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
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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
Photo credits: DFSB DE / Flickr Industry is calling on the EU to step up investment in civil security by setting up a new programme covering everything from research to procurement - which could mean moving existing research support out of Horizon Europe. … Read more here | Continue reading
Recently, the CDTI innovation has held in singapore, the innovation in Neuroscience, Tecnología e Inteligencia Artificial (IA) that have been aimed at creating a platform for dialogue to allow the sector ’ s spanish entities show their skills and innovation in different areas of … | Continue reading
The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) opened the Western Balkans Ministerial Meeting in Skopje with a dedicated session highlighting its key role in promoting research cooperation in the region. A newly presented study showed an impressive doubling of their pa … | Continue reading
Imperial and the National University of Singapore (NUS) have announced a new partnership to strengthen research collaborations. The three-year partnership will see the two universities explore cooperation in early-stage research and ideas that might not otherwise be pursued. Read … | Continue reading
Victor Negrescu MEP, rapporteur for the 2025 budget. Photo credits: Mathieu Cugnot / European Union MEPs have voted for a €242 million boost to Horizon Europe for next year, as part of a bid to head off a total of €1.52 million in cuts member states have proposed to the 2025 EU b … | Continue reading
The European Commission is making moves to bundle all research and innovation funds, including the European Research Council (ERC) and the European Innovation Council (EIC), into a new mega competitiveness fund that would be launched under the new multiannual budget due to start … | Continue reading
András Inotai (first from left), head of unit for innovation policy at the European Commission’s research directorate, Nada Witzanyová (second from left), senior external affairs manager at ELI-ERIC, Anastas Mishev (third from left), professor of computer science and engineering … | Continue reading
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán presenting the programme of activities of the Hungarian Presidency at the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, on October 9, 2024. Photo credits: Philippe Buissin / European Union Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says his government is go … | Continue reading
The Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) has hit back at government plans to reform the structure of the academy, claiming the ministry of science is attempting to impose political control. The government says the goal is to “democratise” the academy… Read more here | Continue reading
Future Needs is a Cyprus-based SME which helps Tech-innovators get their R&D funded and overcome the “death valley curve” for their new products. We do so in 3 ways: 1) by helping our clients apply for funding and develop sustainable business models, 2) by optimizing the design o … | Continue reading
Photo credits: DLR German Aerospace Center / ESA Researchers, space agencies and companies from around the world will have access to a new facility in Cologne designed to recreate the moon’s surface, to research, develop and test their technologies. … Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
A new Horizon Europe rare disease partnership will launch its first calls in December, as it embarks on a seven-year mission to consolidate research and improve treatment. Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Zarah Bruhn (third from right), social impact start-up founder and Commissioner for Social Innovation at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, at the launch of the Social Impact Republic in September. Photo courtesy of Startups for Future. Start-ups with a social missio … | Continue reading
Enora Pruvot, deputy director for governance, funding and public policy development at the EUA. Photo credits: EUA As budgets stretch thin, the first place universities are looking to diversify and top up their incomes is EU funding, according to a new survey by the European Univ … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The last month has seen a surge in calls related to health research, with deadlines set for November or later. Here’s a list of some current grant opportunities: In mid-September,… Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering. Photo credits: Royal Academy of Engineering The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering is distributing £150 million in grants to researchers who want to build commercially viable new green technologies, in what it says is a “unique” funding model. … … | Continue reading