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.

Voluntary framework aims to improve access for industry and start-ups and to speed up time to market.

Is it a good faith attempt to fix problems in academia, or a smokescreen for cuts to universities and political control over science?

German Chancellor Merz says EU budget proposal should be cut by several hundred billion euros

Deal confirms that Japanese researchers will be able to apply for European funding in part of the programme

Dutch MEP Brigitte van den Berg is on a mission to raise the profile of vocational training in EU research and innovation policy.

The European Commission has received significant pushback to its suggestion that industry could be required to make cash rather than in kind contributions to Horizon Europe joint undertakings (JUs).

Croatia has partnered with the World Bank in a highly targeted €106 million project that aims to fill R&D funding gaps that are not easily met by EU programmes.

EU accession will be a huge boost to Montenegro’s research and innovation ecosystem, but the country must still make efforts nationally to create real impact, say members of its research community. 

New conditions on US federal research funding will make transatlantic projects less attractive, universities fear