Vasile Alecsandru Strat, dean of the Bucharest Business School and associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Econometrics within the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics. Photo courtesy of Vasile Alecsandru Strat Participation in the Common Eu … | Continue reading
The Europa building, the seat of the European Council and Council of the European Union, in Brussels. Photo credits: European Union EU leaders are considering setting a target for public and private research and innovation spending to reach 4% of GDP, even as they cut national re … | Continue reading
As the debate about the future of Widening in the next Framework programme for Research (FP10) is heating up, Science|Business assembled a group of leading research and innovation actors to help research stakeholders and policymakers find the best ways to unlock the EU’s full res … | Continue reading
Photo credits: peshkov / BigStock Europe may still be lagging behind when it comes to 5G uptake, but attention is already turning to the race for the next generation of wireless technology and ensuring it delivers on its promises this time. … Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Susan Healy, professor of biology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and former ERC evaluator. Photo courtesy of Susan Healy Scientists aren’t known for being the best at getting their message across, but clarity and avoidance of obscure terminology can go a long way when … | Continue reading
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Flush with the income from the EU Emissions Trading System, the Innovation Fund, set up to demonstrate the feasibility of low-carbon technologies, has since 2021 awarded €12 billion.<… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Portugal’s former science minister Manuel Heitor during the publication event of the High-Level Group report on the mid-term review of Horizon Europe on October 16, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union Former Portuguese prime minster Manuel He … | Continue reading
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If you have a hot research project, where are you going to go for the money? What if you’re in a small company trying to develop cool new product? A multinational looking to expand its research network, or a university wanting to broaden its funding sources? <… Read more here | Continue reading
Our Future Health is now the largest longitudinal cohort study in the world that uses blood samples, with over a million people from across the UK having joined. The health research programme was set up with funding from UK Research and Innovation’s Accelerating Detection of Dise … | Continue reading
"Congratulations to the 16 projects that have been awarded funding today. This is research that is of high quality and helps to push the boundaries of what we know. Over time, society strengthens both its ability to innovate and its readiness for knowledge by investing in project … | Continue reading
Following the CNRS's first carbon footprint assessment for 2019, the organisation has now published its second carbon audit for 2022. The latest report is more precise than 2019's, measuring the initial successes of our low-carbon transition plan while pinpointing methodological … | Continue reading
From particle physics to intellectual history – as part of their joint call for proposals, the SNSF and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) are supporting research projects with a total of 7.6 million francs. In early summer 2022, the SNSF signed an agreement with … | Continue reading
Photo credits: InnoEnergy / Flickr The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) will continue cooperating with its first three knowledge and innovation communities (KICs) on a number of activities after they are due to become financially autonomous in 2025. … Subscribe … | Continue reading
Photo credits: InnoEnergy / Flickr The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) will continue cooperating with its first three knowledge and innovation communities (KICs) on a number of activities after they are due to become financially autonomous in 2025. … Read more … | Continue reading
Manuel Heitor, former chair of the European Commission’s expert group on the future of the Framework Programme for research and innovation. Photo: CESAER Securing the necessary resources and political support for the next research programme, FP10 will require nothing less than a … | Continue reading
On 7 October, the interplanetary probe Hera has been launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. Together with Hera, the Milani CubeSat and its team are ready to embark on an amazing journey from the Earth to Didymos, a double asteroid chosen as target of the first planetary… Read more he … | Continue reading
An Imperial expert in the use artificial intelligence in healthcare has been appointed to the German Ethics Council. Aldo Faisal, Professor of AI and Neuroscience at Imperial College London and leading global expert in… Read more here | Continue reading
Addressing major societal challenges such as clean energy, sustainable food systems, and improved water management increasingly relies on computational science. To enhance Dutch expertise and innovation in this field, the Computational Science NL Foundation was last week. UT rese … | Continue reading
The project aims range from better understanding quantum systems to improving future sea-level projections, and from investigating improved battery potential to developing new drug probes. The Trinity winners are: Michael Monaghan (Professor, School of…Read more here | Continue reading
The University of Luxembourg proudly announces the appointment of Prof. Ralf Seppelt as the Director of its new interdisciplinary centre for Socio-Environmental Systems, effective March 1, 2025. This strategic appointment was confirmed by the Board of Governors, following a propo … | Continue reading
Signe Ratso (right), Commission’s chief negotiator for association deals, speaking at a Science|Business event with European Investment Bank's Catherine Bender (centre) and Luca Bedon, head of R&T at Avio Aero. Photo credits: Jeroen Vanhecke / Science|Business Brussels is prepari … | Continue reading
The European Innovation Council (EIC) plans to invest up to €300 million in strategic technologies next year, in a major push to fill the market gap in financing European deep tech scale-ups, according to a Read more here | Continue reading
The European Innovation Council (EIC) plans to invest up to €300 million in strategic technologies next year, in a major push to fill the market gap in financing European deep tech scale-ups, according to a Read more here | Continue reading
Photo credits: artjazz / BigStock As part of its drive for tech autonomy, the European Commission is hatching plans to spend €1.47 billion next year on a range of industrial, space and digital technologies that could give the EU a competitive edge in global markets, according to … | Continue reading
On this page, you can find links to the draft Horizon Europe work programmes for 2025, and the official work programmes for 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. These are the documents that spell out the research topics, timing and budgets the Commission plans. But Science|Business is also … | Continue reading
Portugal’s former science minister Manuel Heitor during the publication event of the High-Level Group report on the mid-term review of Horizon Europe on October 16, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union The Widening programme should be restruct … | Continue reading
Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner designate for Start-ups, Research and Innovation. Photo credits: Aurore Martignoni / European Union Ekaterina Zaharieva, commissioner designate for Start-ups, Research and Innovation has diffused fears that research funding will be merged in a me … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Fred Romero / Flickr The European Commission is planning to launch the first European Innovation Council (EIC) pre-accelerator calls in 2025 for start-ups in Widening countries, according to Read more here | Continue reading
Tech Zity Vilnius project. Photo credits: Tech Zity Two gigantic construction projects underway in Lithuania promise to transform the country’s start-up ecosystem. Both are being promoted as the biggest of their kind in Europe, providing much needed space and services for… Read m … | Continue reading
Tech Zity Vilnius project. Photo credits: Tech Zity Two gigantic construction projects underway in Lithuania promise to transform the country’s start-up ecosystem. Both are being promoted as the biggest of their kind in Europe, providing much needed space and services for… Read m … | Continue reading
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
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
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