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.

Arguing about research assessment has been a central feature of seventy-five years of higher education policy. 

Association would open up funding opportunities to the North African country

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.

A new survey of climate experts reveals that a majority believes the Earth to be headed for a rise in global temperatures far higher than the 2015 Paris Agreement targets of 1.5 to well-below 2°C.

Renewing agreement would be in “mutual interest”, Commission says

Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of "serious distortions" in report

Some journal articles on the Taylor & Francis website now bear a pop-up notification stating the papers are "currently under investigation."

Studies have increasingly shown the widespread use of generative AI in research publications. Faced with the consequent uptick in the number of publications, Simone Ragavooloo argues that editors and reviewers should embrace AI tools to undertake the heavy lifting of statistical and methodological review and to allow them to focus on areas that require human expertise.

Drawing on a bibliometric study, Hongyu Zhou, Lin Zhang and their co-authors explore how and why life sciences researchers cite the social sciences and how this relationship has changed in recent years.

Weak startup system leaves Europe struggling to exploit elite funder’s work, says Jay Prakash Nagar.

With several portfolios of new EU commissioners touching on universities’ territory, there’s reason to be optimistic, writes Jan Palmowski