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If rumours of a Ministerial trip to Brussels in the days ahead to ratify an agreement on Horizon Europe are true, then we might finally be seeing…

The Austrian online platform for the European Research Area (ERA) is a promotion initiative aiming at providing comprehensive information on the implementation of the ERA.

Research policy experts are breathing a sigh of relief that Brussels is about to get a new research commissioner who has credentials suggesting she’s up to the task, after the European Commission president picked Iliana Ivanova to take over the running of the EU’s €95.5 billion Horizon Europe R&D programme. Ivanova is a Bulgarian member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) and a former member of the European Parliament. Her experience as an EU auditor is seen as a positive sign.

The EU should double its budget for research to increase the scientific capital of the EU13 countries in the east and stop Europe from falling further behind the US and China, European Research Council (ERC) president Maria Leptin tells Science|Business after a visit to Slovenia and Croatia. The aim should be to help countries in eastern Europe to attract talent to emerging research clusters, helping to bridge the divide with the world class research systems in western Europe.

Contrary to expectations, the first talks about the next multiannual budget of the EU (covering the period 2021-2027) passed surprisingly peaceful and in agreement. The EU summit on 23 February was the first opportunity the leaders of the 27 member states exchanged positions about the future for ...

Leitrim-based Momentum Educate + Innovate were in Paris last week for the launch of a prestigious new Horizon Europe project, ARENAS (Analysis of and Responses ...

EU Research Commissioner Mariya Gabriel resigned her Brussels post to focus on trying to form Bulgaria’s next coalition government, the European Commission confirmed. Gabriel was called up to Sofia last week to help her centre-right party GERB form a governing coalition after it won 26.5% of the vote in a snap election last month. Today, she informed the Commission that she is getting a formal mandate from the Bulgarian President to lead the political negotiations in Sofia.

An enormous research effort by Europe’s leading broadband players has helped accelerate dramatically the rollout of next-generation broadband services reaching speeds in the 10s of Mbit/s in many European countries. That is just the start.

The Austrian online platform for the European Research Area (ERA) is a promotion initiative aiming at providing comprehensive information on the implementation of the ERA.

The Austrian online platform for the European Research Area (ERA) is a promotion initiative aiming at providing comprehensive information on the implementation of the ERA.