• Posted 07-Oct-2019

Public Consultation on Institutionalised Partnerships in Horizon Europe Launched

The European Commission is looking for input on the twelve proposed institutionalised partnerships under Horizon Europe.


  • Posted 07-Oct-2019

New record for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships call

The Research Executive Agency has received 9 875 proposals for the three MSCA Individual Fellowships calls that closed yesterday, 11 September. This represents a small increase compared to last year.


  • Posted 07-Oct-2019

New Commission spreads innovation agenda across half-dozen portfolios

After putting Bulgaria’s Mariya Gabriel in charge of education, innovation and research, the European Commission’s president elect Ursula von der Leyen has sprinkled a flurry of innovation-related tasks across the agendas of at least half a dozen new commissioners.


  • Posted 07-Oct-2019

Give EU more powers to take on academic publishers, says research commissioner

The EU’s outgoing research commissioner has called for his successor to be granted stronger powers to negotiate lower prices with big science publishers.


  • Posted 04-Oct-2019

Bulgaria’s Mariya Gabriel picked to run Horizon Europe

The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, nominated Bulgaria’s Mariya Gabriel to take charge of research, innovation and education, but has scotched research from the name of the brief for the first time, relabelling it the ‘Innovation and Youth’ portfolio.