The European funding landscape for dual-use and defence R&D is set for major changes after the European Parliament and EU member states struck a deal on November 5 on the so-called defence ...

The Dutch city of Eindhoven has established itself as an essential hub in the global semiconductor industry. The world’s most advanced chips could not be manufactured without local firm ASML’s extreme ...

Switzerland has spent most of Horizon Europe participating as a “third country,” able to join projects but ineligible for EU funding. Following an association agreement that was formally signed on ...

Topics designed to appeal to new applicants will be a feature of Horizon Europe in 2026 and 2027, according to a newly published draft general introduction to the Horizon Europe work programme for the ...

The Belmont Forum, a partnership of funding agencies, international scientific councils and regional consortia supporting global environmental change research, is investing in transdisciplinary ...

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 supercomputer that transforms the world showcases the potential of supercomputing and AI in fields such as biomedicine, climate change, and energy efficiency, bringing it closer to the general ...

Representatives of the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) participated in the 12th Polish-Taiwanese Seminar, which took place on November 3-4 in the port city of Keelung, Taiwan. The ...

A major new initiative aims to redefine human-based research models for greater understanding of disease and the acceleration of new medicines.The proposal will enable the development of advanced, ...

France and the Netherlands are mulling setting up their own versions of Germany’s Sprind innovation agency, which organises multi-stage competitive challenges to invent new technologies and promises ...

With its largest funding scheme, the SNSF is supporting 346 projects spanning the full spectrum of the Swiss research landscape to the tune of 326 million francs.“With its Project funding, the SNSF ...

Fusion for Energy (F4E), the organisation responsible for the EU’s €5.61 billion contribution to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project in 2021-27, has been heavily ...