Pressure grows for review of EU science cooperation with Israel Pressure grows for review of EU science cooperation with Israel A group of Belgian universities has joined calls for EU cooperation with ...

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The European Commission has proposed a series of new measures designed to bolster research security in the bloc, responding to fears that critical technologies and knowhow could be leaking to ...

The STEP initiative to boost investment in strategic technologies has suffered a blow as member states refuse to hand over fresh funding, but the proposal lacked ambition from the beginning Strategic ...

Following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine a fear of working with the West, sanctions, visa restrictions, travel issues and an exodus of academics have forced Russia to retreat from the global scientific ...

Global R&D spending grew faster than the economy between 2014 and 2018 as countries around the world turned to research to bring on the green and digital transitions, says a new UNESCO report.

The French research world is to undergo a “revolution” in the next 18 months in a bid to make it more competitive on the global stage. The creation of a presidential science council will put science ...

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 ...

As Russian troops massed on the Ukrainian border in February 2022, waiting for a signal to invade from the Kremlin, scientific relations between Russia and Europe were looking healthy. The Ukraine ...

Germany is promising to spend nearly €500M on artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation by 2024, with investments in supercomputing infrastructure, skills development, women-led research ...

Budget discussions are on for the EU’s next R&I funding programme, due to begin in 2028, and the European Parliament wants more than twice as much as was agreed last time The European Union’s next ...

China’s involvement in Horizon Europe is becoming increasingly restricted to environment-focused and basic research, but is still holding up despite geopolitical headwinds and the disruption to ...