Parliament’s Horizon Europe negotiators have settled their differences but details on their compromise remain scarce.

The European Commission plans to develop an EU polar research hub to strengthen coordination and improve the alignment between science and policy.

Funding is becoming more concentrated, with increasingly large grants going to fewer projects.

MEPs call the agreement “the first important milestone” in the negotiations, with a committee vote scheduled for November 10.

Open science is “not incompatible” with research security and science leaders and policymakers should “demystify” the false dichotomy between the two, according to Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor.

EU governments are set to have a strategic discussion on the next set of Horizon Europe partnerships with new initiatives on railways, space technologies, and climate and water resilience.

The additional funding for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions comes amid record-low success rates.

Additional funding will cover biodiversity and “bridging” grants to next EU research programme amid plummeting success rates

Although supportive of dual-use research in Horizon Europe, Nordic universities say more detail is needed on definitions

Speculation starts around the scope of Canada’s associate member status, and how universities could help shape it

Brussels says Hungary’s new government has addressed rule-of-law breaches, including on corruption and conflicts of interest

Academia is dysfunctional, says the White House, and needs radical solutions. But is the research reform agenda being used to defund universities, or moving too fast?

Budget pragmatism prompts shift of bottom-up funding for institutions to programme area devoted to collaborative research.

Commission proposes Innovation Act and Public Procurement Act to harmonise rules and unlock funding for new technologies.

A new study finally puts a number on the extent to which spats hurt research ties. But the bigger story may be the resilience of global science.

Votes on all EU programmes are postponed until MEPs in the budgets committee agree the Performance Framework Regulation.

Inflation has had most impact on personnel, forcing some ERC grantees to halve their teams from one project to another.

Grant support is still a developing practice in the region, a hangover from the Soviet style of funding research.

Moscow’s academic repression is expanding into the EU, scholars say, with researchers in Europe facing cyber-attacks and designation as “extremists”.

Exchange in European Parliament highlights continued divergence on links between Horizon Europe and European Competitiveness Fund.

The EU’s proposed Biotech Act will bring in one of the world’s first mandatory screening mechanisms to stop risky fragments of DNA falling into the wrong hands and potentially triggering a man-made pandemic.

Over the summer, Greenland’s two largest research institutions, the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and the University of Greenland, both announced policies of not starting new research projects with US researchers.

In a wide-ranging interview, the EU research commissioner sets out her hopes for speedy negotiations and an expanding role for Europe in global science.