The escalating security situation on Europe’s eastern border means that a larger range of research can now be classified as dual-use. As a result, excluding dual-use research from Horizon Europe…

While it’s not up to universities to set deadlines for EU institutions, “lost time” in the run-up to the launch of the next Horizon Europe would translate into “lost momentum” for universities,…

Stéphane Séjourné, the commissioner responsible for prosperity and industrial strategy, has urged national ministers not to water down the European Commission’s proposal for an EU-wide company…

The European Commission has added two new big funding schemes to Horizon Europe in a €507 million update to the programme’s 2026-27 funding calls. These cover key Commission policy priorities in…

The EU needs to invest an additional €565 billion in R&D to reach 3% of its GDP by the end of the decade, according to the latest European Commission report on the Science, Research and Innovation…

Plans to drop a target for semiconductor production in the EU are unlikely to be opposed in the European Parliament, according to two key MEPs working on the file. Instead, the policy should help the…

Artificial intelligence is in many ways a divisive technology, but at the high levels of government in central and eastern Europe (CEE), it is having a unifying effect.

The quality of local authorities in one region can positively impact private-sector R&D expenditure in neighbouring regions, according to a new study. The research looked at 48 southern European regio...

The Widening instrument may be a relatively small part of Horizon Europe, but its strategic relevance in geopolitically turbulent times cannot be overlooked. As a direct result of enlargement – one…

The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has urged the international scientific community not to “restore or legitimise institutional cooperation with Russian state scientific and educational struc...

Everything comes with AI these days, and knowledge transfer in universities is no exception. Generative AI is being put to work on routine tasks, such as summarising legal advice and checking contract...

The Spanish La Caixa Foundation has launched a €22 million call for biomedical and health research projects, open to both individual and consortium projects at any stage of maturity, from basic to tra...

Change is coming at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). According to Stefan Dobrev, chairman of the EIT governing board, the knowledge and innovation communities (KICs) should s...

For young people hoping to start a PhD in a European country, the map below is worth a look. It tracks remuneration levels for doctoral candidates in most countries in Europe, and from just €2,263 a y...

Research ministers from the Nordics and Baltics, plus Poland and Romania, sent a joint statement to the European Parliament and European Commission on September 28 urging them to support dual-use…

The European Commission has come up with a long-awaited proposal for slimming down the portfolio of Horizon Europe industrial partnerships, offering EU governments three potential scenarios for reduci...

The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Group want to make it easier for institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds to invest in innovative companies....

Europe’s research and innovation sector has started asking questions on how European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s offer to make Canada “the first associate member of the EU” would actua...

The push to create a funding instrument in the next Horizon Europe that allows research institutions to bid for long-term grants in areas of their own choosing is changing focus.

Hungary came a step closer to regaining full access to the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme on September 23, when the European Commission said it was in favour of unlocking EU funding ...

In July, the White House released a report that argued academia is deeply dysfunctional and in need of radical reform.

The European Research Council (ERC) Starting grants have been particularly popular among US-based researchers this year, with 170 eligible applications compared to 113 in 2025 and 58 in 2024. The 20…

The recent five-year assessment of Horizon Europe Missions delivered good marks, but a question still hangs over the future of the EU’s ambitious but often misunderstood research and innovation…

For R&D policy nerds, last week was like the World Cup and Olympics happening at the same time. Once every ten years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) hosts a…

The European Commission will launch a €32 million call this week for projects under Horizon Europe’s Raise programme for developing AI for science. The aim of the call is the development of…

Countries from central and eastern Europe are more successful in securing funding from the EU Missions, relatively speaking, than they are from Horizon Europe overall, according to data from the Europ...

Canada is looking for deeper research and education links with the EU, according to its prime minister, Mark Carney. His comments followed hard on the heels of an offer from European Commission…

The European Parliament’s research committee is locked in behind-the-scenes negotiations over the structure of the next Horizon Europe, with MEPs disagreeing on the degree to which its collaborative r...

Research funders are asking how they can stop confidential scientific ideas in grant proposals from leaking out through large language models (LLMs), for example if reviewers use AI to help them judge...

Since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukraine's defence sector has expanded several-fold, becoming a significant source of military innovation, especially in unmanned systems,…

Both Ukraine and Moldova are associate countries of Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship R&D programme, and have been increasing their participation steadily since joining. Moldova first associated in…

Moldova’s push to join the EU is having the spillover effect of helping to improve the country’s R&D landscape, which in recent years has suffered from fragmentation, decreasing personnel and a lack o...

The host of the EU’s largest AI factory says the facility will help researchers to answer scientific questions in any field, including those that are highly multidisciplinary. Meanwhile, the partners…

The European Commission believes its 2026-27 simplification push is going to drastically reduce the administrative burden placed on research institutes and universities. However, on the ground,…

The chances of winning a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) grant have dropped significantly in the last few years, falling below 10% for the first time in 2025. Yet according to the Horizon…

Five Horizon Europe co-funded partnerships have calls opening this September, with opportunities for researchers working on the blue economy, urban transitions, forestry, biodiversity and…

When US researchers use large language models (LLMs) they appear to write grant proposals that are more conservative, hewing closer to previously funded work, a new study finds. According to one of…

Attacks on higher education communities around the world have continued to spread over the last 12 months, according to Scholars at Risk, a network of institutions and individuals that monitors…