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RePowerEU energy-autonomy initiative is centre stage amid climate change and war in Ukraine

New European Defence Agency unit comes amid broader push on defence coordination

MEP Rosa D’Amato says European Commission should investigate EU research funding to Israel

Pilot will connect disparate innovation funding sources across 63 regions and four states
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This week: public-private aluminium research lab launches, Inrae pushes citizen science, ANR recruits scientific chairs

Backed by €400 million, Parc aims to bring diverse actors together on chemical safety

Wiley-Couperin partnership allows authors to also publish in national open access repository
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Earma 2022: Ehler says EU overpromises and underdelivers on research as it chases fashionable topics

Maria Leptin also says funder’s letter to UK winners of ERC grants “was misunderstood”

University group says article processing charges exacerbate “unsustainable” spending and create “unequal” access to knowledge

EU reducing number of Horizon Europe research and innovation partnerships while boosting their overall budget

Budget situation could delay or even cancel coalition agreement, university leaders warn

Freigeist funds to be redirected after 2022 selection as part of wider strategy change

This week: Springer’s latest open-access deal, bachelor-to-master’s transitions, and a thesis investigation in Munich

Move follows warning from former president that funding mode could erode focus on scientific quality

Deputy takes over temporarily while Iter finds replacement for Bernard Bigot

Publishing in Open Research Europe does not give career pay-offs, says scientific advisory board member

Many pandemic trials were poor quality or duplicates of existing trials, groups say

Danish government told to build better tools and instruments to encourage cooperation between science fields

Government commits to review to improve transparency and assessment criteria

This week: sea and water research, a Finnish 6G coalition and American academy success

Meanwhile, Universities UK calls on Home Office to tackle research “immigration bureaucracy and visa costs”

Stéphanie Balme, dean at Sciences Po College, flags “authoritarian regimes that are now scientific superpowers”

Budgets increased across all four major Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions schemes for 2022

ERC president warns against “scientific populism” and announces new taskforce for research assessment reform

Intelligence service wants adapted regulation to enable faster response to cyberattacks on Dutch infrastructure

But rising equality among graduates does not translate into more female senior academics

This week: policy impact, funding for risky social science and tight times for European Universities

The thoughts that even successful academics must keep to themselves

Universities UK says institutions need government grant to “cushion” likely loss of Horizon Europe funding

Country joins South Korea in expressing intent to join Horizon Europe at EU-Japan summit

This week: applied research funding, biomedical research priorities and a digital team-up

Survey of more than 5,000 PhD students finds most are living on minimum bursary

Evaluator publicly protests against perceived “nepotism and parochial interests” in researcher evaluation

Sida urged to “reconsider” ending decades-long support scheme for Uganda’s flagship university

Timeline in sight for implementing agreement to move away from narrow focus on scholarly publications

A one-size-fits-all approach to research evaluation helps exploitative publishers, warns Emanuel Kulczyck

Member states unlikely to support scoreboard for tracking European Research Area progress, university groups say