Photo credits: Plantomyc The alternative protein market is rapidly transitioning from niche to mainstream. Protein diversification is no longer just a sustainability trend: Experts regard it as a core pillar for achieving a net-zero, healthy, and resilient food system by 2050, w … | Continue reading
Getting students interested in chemistry should not be difficult — exploring how substances interact and transform gives you a better understanding of how the world works, satisfying your curiosity and providing a sense of discovery. The challenge lies not in the subject… Read m … | Continue reading
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Luka Žuvić, Research Assistant, Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split As he enters a laboratory with saltwater pools full of fish, Luka Žuvić explains how climate change is affecting the feeding ecology and reproductive biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna, and how the spec … | Continue reading
Photo credits: goinyk / BigStock The Romanian government has decided to pare back its yearly contribution to the European Space Agency (ESA) by 35% in order to be able to pay €60 million in accumulated debts to the ESA budget. But some researchers in the field say this could end … | Continue reading
Bernadett Petri, Ministerial Commissioner and managing director at the Hungarian Development Promotion Office. Photo credits: Bernadett Petri Europe’s innovation paradox has become one of the defining challenges of EU policymaking. Despite being home to world-class universities, … | Continue reading
Photo credit: percent/BigStock The European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems (EFECS) returned on 3–4 December 2025, this time in Malta and with a noticeably different tone. Under the banner Read more here | Continue reading
All nine SEA-EU partners sign new legal entity ensuring long-term stability of Alliance beyond EU funding phase. Timeline and agenda for 3rd Erasmus + funding phase also discussed during Alliance Governing Week in Naples.During… Read more here | Continue reading
Polytechnic of Milan, Italy. Photo credits: Simona Balconi / Flickr Universities around Europe have participated in almost 1,000 Horizon Europe innovation projects, with universities in Italy taking the lead. Yet the most successful individual institutions, by number of total pa … | Continue reading
Assembly of a FOSSA Systems satellite. Credit: FOSSA Systems Nato’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (Diana) has selected 150 companies to participate in its 2026 challenge programme, more than double this year’s cohort of 73 companies.This will be the third … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The Nato defensive alliance, covering 32 countries across Europe and North America, has published the call text for its 2026 Science for Peace and Security Programme, a multi-million-euro funding initiative supporting collaborative research on em … | Continue reading
Photo credits: European Union The European Commission is testing new ways to speed up access to funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC), with programme managers set to gain more freedom and responsibility for fast-tracking promising projects from research groups and s … | Continue reading
Could humans learn from the Arctic ground squirrel, which can hibernate with sub-zero body temperatures for weeks at a time? Photo credits: PhotoSpirit / BigStock Human hibernation enabling interstellar travel. Genetically engineered mitochondria powered by light that could slow … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Shannon Potter / Unsplash The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is strengthening its relationship with the Enterprise European Network (EEN), an EU-funded network that helps small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from the opportunities offe … | Continue reading
The G6 of science, comprising six major European research organisations, welcomes the Commission’s proposal for the FP10 legislative package1 and preserving Horizon Europe as a stand-alone programme. The G6 appreciates the relevance given to research and innovation (R&I), which h … | Continue reading
At its 225th session, the CERN Council received the recommendations for the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the aim of which is to develop a common vision for the future of the field. The recommendations will be reviewed by the Council in the coming months. … | Continue reading
The UN-ETH Forum held in Zurich at the end of October demonstrated how researchers can contribute their expertise and know-how to international political issues. Various ongoing projects already illustrate the effectiveness of this cooperation. In brief … Read more here | Continue reading
Finland has an excellent opportunity to become a global leader and a European frontrunner in AI adoption. The Finnish universities’ joint AI initiatives will be defined during spring 2026.How will AI transform research, education, and innovation? Finnish universities are collabor … | Continue reading
Cloud services and AI tools are increasingly becoming an integral component of modern research and are transforming the way science is conducted. As adoption grows, so does the need for training and support that enable institutions to make the most effective and well informed use … | Continue reading
Applications are now open for the position of Senior Research Funding Specialist (SRFS) within the Research Development Office (RDO), located in Trinity Research.The SRFS is a senior role, responsible for the design and delivery of a suite of professional supports to… Read more … | Continue reading
Applications are now open for the position of Senior Research Funding Specialist (SRFS) within the Research Development Office (RDO), located in Trinity Research.The SRFS is a senior role, responsible for the design and delivery of a suite of professional supports to… Read more … | Continue reading
People with intellectual disabilities will sit at the heart of a new research partnership between universities and industry that will develop new, more inclusive assessments for a wider spectrum of cognitive abilities.The collaboration is known as the Behavioural… Read more here | Continue reading
A deal was reached at around 6am on December 11. Photo credits: Emilie Gomez / European Union The European Parliament and the EU Council have reached a provisional agreement on revamping the EU’s pharmaceutical legislation, after overnight negotiations on both the directive and … | Continue reading
Credit line to strengthen Europe’s semiconductor industry and support innovation, sustainability and energy efficiency in line with EU objectivesFirst €500 million tranche signed to support acceleration of R&D and high-volume chip manufacturing in Italy and France.The… Read more … | Continue reading
Five-year partnership creates joint research lab to tackle foundational problems concerning model training, safety and societal impact.Thomson Reuters (TSX/Nasdaq: TRI), and Imperial College London today announced a five-year… Read more here | Continue reading
President Balázs Gulyás and CEO Roland Jakab visited two key institutions of the Swiss research and innovation ecosystem: ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and the Paul Scherrer Institute. In meetings with representatives of both institutions, they agreed to … | Continue reading
Biodiversity is the foundation of life on Earth. To protect it, we need innovative tools that guide science-based decisions. The BioDT project, coordinated by CSC, brought digital twins to biodiversity science, helping Europe respond faster to global biodiversity and climate chal … | Continue reading
Photo credits: BigStock/Peach_BigStockPhoto “For European innovation to be successful, it has to be based on human values,” Maria Pilar Aguar Fernández, director of people, health and society at the DG for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, told the Read more … | Continue reading
“For European innovation to be successful, it has to be based on human values,” Maria Pilar Aguar Fernández, director of people, health and society at the DG for Research and Innovation of the European Commission, told the Read more here | Continue reading
Henna Virkkunen, executive vice-president of the European Commission. Photo credits: Aurore Martignoni / European Union The European Commission’s new data-simplification plan is being met with optimism among research leaders, who see a valuable opportunity to advance open scienc … | Continue reading
Photo credits: tashatuvango / BigStock The European Commission has released its plans for funding research and innovation in the next two years of the current Horizon Europe programme, 2026-27. This is the culmination of a months-long drafting process, which this year the… Read … | Continue reading
The six new members of the ERC Scientific Council. Photo credits: ERC Executive Agency Six new members and three promoted vice-presidents are set to join the European Research Council (ERC) scientific council at a key time for the future of the EU’s prestigious frontier research … | Continue reading
Photo credits: National Cancer Institute / Unsplash The EU is a strong global research power, and has held a constant share of world publications over the past decade even as the US has declined, a new report has found. https://images.ctfassets.net/o78em1y1w4i4/5a0tAfrzoGSV328c1 … | Continue reading
Danish science minister Christina Egelund. Photo credits: European Union EU governments have made progress in negotiations over the Horizon Europe programme for 2028-34, particularly on the fundamental research pillar. But more clarification is needed around links to the Europea … | Continue reading
Europe’s share of global clinical trials has slid from over 25% to 19.3% in the past decade, according to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) weighed down by rising… Read more here | Continue reading
EU research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva. Photo credits: Jennifer Jacquemart / European Union The European Commission is considering the creation of a “fast-track” mechanism that would give selected Horizon Europe projects easy access to the forthcoming European Competitiven … | Continue reading
EU research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva. Photo credits: Jennifer Jacquemart / European Union The European Commission is considering the creation of a “fast-track” mechanism that would give selected Horizon Europe projects easy access to the forthcoming European Competitiven … | Continue reading
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Photo credits: EpicStockMedia / BigStock EIT Water, the EU’s new community for water-related innovation, is set to start work in 2026, with the first calls for projects and training launching in 2027.The new knowledge and innovation community will be the tenth launched by the Eu … | Continue reading
Photo credits: Kartik Sheth / LinkedIn As Europe mulls how best to poach US-based scientists fleeing cuts and hostility from the administration of Donald Trump, one space scientist heading for Marseille has urged funders to allow Americans to retain some of their old ties. Sub … | Continue reading
Photo credits: DragosCondrea / BigStock The EU’s researcher training and mobility programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) has always been bottom-up, allowing researchers to apply for projects in any field of science. But it does not mean each field is funded equally.Over … | Continue reading
Photo credits: zverge / BigStock The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has issued a call for proposals worth a total of €70 million to strengthen the links between universities and industry. This lines up with EU policies such as the Start-up and Scale-up Str … | Continue reading
Gradium founders including Neil Zeghidour, third from left. Photo credits: Gradium Voice AI start-up Gradium announced itself with a bang last week, reporting a massive $70 million seed round and the release of its first product, just three months after launching in stealth mode … | Continue reading
Gross R&D expenditure relative to GDP from 2014 to 2024. Source: Eurostat and OECD database The European Union spent €403.1 billion on R&D in 2024, up 3.6% on the previous year, according to new data from Eurostat Subscribe to read more | Continue reading
Photo credits: Sander Weeteling / Unsplash EU research funding related to climate change is shifting towards the market, according to observers, with less money available for work on climate mechanisms, early-stage technologies and societal drivers. This trend is expected to inc … | Continue reading
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