Japan’s Sasakawa Peace Foundation is offering up to $3M for ocean discovery projects that may struggle to fit standard funding calls, from unknown species and ecosystems to the technologies needed to find them: sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
The EU wants to phase out animal testing in chemical safety assessments. Lobby groups say the roadmap is missing one crucial piece: dedicated funding for the costly work of developing and validating alternatives. sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
France and Poland are pushing for Horizon Europe to fund long-term networks of laboratories, not only projects. The idea could give strategic collaborative research a more stable base in the next EU framework programme: sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
Romania has won its first fully funded Teaming for Excellence project, with up to €15M from the EU for a new liquid biopsy centre: sciencebusiness.net/news/researc...
The first EU Inc registrations could happen as early as spring 2028. Brussels wants start-ups to incorporate in 48 hours, for less than €100, and operate across the EU under a single company regime: sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
Europe keeps calling for its own Darpa and some countries are already building one but the continent may be misreading what Darpa actually does and what it cannot.
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Europe wants more control over semiconductors, cloud, AI and energy. But the Commission’s new tech sovereignty push is already raising a difficult question: can sovereignty make Europe stronger without making it less competitive?
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Europe’s new €5 billion Scaleup Europe Fund is officially open for business. The pitch to fast-growing companies is simple: stay in Europe and get the kind of nine-figure investment that has too often meant looking across the Atlantic: sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
Women make up around 60% of researchers in Croatia. Yet key science bodies remain heavily male. A new academy intake offers hope, but the real test is where power still sits: sciencebusiness.net/news/researc...
Researchers are drowning in grant paperwork. Reviewers are burning out. AI is making the flood of applications worse. A new Data Corner looks at who is trying what to fix it: sciencebusiness.net/news/r-d-fun...
Japan’s Sasakawa Peace Foundation last week opened a call aimed at supporting ambitious ocean research that might struggle to get funding elsewhere. The foundation’s Ocean Shot call is looking to fund...
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The European Commission is moving ahead with plans to gradually replace animal testing in chemical safety assessments, but lobby groups are concerned that insufficient funding has been set aside to ba...
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EU governments are considering a proposal from France and Poland that would provide long-term funding in the next Horizon Europe programme for laboratories that is not tied to specific projects, in an...
Romania has won its first fully-funded Teaming for Excellence project, a significant grant with a contribution of up to €15 million from the EU, as it aims to create a new centre for liquid biopsy res...
The new EU-wide corporate regime could see its first registrations as early as April or May 2028, according to a senior official in the office of EU justice Commissioner Michael McGrath. It’s an ambit...
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Barely a week goes by in Europe without a call to set up an equivalent of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the body credited with some of the 20th century’s most transformativ...
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The European Commission released a new technological sovereignty package on June 3, containing measures intended to increase European self-sufficiency in sectors such as AI, digital services, semicond...
The EU’s brand-new Scaleup Europe Fund will be designed to be “ultra fast” to attract the best companies and convince them to grow in Europe, the firm picked to run the fund said at the official launc...
Croatia’s track-record on gender equality in science has been both questioned and lauded in recent months, following both bad and good news on the topic. On the one hand, a senior awards committee was...
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Trying to cut research grant paperwork in academia is all the rage. Applicants are frustrated at having to submit seemingly enormous proposals for a tiny chance of success, and reviewers are burned ou...
