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Science|Business is a communications and media firm focused on European research and innovation. With over 12 years of experience in delivering news and organizing events throughout the EU, we have developed a strong network of partnerships with universities and industries, particularly in the healthcare field. Our initiative, Science|Business Healthy Measures, receives backing from prominent organizations such as Amgen, EIT Health France, GE, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Sanofi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, and Warwick Medical School. Representatives from these partners participate in our Steering Committee to help plan our activities, alongside observers from the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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France creates platform to attract US and other disaffected researchers

16 hours ago | sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala

The French government has launched a platform to pair universities and research organisations with international researchers looking to relocate. Called Choose France for Science, the platform is particularly interested in attracting researchers working in areas related to health, climate change, digital technologies and space. While created as a response to the mounting pressure on US scientists, the initiative will be open to all.
Shielding democracy gains ground as a research priority, draft plans show

19 hours ago | sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala

The rise of authoritarian political movements worldwide is pushing the European Commission to reorganise funding priorities for research, with several new calls for proposals on threats to democracy set to feature in the last two years of Horizon Europe.
Europe’s quantum tech companies need more users, say funding experts

3 days ago | sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala

Quantum technologies are heralded by the European Commission as key for the future security and prosperity of Europe. But Europe’s investors are heading in the opposite direction. According to a recent report from the European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), investment in Europe’s quantum start-ups fell by 40% between 2023 and 2024. In the US, meanwhile, it tripled over the same period.
ERC mobilises stakeholders to support link between basic research and competitiveness

1 week ago | sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala

As the EU’s champion of basic, curiosity-driven research, the European Research Council (ERC) is struggling to find its place in a policy discourse dominated by competitiveness. So, on April 10, it brought together Nobel prize winners and industry leaders, amongst others, for a high-level event in Brussels to discuss how innovation is built on basic research.
How Germany’s innovation agency wants to set up a military offshoot

1 week ago | sciencebusiness.net | David Matthews

Sprind, Germany’s innovation agency, is hoping to set up a sister organisation focused on military technology, after the country’s new government said it would be allowed to move explicitly into defence. Up until now, the five-year-old agency has focused on civilian technologies, such as new cures for Alzheimer’s disease and energy storage, although it does have some dual-use projects, for instance involving autonomous drones.
Egypt joins Horizon Europe despite academic freedom concerns

2 weeks ago | sciencebusiness.net | David Matthews

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, on the right, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Photo credits: Christophe Licoppe / European Union
China leads EU and US on using artificial intelligence in science

2 weeks ago | sciencebusiness.net | Martin Greenacre |David Matthews

Chinese scientists have incorporated artificial intelligence into their work more rapidly than their EU or US counterparts, a European Commission analysis has found, bolstering the case for the bloc to speed up adoption. New AI aids, such as the protein folding prediction tool AlphaFold, have changed how some scientists work, although there are concerns that an overreliance on AI could reduce scientific serendipity, for example.
Swiss take further step towards Horizon Europe association

2 weeks ago | sciencebusiness.net | David Matthews

Switzerland’s Federal Council has signed off an agreement that will allow the country to join Horizon Europe, another step towards ending a diplomatic stalemate over association that has dragged on since 2021. On April 9, the council approved the EU Programmes Agreement, which allows association to Horizon Europe, the Euratom atomic research programme and the Digital Europe Programme.
New leadership in Germany may tip the balance in Europe’s debate on nuclear power

2 weeks ago | sciencebusiness.net | Juliette Portala

Europe’s governments are divided on the role nuclear power should play in meeting the EU’s decarbonisation targets. Some argue that nuclear is environmentally inferior to renewable energy, and should take a back seat. Others think the two power sources should be treated equally. The balance in this argument will experience a small but significant shift with the likely appointment of Friedrich Merz as chancellor of Germany, a near certainty following the agreement of a governing coalition this week.
Data corner: Europeans’ views of science and technology

2 weeks ago | sciencebusiness.net | David Matthews

Europeans have widely divergent views on whether the private sector should be free to exploit new science and technology, or if the government should take firm control, according to a major survey of public attitudes. In Portugal, nearly eight in ten people think science and technology should be “tightly regulated” by the government. In Finland, by contrast, just one in four thinks the same.