The European Commission is looking to create its own open-access publishing platform for papers that emerge from its €80bn Horizon 2020 programme.

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The European Commission, which spends more than €10 billion annually on research, may set up a “publishing platform” for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe.

Commission may follow Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation in establishing a rapid-publication platform.

UK-based academics leading research infrastructures supported by funding from the European Commission are to begin moving their headquarters to other European Union member states from as early as 2019. 

The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.

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The next EU Framework programme after Horizon 2020 might allow full participation from large countries outside Europe and the surrounding region.

The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.

Updates of the model grant agreement.