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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
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.
External influences - such as politics, funding and the media - are increasingly putting the autonomy of research under pressure.
