Since 2019, Germany’s Max Planck Society has been quietly funding new centres of scientific excellence in Poland and Czechia.

A damming European Parliament resolution on the state of democracy in Serbia has strongly condemned the government for curtailing academic freedom in the country. It calls on the authorities to ...

Eureka, which defines itself as the world’s largest public network for international cooperation in research and innovation, ...

Initiatives to bolster research security in the EU, advanced by the European Commission on October 28, will soon filter down to researchers setting up projects. These include a due diligence platform ...

The EU’s Innovation Fund is set to invest €2.9 billion in 61 projects in its newest funding round for net-zero technology deployment. The projects will focus on energy-intensive industries, renewable ...

The economist behind a French initiative that mobilised €13 billion in private savings to fund technological innovation believes the same is possible at European level, if investors are given the ...

Principles intended to make research data findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (Fair) have gained increasing traction since they were endorsed by the G20 nations in 2016. Yet scientists ...

On October 28, research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva promised to embed research security in EU law. In doing so, she and her staff will have plenty of policy initiatives to build on.

Two KTH projects in the field of nuclear energy have received over SEK 50 million from the Swedish Energy Agency. The money will be used to build a research laboratory and a knowledge platform for the ...

Climate crisis, energy transition… Such global challenges are central to a new form of cooperation established by the CNRS with leading universities in Tokyo, São Paulo, and Chicago, in the form of ...