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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
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.
Research committee MEPs are concerned about potential conflicts of interest in councils intended to set priorities
Votes on all EU programmes are postponed until MEPs in the budgets committee agree the Performance Framework Regulation.
Grant support is still a developing practice in the region, a hangover from the Soviet style of funding research.
Gates Foundation pledges $540 million to a project often criticized for its opacity.
Prioritising long-term strategic investment in the Arctic requires courage, but it is a choice Europe cannot afford to postpone.
Universities are creating AI schools alongside disciplines such as logic, economics and communication without addressing their shared foundations. Mouhamdy M. Dahoud argues that this reflects an ontological gap, with current research funding and assessment taxonomies overlooking an entire category of science.
The authors investigate how funding structures influence university governance and research behaviour. The paper contributes to broader discussions about autonomy, incentives, and the organisation of research systems.
This study examines whether similarity between applicants and evaluators influences grant-review outcomes. The findings contribute to ongoing debates about fairness, bias, and the design of competitive research-funding systems.
Professional grant-writing advisers help researchers construct ERC proposals—and thereby influence what institutions present as competitive science, affecting efforst to change research culture.
If reviewers can't reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.
Universities and funding agencies should organize research around problems, reward shared achievement, and support ideas that fall between established fields.
Deal confirms that Japanese researchers will be able to apply for European funding in part of the programme
