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The European Parliament has thrown a spanner into the works of Juncker's plan to slash €2.7 billion from the EU's 2014 to 2020 research budget for a new investment fund to help ramp up Europe's economy.
Divertion of Horizon cash to investment fund will boost financial 'firepower', says Carlos Moedas.
Europe's research commissioner Carlos Moedas on funding models, diplomacy and scientific advice.
Ukraine will now be able to fully participate in Horizon 2020 on equal terms with EU Member States and other associated countries.
Carlos Moedas' speech, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, in Berlin last week in favor of open science, disruptive innovation and digital technologies.
The European Commission says its outside experts have agreed there must be more integration, better infrastructure and an emphasis on concrete results.
Anne Glover, former chief scientific adviser to the president of the European commission, gives a frank account of the highs and lows of her three years in Brussels.
The European Research Council (ERC) would lose €221 million, mostly in 2016 and 2017.
The European Commission has agreed to retain the role of EU Chief Scientific Adviser, despite the departure of Anne Glover.
The Horizon 2020 programme threatens to siphon away the best scientists from southern Europe.
The ERC has selected 328 first class scientists to receive its prestigious Starting Grants, worth up to €2 million each.
Die EU will das Geld für ihr milliardenschweres Investitionsprogramm aus dem Forschungsbudget entnehmen. Besser als ein kreditfinanziertes Investitionsprogramm wäre es, eine EU-weite Steuererleichterung für Forschungs- und Innovationstätigkeiten der Privatwirtschaft einzuführen.
While Europe’s scientists were watching Rosetta, President Juncker quietly scrapped the role of his top scientific adviser. What does this mean for the future of evidence-based policy in Europe?
Launch of the Horizon Prizes which offer a cash reward to whoever can first or most effectively meet a defined challenge.
A number of Nobel prize holders have failed to win a ERC grant because their project proposals were not good enough.
A survey requested by the European Commission.
Open letter stating that research cannot follow political cycles.
Reforms must now be implemented at the Member State level to make ERA work.
The Scientific Foresight (STOA) Unit analyses the implications and options for future policy-making in science and technology related fields for the European Parliament.
Faut-il un conseiller scientifique en chef pour la Commission Européenne ?
Exploring the topic together with ERC grantees and other researchers, with representatives from funding bodies, universities and other research performers, with publishers, policy makers and other interested parties.
The goal of the consultation is to better understand the full societal potential of 'Science 2.0' as well as the desirability of any possible policy action
It has been a busy couple of weeks across the European Union, but what does that mean for science?
Letter urging to support for the post of Chief Scientific Adviser to the European Commission President.
Five Western Balkan countries, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and the Republic of Moldova on Tuesday signed up to join Horizon 2020.
Simple explanation of the basic workings of the European Commission and how EU policy relates to science and research.
“A greater number of Europhobic members … in the European Parliament would certainly have negative consequences on the idea to turn scientific research and innovation into a great European policy” says Jean-Pierre Audy, an EPP parliamentarian from France.
The EU Parliament has adopted a package of public-private and public-public research partnerships worth up to €22bn.
Researchers and students are struggling with obstructive rules on immigration to the EU that urgently need updating: scientists from countries outside the EU are not being made welcome and often face problems in moving freely between member states.
