Motherhood, and the unequal childcare responsibilities that follow, explain a large share of the observed gender gap in academic employment. Sofie Cairo, Ria Ivandic, Anne Sophie Lassen and Valentina Tartari find that the demands of childcare and mobility constraints, reinforced by the nature of research work, are the key drivers for women's differing career trajectories.

New measures include longer restrictions for previously unsuccessful applicants as ERC contends with rise in applications.

Influential adviser and ex-Portuguese science minister Manuel Heitor calls out the broken system of short-term contracts.

Agency acknowledges young investigators are losing out as result of multiyear funding policy imposed by White House.

Discover the funding opportunities managed by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) for researchers to develop their careers, widen participation and support projects in key areas such as environment, agriculture and civil security. Learn more about the topics, timelines and upcoming info day.

To fight the war on science, higher education needs to reimagine the most important career milestone for faculty.