White and Chinese reviewers “appeared to give higher scores to applicants that share their ethnicity”.

Draft 2026-27 work programme maintains focus on topics ranging from biodiversity to resilient farming.

The Commission’s roadmap for the 2028-34 budget has renewed fears that research and innovation will disappear into a European Competitiveness Fund.
 

EU’s basic research funder “is not living in a vacuum” and should listen to “evolving demands from society,” says Marc Lemaître.

Marc Lemaître expects “radical reduction in the number of instruments under the EU budget”.

Research centers move to reduce salaries and lay off staff.

Work and payments at universities, businesses and non-profits disrupted nationwide after executive orders.

An NIH announcement Friday cutting billions in biomedical research, a federal funding review and DEI prohibitions have left colleges scrambling for answers.

World’s largest public biomedical funder “cancels grant meetings”, while WHO pauses recruitment after US withdraws

Humanities and social science defunding sparks outrage in New Zealand.

Funding announced for joint projects and clinical trials in update to “landmark” bilateral agreement.

Scientists shocked as “blue-sky” Marsden Fund has half its budget shifted to research focused on helping economy.

An independent expert report on the EU’s Framework Programmes for research and innovation recommends major role for research funding and a restructuring of funding mechanisms.

Concerns that future projects may be axed in budget to help pay for rejoining EU's Horizon programme.

The way the EU funds research and innovation isn't really working, and the European Commission needs to experiment with new ways to do it, according to a new influential report on the future of the EU's research and innovation framework programmes.

The European Commission is making moves to bundle all research and innovation funds into a new mega competitiveness fund that would be launched under the new multiannual budget due to start in 2028.