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Swiss universities fear losing out on the European Union's "Horizon Europe" science research funding pot.

We first announced plans to investigate identifiers for grants in 2017 and are almost ready to violate the first rule of grant identifiers which is “they probably should not be called grant identifiers”.

Female scientists are less likely to win research dollars from the federal government's grant agency (CIHR), when the grant application is reviewed based on the scientist leading the project, rather than the proposal.

The community-curated website aims to connect early-career researchers with funding opportunities, useful resources and each other.

Open Data Day is the yearly event where we gather to reach out to new people and build new solutions to issues in our communities using open data. To make sure some of those events have everything they needed to be great for their communities, mini-grants for the people organizing Open Data Day events will be provided.

Alyson Fox, the Director of Grants at Wellcome, explains why they're changing their policy on transferring grants to ensure research can thrive in the UK, EU and beyond.

If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, she and her husband, Eric Minikel, set out to find a cure.

This study presents a review of international evidence on best practice in organisational design of research and innovation funding bodies.

A much-needed debunk of shortsighted comments about science investments.

Scientists waste substantial time writing grant proposals, potentially squandering much of the scientific value of funding programs. This Meta-Research Article shows that, unfortunately, grant-proposal competitions are inevitably inefficient when the number of awards is small, but efficiency can be restored by awarding funds through a modified lottery, or by weighting past research success more heavily in funding decisions.

Many land-grant schools have submitted bids despite objections by researchers

Funders and publishers have a lot to gain from sharing and aligning peer reviews.

The humanities subjects do not benefit from the research excellence framework. They need a better system.

Launch of the ORCID funder open letter: Nine funding bodies are committed to expanding the use of ORCID in their grant applications.

The change is intended to enable researchers to access structural funds for projects reviewers say are excellent, but which don’t make the cut for Horizon Europe grants.

A study evaluating two aspects of the selection process of the top-ranked applicants to the EMBO Long-Term Fellowship program in 2007.

In 2019, innovation funding will be increasingly randomised.

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding 'excellence' is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

The research sector is experiencing the longest delay to Australian Research Council (ARC) funding announcements in history.

Research funders impose length limits on applications for practical reasons: to discourage epic submissions, and to ease the burden on reviewers. It’s also true that concise ideas are generally stronger ideas. But sticking to these limits can often seem a difficult and frustrating task.

Debate over a new idea for stopping malaria is pitting some environmental groups against Bill Gates.

The European Commission launched today the sixth edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators. The Prize sheds light on the outstanding work of female entrepreneurs who have brought their ideas to market, and aims to inspire the next generation of innovators.

Mozilla Science Mini Grants are now open for applications.

Funding could help quantum technology gain commercial footholds in Europe.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn appeals to research chiefs Carlos Moedas and Jean-Eric Paquet to keep R&D programme focused on excellence, rather than even spread of winners.

Already the world's second biggest R&D spender behind the United States, China is steadily narrowing the gap, according to a government report released last week.

Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth

New ‘G6’ group of top French, German, Italian and Spanish institutes aims for more collaboration, and to ‘make sure politicians understand the urgency’ of science investment