Guidance on how to implement Plan S (an initiative for Open Access publishing) has been published, and was formally presented by cOAlition S at the end of November in London.
The European Commission announced a new research partnership - European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) - which will be launched on 1 January 2019.
Horizon 2020 project EPC+ has pioneered the use of energy performance contracts (EPC) in the SME sector, which allows investments to be financed by a private energy service company and repaid through the energy savings.
The Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2019 has been recently updated with some minor changes, including alignment of topics within the Research Infrastructures part with the ESFRI 2019 Roadmap.
As of Friday 30 November, the changes of the new Participant Portal took effect and the new Funding & Tender Opportunities Portal replaced the previous version.