The long-term future of a steering platform on research that brought warring Balkan nations and the EU together through science is uncertain after the project that hosted it ends. EU officials are now scrambling for alternative avenues to keep the Read more [...]
Billions in EU regional development funds – used to help poor regions catch up – will now be targeted to support innovation as part of a major reform of EU regional policy, according to an article in Science|Business. The aim is to bridge the Read more [...]
The European Union needs a million more researchers over the next decade and it plans to devote 3% of GDP to R&D by 2020 to keep up with its main economic competitors and be a knowledge-based economy, according to this year's European Commission Researchers' Read more [...]
Science ministers from South-East Europe will meet in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) on 22 and 23 November 2012, under the auspices of UNESCO, to try to take forward research aspects of a recent EU initiative to develop the Danube region (‘The Read more [...]
Research and development systems in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey were among the issues put under the spotlight in a series of reports on states' preparedness of those nations for EU membership, Read more [...]
Innovation in action
"We now hope to do much more business," says Jacob Krogsgaard, from H2 Logic, a system supplier for fuel cell technology, speaking in the European Parliament in Brussels. In the "Loyola de Palacio" meeting room he shows pictures Read more [...]
It’s a familiar refrain to both research practitioners and policy-makers in the UK and across Europe: “we’re great at science; but poor at innovation”. Read more [...]
The next EU research funding programme, Horizon 2020 will maintain the core principals of its predecessor Framework 7. The proposed future programme will fund excellent science (€24.6 bn), industrial leadership (€17.9 bn) and societal challenges (€31.7 bn). It also includes consolidated and revised funding guidelines as the EC continues to strive for simplified funding applications, reporting and auditing. The proposal for Horizon 2020 was presented to the European Commission on 30 November 2011. Read more [...]
Following an online naming competition, the next round of EC Framework funding is going to be called "Horizon 2020". Three names were shortlisted. Horizon 2020 received 3,055 votes against, 2,785 for Imagine 2020, and 2,478 for Discover 2020. In total, 8,318 votes were received. The full name being put forward this year as part of the legislative proposal for the new programme is "Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation". Read more [...]
The European Commission is scaling back ambitions to create a single EU patent as Spain and Italy launch a legal appeal for language discrimination. Read more [...]
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