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Investment in research to tackle poverty-related and neglected diseases – such as TB and malaria – has fallen since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Andrew Tuttle, chief strategy officer of Policy Cures Research.  After rising steadily, annual investment in such research began to plateau in 2018 and then declined in the wake of the pandemic, he told a session entitled Deepening cooperation with the Global South for sustainable health futures at the Science|Business Annual Conference, org...

Defence-related research and innovation (R&I) is rising to the top of the political agenda, both in Europe and beyond. Russia's invasion of the Ukraine, plus geopolitical tensions and volatility around the globe, has obliged the EU to provide a collective response to a new era of security challenges - including, for the first time, an ambitious defence industry policy backed by large-scale investment in various science, technology and manufacturing domains.

In July 2022 the EU formally adopted its New European Innovation Agenda, setting out a range of measures and actions to support the twin green and digital transitions, to improve enabling conditions for and the competitiveness of European innovators, and to strengthen the links between innovation ecosystems across the continent.

Editor’s note: This viewpoint is first of a series Science|Business is publishing on the EU Framework Programme’s past and future – in the run-up to our celebration 12-13 February of the first Framework in 1984.

Bulgarian Member of European Court of Auditors, liana Ivanova, Chosen as EU's New Commissioner for Research and Innovation

A Bulgarian member of the European Court of Auditors, Iliana Ivanova, is to become the EU’s new commissioner for research and innovation, the European Commission announced on Wednesday evening. The announcement comes after a few weeks of speculation over who will replace outgoing commissioner Mariya Gabriel, who resigned her post in May to form a new government coalition in her home country of Bulgaria.

EQI researchers Joe O'Hara and Martin Brown part of a successful Horizon Europe bid

As a leading European research university and co-founder of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), KU Leuven pursues curiosity-driven and strategic frontier research as well as targeted and demand-driven research. With a research budget of over 364 million euro and an academic staff of more than 6,000 researchers from 120 countries, KU Leuven strives to build on its strong international reputation for research excellence. The university consistently secures funding from the most se...

Why is Horizon Europe important for Switzerland and the European Union? Published on Share Switzerland has been excluded until further notice from the EU’s key Horizon Europe research programme. This is a big blow for Switzerland’s research landscape, says Yves Flückiger, president of swissuniversities. Horizon Europe, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027, is the largest research and innovation-funding programme in the world. As ...

EIT Climate-KIC is a key player in helping Europe adapt to climate change In The News 26 Feb 2021 EIT Climate-KIC welcomes the new EU strategy on adaptation to climate change, its acknowledgement of the need for systemic adaptation and the spotlight it shines on the need to support adaptation innovation. One of the aims of the new climate adaptation strategy, released by the European Commission on 24 February 2021, is to shift the focus from understanding the problems to developing ...