A leaked EU competitiveness strategy is prompting fears that Brussels intends to undermine the independence of the European Research Council by pushing for more alignment with the European Innovation Council and the EU's broader political goals.

Leaked draft work programme for health cluster sets out priorities and foresees significant budget increase
 

Significant obstacles remain to the introduction of European joint degrees, according to a European Commission survey of ten Erasmus+ pilot projects.

The EU's panel of science advisers has called for more research into geoengineering, to understand the feasibility - and potential risks - of trying to block out the sun to cool a warming earth. 

The CESAER university association is calling on the European Commission to pilot a 'Choose Europe for a research career' programme to tackle brain drain and precarity in research careers. 

How can Europe translate research into innovation? 

To strengthen its health R&D pipelines and prepare for the next health crisis, Europe needs to balance security concerns with greater industrial competitiveness

US academics debate Trump’s impact on R&D: budget cuts, visa limits – but perhaps some transatlantic cooperation. 

"Radicalisation and extremism" and the rise of autocracies are a focus of next year’s draft work programme.

Worries are mounting in Europe after Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, with the EU scrambling to chart a future in which it is less dependent on the US for defence and technology.

The way the EU funds research and innovation isn't really working, and the European Commission needs to experiment with new ways to do it, according to a new influential report on the future of the EU's research and innovation framework programmes.

The European Commission is making moves to bundle all research and innovation funds into a new mega competitiveness fund that would be launched under the new multiannual budget due to start in 2028.