Japan has agreed to join Horizon Europe, becoming the biggest country yet to associate to the EU’s €93.5 billion research and ...

The European Commission has released plans intended to accelerate clinical trial approvals across the EU and cut costs by as much as 80–90% through the use of AI-enabled trials. The proposal is an ...

A major report on the future of Dutch R&D has recommended setting up a new innovation agency, following the establishment of similar bodies in the UK and Germany.Peter Wennink, the former chief ...

The EU is set to introduce new incentives to stimulate pharmaceutical R&D, particularly for new antibiotics and treatments for rare diseases, after lawmakers reached a provisional agreement on ...

A new Trump administration plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence in US science could greatly boost research productivity. But according to analysts, it also highlights a need for more ...

Late last month the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) signed an agreement with the European Research Council (ERC) that will allow African researchers to temporarily join teams led by ERC grantees.

Innovation is Europe’s main competitive advantage, but industrial policy must not dictate research priorities, said Christian Ehler following his confirmation as lead rapporteur for the tenth EU ...

The US is now supremely dominant in terms of private investment and compute capacity. But Chinese open models are leading the way This impression that the bloc is lagging behind appears to be largely ...

The EU’s €20 billion plan to build so-called gigafactories to train world-leading AI models has come in for criticism from industry groups, who worry there isn’t a plan for what they will be used for ...

The European Commission has published a new guide for researchers on writing policy briefs to communicate their findings to policymakers. The bottom line: keep it brief, do not bury important ...

From 2014 to 2024, national budget allocations for R&D increased by 59.5% across the EU’s present members to an estimated €127,916 million, according to data from Eurostat. Year-on-year, this ...

Communicating science to the public has been a part of the job for academic researchers for years, but the rise of social media and growing misinformation about science has raised the stakes. As ...