyen and Justin Trudeau shaking hands after a bilateral meeting in March. Photo: European Commission Canada is to join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95.5 billion programme for research and innovation, according to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. “Canada's joi … | Continue reading
Novo Nordisk announced the investment of more than 16 billion Danish kroner (2.1 billion euros) starting in 20231 to expand the existing production site in Chartres, France, for the current and future product portfolio within serious chronic diseases. The investment will signific … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaking during EU Hydrogen Week. Photo: European Union The European Commission has made a new move to encourage the scale up and deployment of renewable hydrogen, opening the first auction under the European Hydrogen Bank, with … | Continue reading
Charles Michel, president of the European Council (Left), with Olaf Scholz, chancellor of Germany. Photo: European Union Alarm bells for the future research budget are ringing as Germany looks set to say no to the Commission’s proposal to put an extra €100 billion into the EU’s s … | Continue reading
Maroš Šefčovič, vice-president of the European Commission for interinstitutional relations (Left), meeting with Ignazio Cassis, head of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in March 2023. Photo: European Union Swiss university leaders have welcomed the announcement yes … | Continue reading
The Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. Photo: Polymagou / Creative Commons France and Europe’s largest research institute, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), is too bureaucratic, short of money and needs more strategic and transparent gov … | Continue reading
The Federico Iovino group at Karolinska Institutet, and Therakind are initiating an exciting collaboration involving the identification of innate molecules with antimicrobial activity against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, with particular interest for brain infections … | Continue reading
The AI SuperConnector brings together complementary AI innovation expertise at Imperial, York, Leeds and Liverpool universities. Imperial is leading a new accelerator project that will help early career researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) turn their work into startup comp … | Continue reading
On a recent visit to the United Kingdom, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Dr Blade Nzimande, said that South Africa viewed the green hydrogen economy as a transformative opportunity to reindustrialise the country and position itself as a global supplier o … | Continue reading
The University of Birmingham today (23 Nov) launches a major campaign to recruit 125 new researchers and senior academics as it continues to build its strengths in key research areas, driving its ambition to become a Top 50 global university. Commemorating the University’s 125th … | Continue reading
New courses, lecturers and experts will be on offer for students at Coventry University Wrocław after the university forged new links with two companies in Poland. The possibility of paid internships and collaborating on research and development projects are also on the table aft … | Continue reading
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating fraud allegations at three universities in central and eastern Europe. Photo: European Public Prosecutor’s Office The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) is currently investigating three universities in central and e … | Continue reading
A statue of Nicolaus Copernicus outside Poland's Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Photo: Ken Eckert / Creative Commons Last month’s election results sparked hopes for change in the Polish research community, with academics looking to the new government to reform the national scienc … | Continue reading
The main building of the European Commission in Brussels. Photo: Flickr The European Commission is set to announce who will sit on the independent expert group advising the EU on the future research and innovation programme, FP10, in the coming days. “We are currently in the fina … | Continue reading
While start-up accelerator programmes are entirely focused on helping founders on their way to market, corporate accelerators are also looking to provide feedstock and new products for the large companies that sponsor them. Benefits include early access to technologies on the br … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with Chinese president Xi Jinping. Photo: Dati Bendo / European Union Academics in Europe are continuing to work with Chinese counterparts on “clearly problematic” artificial intelligence (AI) research in areas like biometric s … | Continue reading
Opening plenary at the Science|Business Health day event. Political decision makers are in a race against the clock to complete the first reading of the European Union’s ambitious new pharmaceutical legislation before European elections next May—and get it right in the process. … | Continue reading
EU member states are trailing other countries when it comes to research into antimicrobial resistance, a growing public health problem that promises to unleash a “slow pandemic”, undoing some of the gains of modern medicine. Overuse of antibiotics has led to some bacteria develo … | Continue reading
The European University Association (EUA) has drafted its wish list for improvements to Erasmus+, as a three-month consultation on the EU education programme draws to a close. In its feedback, the alliance of more than 800 universities and national rectors’ conferences urges the … | Continue reading
Mathieu Michel, Belgian minister for digitisation Belgium will propose accelerating the development of a European blockchain infrastructure, to store official documents such as driving licences and property titles, when it assumes the presidency of the EU Council at the start of … | Continue reading
Mattias Björnmalm, secretary general of CESAER, an association of universities of science and technology in Europe “Way too many!” This was the reaction of many in the European Research Area (ERA) Forum when over 40 new actions were pitched for the 2025 - 2027 policy agenda – add … | Continue reading
President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron in the LHC tunnel on the occasion of his state visit to Switzerland, with the President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset and CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti. Speaking to journalists during the visit, President Macron … | Continue reading
The university has strengthened its ties with the International Institute of Health Sciences (IIHS) in the South Asian country after signing a Memorandum of Understanding which includes discussions around a branded campus. The collaboration between Coventry University and IIHS be … | Continue reading
Loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) will help support ABB’s research and development, with a focus on the company’s electrification business ABB will use the EIB funding toward next generation electrical distribution solutions, driving the energy transition and improving … | Continue reading
KU Leuven Libraries and Google are excited to announce their collaboration in the Google Books Digitisation Project. Over the course of the next two years more than 70.000 books will be digitised and opened up to the broad public. Today marks a significant milestone as the first … | Continue reading
The Luxembourg Directorate of Defence announced on 15 November 2023 the launch of a Competence Hub in Research in Cybersecurity and Cyber Defence (CyberHub), in partnership with the University of Luxembourg. The CyberHub is intended to strengthen and increase Luxembourg’s ability … | Continue reading
Fraunhofer is the largest organisation for application-oriented research in Europe and coordinates the “Innovation Platform Sustainable Sea and Ocean Solutions” ISSS, which drives networking between applied research, business and policy at the European level. The platform aims to … | Continue reading
The European Commission’s directorate for research and innovation has set up a new unit to develop EU policy on artificial intelligence in science and industry. The unit ‘E4: Industry 5.0 and AI in science’ is one of the big changes in a reshuffle at DG RTD that was expected sinc … | Continue reading
MEP Christian Ehler. Photo: Christian Creutz / European Union Christian Ehler MEP is calling on research stakeholders across the EU to unite in the fight for a strong budget for Framework programme 10 (FP10), as MEPs celebrate clawing back an extra €80 million for Horizon Europe … | Continue reading
US President Joe Biden meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2022. Photo: The White House / Flickr Washington and Beijing have resumed a raft of environment-related collaboration measures, including promises of new support for Chinese and American universities to work toge … | Continue reading
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Photo: Flickr Bulgaria is looking to establish a professional network of national contact points to help researchers win Horizon Europe funding, but the programme’s current coordinator says this will be a difficult process and it could be slow t … | Continue reading
A push is underway in the US to set up a new national entity that would give policymakers a much better overview of the costs and benefits of backing new technologies, from their significance for national security to the possible impacts on economic inequality. In a new era of co … | Continue reading
The reform of the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation will not be adopted ahead of June’s European elections, an MEP involved in the negotiations in parliament has acknowledged. As things stand, the two proposed revisions of the text are diametrically opposed, meaning there are awkwa … | Continue reading
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) and Corporación Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Investigación y la Academia (CEDIA) are pleased to announce the formation of a regional partnership, aimed at further representing the practices and interests of the Ecuadorian research communit … | Continue reading
On 10 November, CERN and the World Food Programme (WFP) took a significant step in formalising their partnership by signing a memorandum of cooperation (MoC). This MoC paves the way for joint initiatives in which CERN’s cutting-edge technologies – including artificial intelligenc … | Continue reading
Namibia possesses almost unique conditions to produce Green Hydrogen, making it a prime cooperation partner for meeting Europe's growing demand for renewable energy carriers. The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is cooperating with Namibia in research for a … | Continue reading
The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Germany, is the world’s leading applied research organisation. By prioritising excellence, transformative technology development and commercialisation of its findings in business and industry, it plays a major role in the innovation process a … | Continue reading
Dan Andrée represents the University Alliance Stockholm Trio in Brussels and is a senior fellow at the Centre Condorcet and the independent High Level Groups on EU Policy Innovation Editor’s note: This viewpoint is part of a series Science|Business is publishing on the Framework … | Continue reading
The European Commission building in Brussels. Photo: Sébastien Bertrand / Flickr The European Parliament and member states reached a deal for next year’s EU budget late on Friday night, agreeing more money for research and innovation than expected. The final deal includes €12.9 … | Continue reading
Former UK science minister George Freeman. Photo: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills / Flickr UK science minister George Freeman has quit during a tumultuous 24 hours in British politics, which saw former prime minister and China-dove David Cameron return to governmen … | Continue reading
Technology Readiness Levels scale. Photo: European Space Agency Technology readiness levels (TRLs) indicate how close a particular innovation might be to the market, but say nothing about the likelihood people will want the product and be able to integrate it into their everyday … | Continue reading