The Lars Løkke Rasmussen government is moving to cut funding for universities and the student financing system and increase political control over higher education institutions.

A proposal for a more peer review based funding of Swedish research prepared by the Swedish Research Council has been rejected by a majority of Swedish universities.

Russian government failed to pay for the subscription for 2014 to the amount of €890,000 (US$1 million).

In northern countries the most important incentives for individual researcher mobility and ERC success is early independence.

The World Library of Science will give students and teachers around the world access to the latest science.

A number of Nobel prize holders have failed to win a ERC grant because their project proposals were not good enough.