Owning intellectual property (IP) rights significantly boosts the ability of start-ups to raise funds, according to a new report from the EU Intellectual Property Office and the European Patent Office. Start-ups are 2.5 times more likely to obtain seed funding after filing for a … | Continue reading
We cannot be naïve: rising pressure from Western governments in recent years to toughen research security was bound to affect science and universities – and the data show that’s indeed happening. Risk profiling, screening and export control are starting to have effects: for examp … | Continue reading
Irregularities have been discovered in grants distributed by Poland's National Centre for Research and Development. Photo: Kamil Tracz / Flickr Poland’s Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has reported finding “numerous irregularities” in the distribution of grants by the National Centre … | Continue reading
There is a push from certain EU member states for Horizon Europe’s Widening measures to be opened to regions across the continent, rather than focussed on specific member states as is now the case. There have been no formal discussions about such a shift, but several EU diplomat … | Continue reading
Donald Tusk, leader of the Civic Coalition (KO), is in pole position to be Poland's next prime minister following Sunday's election. Photo: Donald Tusk / Twitter (X) Academics in Poland say the election result could help research and higher education move towards a greater degree … | Continue reading
The European Research Council (ERC) and European Innovation Council (EIC) have pushed back four call application deadlines after warnings from Israeli applicants that they need more time, given the impact of Hamas’s attack on the country. Earlier this week, Israeli researchers t … | Continue reading
Eureka is the world’s biggest public network for international cooperation in R&D and innovation. Since 1985, national and regional ministries and funding agencies in our network have supported the R&D of over 7,000 ground-breaking commercialised innovations that have positively … | Continue reading
Jonathan Stamler, president of the Harrington Discovery Institute Nothing is easy about developing treatments for rare diseases. Patient populations are small, research funding scarce and markets limited. Yet almost all therapies that do emerge will need some form of commercialis … | Continue reading
MEPs are calling on the EU Council to fulfil its promises on strategic autonomy, after voting through their negotiating position on the Strategic Technologies for European Platform (STEP) in Strasbourg today. MEPs are requesting a further €3 billion from national budgets to add t … | Continue reading
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen first announced the New European Bauhaus initiative in 2021. Photo: European Union EU member states aren’t sold on the European Commission’s idea of turning the New European Bauhaus into a Horizon Europe Mission, several EU diplo … | Continue reading
A view of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Photo: Hebrew University of Jerusalem / Facebook Israeli scientists have described how Hamas’s attack on the country has all but brought research to a standstill, with researchers now called up for a military assault on Gaza. With ma … | Continue reading
MEP Tsvetelina Penkova. Photo: Mathieu Cugnot / European Union MEPs are calling for the creation of a comprehensive start-up and scale-up strategy based on a new definition of this type of company that takes account of the particular problems they face. Current legislation relati … | Continue reading
Research teams encouraged to bid for a share of £32m for AI projects and a further £5m committed to feasibility studies into pioneering ideas. In the run up to the UK’s hosting of the first global summit on artificial intelligence (AI) safety, the Secretary of State for Science, … | Continue reading
EIB Vice-President Czerwińska expressed the Bank’s continuing support for the enlargement process and economic convergence of the Western Balkan region. EIB Global is set to increase its financial and technical support for renewables, energy efficiency and energy distribution and … | Continue reading
A new, three-year CERN-based programme will make quantum computing resources and technical expertise available to projects designed to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new programme is called the Open Quantum Institute (OQI). Hosted by CERN, the OQI has … | Continue reading
Feeding ten billion people by 2050 will be a formidable challenge. Especially considering that 10% of the world’s population is already hungry today and that around 30% is malnourished. And to achieve zero hunger – as set out in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2 – tha … | Continue reading
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's presentation of its roadmap on a circular bioeconomy in Brussels on September 20, 2023, reflected the shared commitment of Fraunhofer experts and EU stakeholders to achieve a sustainable, competitive, and bioeconomic future. As Peter Wehrheim (Head of Un … | Continue reading
The European Commission’s research and innovation chief Marc Lemaître. Photo: Christophe Licoppe / European Union The European Commission’s research and innovation chief Marc Lemaître says it’s time to begin the conversation on the next EU research programme, which is due to star … | Continue reading
Swiss voters will go to the polls on October 22 as the country’s scientists endure another year locked out of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme. In May 2021, Swiss leaders walked away from negotiations to agree a new overarching deal between Brussels and … | Continue reading
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings list published in September had a notable absence: a regular in the top 100, Utrecht University had withdrawn, citing concerns about the rankings’ emphasis on scoring and competition. The move comes at a time when there are a … | Continue reading
The Biden Administration is planning a campaign to attract Russian scientists and engineers to the US, in an effort to further weaken Russia’s science and technology base. It also plans to help Russian physicists at the CERN nuclear lab continue working there, rather than return … | Continue reading
Nobel prize winner Edvard Moser is calling on EU officials not to undervalue the critical role early-stage science has played in paving the way for the rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines this past year. | Continue reading
Industries that rely on physics expertise contribute more to the EU economy than financial services or retail, according to a new study. | Continue reading
Around the world, excitement about artificial intelligence (AI) is spurring new investment, companies, labs, products – and plenty of work for those trying to figure out how to regulate it internationally. | Continue reading
European universities are paying more than one billion euros per year for access to journals run by the leading science publishers, according to a new survey from the European University Association (EUA) of ‘big deal’ contracts for access to large bundles of journals. The survey … | Continue reading