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It didn’t take long after the launch of ChatGPT, before I was asked if we could use it for Horizon Europe proposals. And of course, it is inevitable that the idea of using artificial intelligence as tool to select proposals has been put on the table. But this presents a Kafkaesque scenario for the future allocation of research funding: funding for research being proposed by AI for AI.  

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Although more than four years away, the public debate has already begun regarding the structure and orientation of the EU’s next Framework Programme for Research. On February 12, Science|Business will convene a series of in-depth workshops and debates, exclusively for members of its international Network, to develop concrete ideas about how to address some of the key issues which have emerged during Horizon Europe, and which will undoubtedly influence strategic decisions regarding its successo...

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

Researchers have hailed the landmark agreement to allow the UK to re-join the Horizon Europe research programme as an associate member, which will pave the way for pioneering food breakthroughs.

Researchers have hailed the landmark agreement to allow the UK to re-join the Horizon Europe research programme as an associate member, which will pave the way for pioneering food breakthroughs.

A new European Union (EU) project network has launched aimed at accelerating collaboration in textile sustainability.

As signatories of the Stick to science initiative, the presidents of the G6 informal network hereby collectively reaffirm their support to the association of Switzerland and the UK to Horizon Europe.

Many people use a long holiday break for reading – and in my case, a massive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer has been on my night table for the past few weeks. As I reflect on it now, it strikes me that what the Manhattan Project’s scientific director and his physicist-colleagues went through after the war holds lessons for us today, hoping for the end of our own generation’s global crisis.

In Europe, security and defense cooperation have long been the realm of member states and other security organizations like NATO. But recent efforts at the EU level have begun to create a European defense sector—which presents unique challenges and opportunities.