
This week: robot agriculture, a CNRS award and an international cancer initiative
In depth: France’s overall spending on higher education and research will be raised by €1 billion in 2024, according to the government’s draft budget. However, the plans make no mention of extra funding to help universities pay for government-mandated pay hikes—apparently confirming ministers’ previous statements that universities will have to dig into their savings to meet those costs.
Full story: Research and universities get planned €1bn uplift in draft budget