‘We need global collaboration to get scale, to find solutions where there are market failures, or even government failures,’ says John-Arne Røttingen tinyurl.com/4fh45bm4

We analyse the views of 15 groups of stakeholders to see how they want measures designed to close the east – west research performance gap to change in FP10: tinyurl.com/4zyjmxx2

After long use in engineering, digital twins are proliferating in other sectors, thanks to an abundance of data, driving new opportunities for start-ups: tinyurl.com/ymkkh9ph

The communist legacy in central and eastern Europe leaves researchers exposed to fee-charging publishers who don’t do peer review or editing. But a fightback is underway: tinyurl.com/yad8v35c

The German federal government has published its discussion paper with their priorities for the preparation of the EU’s 10th framework programme for research and innovation (FP10), the successor to Horizon Europe tinyurl.com/trnt8r4p

EU ministers called for increased public and private investment to support innovation in the space sector, as they pledged to use space to boost European competitiveness. Read more: tinyurl.com/mw375v3z

A growing number of European universities are ending their ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, including in existing Horizon Europe projects, raising questions over Israel’s future in EU research. Read more: tinyurl.com/22txzju3

Try out our two-week free trial of Funding Newswire, your source for exclusive insights into research funding. Starting this week, Funding Newswire is a subscription-based service.
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In the global race to develop artificial intelligence, the US is leading in money, China in science – and Europe is lagging far behind, according to a new analysis by the OECD. Read more stats of this Funding Newswire article with our 2 week free trial: tinyurl.com/2w5bputt

The European Commission will open this year’s €608.6 million MarieSkłodowskaCurie doctoral networks call for proposals next week.
Here’s what the programme funds and who is eligible to apply: tinyurl.com/yc37hujt

Former MEP and now Portugal’s environment minister, Maria Graça Carvalho, has reiterated her support for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (@EITeu) amid mounting calls for the agency to be scrapped. Read more: tinyurl.com/msd479pf

The EU invested €8B in quantum tech over six years, supporting 100+ projects and 550 research groups. The Strategic Research and Industry Agenda aims to strengthen academia-industry ties by 2030. Subscribe and read the best quantum tech calls of the week: tinyurl.com/46zrzw2b

The European Commission needs to step up its oversight of the private consultants that are playing an increasingly prominent role in Europe’s innovation funding system, as competition to win grants from Horizon Europe increases tinyurl.com/2e9wtyb9

The PERISCOPE project has created a controlled human infection model and a cell bank, which facilitated the development of a promising nasal vaccine for the pertussis bacteria. Read more of this
Innovative Health Initiative article to learn more: tinyurl.com/274e4u97

Discover the evolutionary journey of vitamin D in Prof. Carsten Carlberg's latest paper in Nutrients. From its origins 1.2 billion years ago to its role in modern human health, learn how lifestyle changes have impacted vitamin D deficiency worldwide: tinyurl.com/beepu9ku

In polarised times, it is critical that we take a nuanced approach to designing the next framework programme, FP10. Read more of Ricardo Miguéis' viewpoint here: tinyurl.com/3zrdwhu4

Médecins Sans Frontière has published itemised costs of a $36 million trial it conducted comparing different drug combinations for treating tuberculosis and wants others to follow suit, in a bid to foster transparency around the cost of clinical research tinyurl.com/y4fk548v

Technology transfer and innovation are central themes of Germany’s traffic light government coalition, but the scientific institutions responsible for technology transfer suffer from insufficient resources and a lack of appreciation: tinyurl.com/54scrnef

Germany’s technology translation body, one of the world’s leading applied research organisations, says the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is “overly complex, costly and non-transparent” and should be “discontinued” tinyurl.com/2jhx9u2s

In a flurry of position papers released over the past few months, research lobbies have been calling for a €200 billion budget for FP10. Now, some of those organisations have teamed up to launch Research Matters campaign to make their requests louder: tinyurl.com/2uecjsj5