India Starts Formal Talks on Horizon Europe Association
The EU and India have kicked off formal negotiations on association to Horizon Europe, hoping to reach a deal before the end of this year, the European Commission has announced.
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The EU and India have kicked off formal negotiations on association to Horizon Europe, hoping to reach a deal before the end of this year, the European Commission has announced.
While India’s decision is pending both sides agreed to launch joint R&D calls for projects worth €60 million.
Drawing on a study of priorities in health research, researchers argue a metascience approach can refocus Indian research towards areas that are most needed by Indian society and that are understudied globally
... but collaborations are still hampered by bureaucracy and underfunding.
Many Western nations are severing scientific links - but it's a different story in China, India and South Africa.
Rates of mucormycosis were high even before the pandemic, and now the country is running out of antifungal drugs, say global expert Prof Arunaloke Chakrabarti and infectious diseases doctor Ilan Schwartz
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel Facebook's (FB.O) messaging app to break privacy protections, sources said.
When India’s 1.3 billion people come out of a 40-day lockdown on 3 May, imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, they can hope that a battery of technologies that the government is readying to deploy against the contagious virus could offer them some protection.
The government's "directions will be entirely determined by the interests of Indian academia and of India", according to K. VijayRaghavan, the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India.
Researchers say the policy could intensify existing issues with research quality and misconduct.