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ViewLeaked EU pharma strategy focuses on ‘unmet needs’

Commission wants academia, regulators and patients to weigh in on early stages of drug R&D

ViewEuropean spending on defence R&D ‘insufficient’, agency says

Review finds European defence activities ‘characterised by fragmentation, incoherence’

ViewEU statistics agency trying to cut cost of R&D data-gathering

Agency reportedly taking action over ‘serious concerns’ about capacities of national authorities

ViewR&D missions adviser Mazzucato seeks prominent role for EU bank

Bank should be ‘change agent’ and spur private investment in R&D missions, economist says

ViewEU and South Korea team up on research into Covid-19 treatments

Italian and Korean research organisations to share clinical trial and supercomputing information

View‘Breakthrough’ tool can uncover R&D trends, Commission says

Commission procured data-mining tool from team using algorithms to automatically sort research papers

ViewPortugal planning to double its participation in EU programmes

Researchers must be ‘even better prepared and connected’ for ‘more competitive’ R&D calls, plan warns

ViewDeadline for nominating next ERC president extended

Extension said to have been requested by research organisations stretched by pandemic

ViewGabriel drops more hints about European Innovation Area

EU commissioner wants to remove transnational barriers to innovation, alongside those to education and research

ViewERC seeks to lure Japanese researchers to visit teams

EU’s top basic research funder signs agreement with Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development

View‘No conflict’ in defence R&D funds say Commission and grantees

Defence industry and research institutes shaped ‘scope and governance’ of EU funds, not their calls

ViewUniversities and MEPs at odds over €4bn Horizon Europe top-up

University groups want to focus on excellent science, whereas Parliament seeking broader spread

ViewMEPs call for bolstered EU health programme to fund research

Programme should promote research into medical products such as antimicrobials and vaccines, MEPs say

ViewHorizon 2020 found lacking in societal and industrial impact

Initial assessment of EU R&D programme finds only ‘excellent science’ pillar is hitting its targets

ViewSwiss sketch out stance for restart of EU treaty talks

Commission president ‘awaits further details’ on talks that could shape EU-Switzerland R&D ties

ViewEIC told to use tension between top-down and bottom-up projects

For greatest impact, group must back both challenge-driven and investigator-led projects, say experts

ViewEU investment bank approves €1 trillion green spending plan

EIB move coincides with promise from 450 development banks to reconsider fossil fuel funding

ViewHorizon Europe: projecting the rules of association

A sneak preview of non-EU participation in the bloc’s dramatic sequel to Horizon 2020

View‘Tough fight’ ends in last-minute cash injection for Horizon Europe

But billions more for R&D still leaves budget below original hopes of sector and MEPs

ViewEU praises Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine and orders more doses

Commission backs deal for up to 300 million doses

ViewERC selects two vice-presidents during turbulent time

Andrzej Jajszczyk and Nektarios Tavernarakis to lead physical and life sciences for EU funder

ViewUK company awarded ESA contract to mine the moon

If successful, this could allow astronauts to manufacture their own air in space

ViewLast-ditch push for €10bn Horizon Europe boost

MEP Christian Ehler enlists lobbyists to back his move in ‘final days’ of budget talks

View‘Deep concern’ over Brexit talks

Leading MEP warns of ‘long list of fundamental divergences’ as negotiation deadline approaches

ViewResearchers and MEPs in bid to ‘rescue’ Horizon Europe budget

Planned funding for 2021-27 EU R&D programme will have ‘devastating’ effects, researchers say

View€128m for EU R&D on Covid-19 ‘pressing needs’ and impacts

Project aims include better understanding effects of pandemic on vulnerable and marginalised groups

ViewMost wins for Germany in latest round of ERC Synergy Grants

Germany involved in 18 of 34 new multidisciplinary European Research Council mega-grants

ViewMEPs join push for paid extensions to Marie Curie projects

Efforts to support EU-funded researchers affected by Covid-19 delays ‘not enough’, say MEPs

ViewEuropean WHO advisory board to inform health policy priorities

EU will also present proposals for World Health Organization reform

ViewERC launches second initiative for Indian researchers to visit Europe

Initiative encourages Indian social scientists to work with teams funded by the European Research Council