The Commission’s proposal to create a new group of “transition” countries in the next Widening programme has been broadly welcomed by the research community. Yet key details on how countries will be ...

EU governments are hopeful that the future of Widening measures, which support member states with lower innovation capacities to participate in Horizon Europe, will not stand in the way of a swift ...

Universities remain the backbone of social and technological progress, even if in some European societies their role is too often questioned. We create knowledge, educate future leaders and drive ...

On September 29, at a get-together in Brussels, the European Union and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) struck a deal to work more closely together on research and ...

Calls for proposals across five topics in 2026-27 will act as pilots for the European Commission’s upcoming AI in science strategy. The strategy’s main aim is to establish the Resource for AI Science ...

Amid the European rush to attract disenchanted US researchers, the Volkswagen Foundation is experimenting with a different approach: grants for US researchers to split their time between the US and ...

EU governments want to launch a European Life Sciences Investment Fund, as part of a coordinated strategy to make Europe an attractive place for private investment in research and innovation.

EU governments say there is an “urgent need” for an “ambitious and forward-looking” follow-up to the EU Chips Act, in a declaration presented to the European Commission on September 29.

Japan is edging closer to signing off on a deal to join the EU’s €93.5 billion Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, with research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva flying to the country on ...

Academic repression is increasingly being felt in traditionally democratic countries, according to a report from Scholars at Risk. The most striking case is the US, where a gradual erosion of academic ...

Europe must reduce its dependence on foreign-controlled databases, particularly those in the US, the European Parliament has heard. Dependence on these resources leaves European researchers and ...

Significant gaps are appearing in international efforts to address the state of the oceans, according to Pascal Lamy. “At a time when, unfortunately, we see the US distancing themselves from ocean ...