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Chinese Export Rules Make Collaboration Riskier, Researchers Warned

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Chinese Export Rules Make Collaboration Riskier, Researchers Warned

As European universities weigh China collaborations in a darkening geopolitical environment, they also need to worry about whether Beijing's increasingly tough export control rules could deny Europeans access to jointly developed technology, a think tank has warned in a new analysis.
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Research

What's on the EU Research and Innovation Policy Agenda for Autumn 2024?

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What's on the EU Research and Innovation Policy Agenda for Autumn 2024?

After several crisis-filled years characterised by wars, pandemic and economic challenges, the recent European elections and subsequent summer break offer an opportunity to pause and take stock.
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Processing Horizon Europe Grants is Taking 23 Days Longer Than Horizon 2020

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Processing Horizon Europe Grants is Taking 23 Days Longer Than Horizon 2020

Horizon Europe is in its third year, and nearing the halfway point, analysis of how the programme is progressing is beginning to roll in.
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Infrastructures
Europe

Viewpoint: Why Europe Must Invest in Research Infrastructures Now

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Europe

Viewpoint: Why Europe Must Invest in Research Infrastructures Now

As we move further into the 21st century, the importance of scientific research and technological innovation is becoming ever more apparent. Our ability to address critical challenges - from climate change to global health threats - depends on the strength and quality of our research and development efforts as enablers of innovation.
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Germany

Inside Germany's Sprind Innovation Agency, the Anti-Horizon Europe

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Germany

Inside Germany's Sprind Innovation Agency, the Anti-Horizon Europe

About a 15-minute walk from Leipzig's main train station, past office blocks, hardware stores and garden centres, sits a former railway logistics building near the end of a dilapidated road in a warren of tired-looking warehouses. As you approach, there's little to suggest that it contains Germany's great hope for re-invigorating its economy.
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Von Der Leyen Vows to Increase EU Research Spending in New Term

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Von Der Leyen Vows to Increase EU Research Spending in New Term

Ursula von der Leyen promised to put research and innovation "at the centre of our economy" as she laid out her plans for the next five years, before the European Parliament voted to confirm her second term as president of the European Commission. A total of 401 MEPs voted in favour of von der Leyen's re-election this afternoon, and 284 voted against, making for a more comfortable majority than her first vote in 2019.
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Horizon Europe
EU

Calls for Evidence That Singapore Meets Horizon Democracy Criteria

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Calls for Evidence That Singapore Meets Horizon Democracy Criteria

A leading MEP and human rights organisations want the European Commission to explain how it gave Singapore a clean enough bill of health on democracy and human rights to join the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme.
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Science Policy

European Research Council Head Pleads for Openness at G7 Science Summit

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European Research Council Head Pleads for Openness at G7 Science Summit

The president of the European Research Council has pleaded with G7 science ministers not to strangle global cooperation by further tightening research security measures, as Western countries worry about leaking valuable knowledge to China and Russia. During a gathering in Italy this week, Maria Leptin told ministers that there would be "costs to applying restrictions" during a special closed-door discussion on research security and integrity.
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Europe

Innovation Report Delivers 'wake-up Call' for Europe

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Europe

Innovation Report Delivers 'wake-up Call' for Europe

Stakeholders are calling for more research and innovation funding at EU and national level after the latest figures from the European Commission showed Europe's innovation performance is growing more slowly than in China and internal geographical differences persist.
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Joint Calls with India Expected As Brussels Seeks Deeper Tech Ties

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Joint Calls with India Expected As Brussels Seeks Deeper Tech Ties

The EU is planning several joint calls with India in next year's work programme for Horizon Europe, as Brussels tries to strengthen its links with New Delhi, in order to weaken Russian influence.
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Collaboration
Europe

European Research Collaboration Has Seen a Huge Rise - and Deepening Concentration

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Europe

European Research Collaboration Has Seen a Huge Rise - and Deepening Concentration

Research collaboration is growing apace and shows no signs of stopping. According to the latest research and innovation data from the European Commission, the number of co-patents, joint publications and multinational EU projects, are all on the rise.
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Member States Call for a Greater Role in Shaping FP10

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Member States Call for a Greater Role in Shaping FP10

Member states have laid out their broad plans for the next framework research programme, FP10, calling for EU governments to be more involved in strategic priority setting, and for the creation of 'Collaborative Research Actions' to support basic research.
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Europe
Research

EU Commission Blames Low R&D Investment for Economic Stagnation

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Research

EU Commission Blames Low R&D Investment for Economic Stagnation

The European Commission is blaming the EU's economic stagnation on low investment in research and innovation, in the European Semester report, the bloc's main policy tool for coordinating economic and fiscal policy across the 27 member state, which was published on Wednesday.
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Innovation
EU

Make EU Research and Innovation a "Collective Priority", Draghi Says

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Innovation
EU

Make EU Research and Innovation a "Collective Priority", Draghi Says

The EU must make research and innovation a "collective priority", Mario Draghi said on Friday as he outlined some of the key points from his highly anticipated report on EU competitiveness, set to be submitted to the Commission next month.

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Israel

Commission Under Pressure to Give Guidance on R&D Collaboration with Israel

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Israel

Commission Under Pressure to Give Guidance on R&D Collaboration with Israel

More universities are seeking official guidance from the European Commission as they struggle to assess whether Israeli institutions are still eligible to join Horizon Europe projects, as the Israeli war against Hamas is raising ethical questions across academia.
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Israel

EU Convenes Key Israel Council As Gaza Boycotts Spread

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Israel

EU Convenes Key Israel Council As Gaza Boycotts Spread

More European universities have announced they will suspend ties with Israel over its military campaign in Gaza, as EU foreign ministers decided to convene a meeting of the Association Council that governs relations between the bloc and Israel.
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EU
AI

EU Missed Artificial Intelligence Targets Due to Horizon Europe Delay, Auditors Find

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AI

EU Missed Artificial Intelligence Targets Due to Horizon Europe Delay, Auditors Find

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has issued a stinging report criticising the European Commission's AI strategy, finding that the EU underspent on AI by €600 million because of a delay in 2021 starting Horizon Europe.

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Space

EU Ministers Call for More Public and Private Investment in Space

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Space

EU Ministers Call for More Public and Private Investment in Space

EU ministers called for increased public and private investment to support innovation in the space sector today, as they pledged to use space to boost European competitiveness.
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