European Commission and Georgia have signed the agreement granting Georgia the association status to Horizon Europe, the EU's research and innovation programme (2021-2027).

Europe must not let Covid-19 wreck the prospects of early career researchers, says Jean-Pierre Bourguignon The pandemic has had a profound impact on the way many sectors of society function.

EU member state governments have given a sign that they will support the creation of a European Innovation Area policy package to sit alongside the blocks similar initiatives for research and education.

Like the rest of the world, Morocco is grappling with climate change and scientists in the country are exploring ways to develop more sustainable agriculture. Research and development has become a top priority for many African universities.

Women now make up more than 25 per cent of professors in the Netherlands and the country is on track for proportional male-female representation by 2040, a study has shown. Institutions need a systematic overhaul

Research organisations have told the EU what it should do to improve the bloc's innovation ecosystem, via a survey the European Commission conducted to identify ways of better translating research results into better life.

The EU is considering proposals to boost adult learning by adopting a Europe-wide approach to 'micro-credentials'—small-scale certificates of learning—and person-specific learning 'accounts'.

Switzerland's government has given the go-ahead for the country to become a full member of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, an international project to build the most sensitive radio telescope

A two-year delay costing an estimated €550 million has been announced for the construction of the European Spallation Source, a particle accelerator research facility being built in Lund, Sweden.