Does Europe invest enough in R&D?
The objective of Europe's Framework Programme was to invest 3% of its GDP into Research & Development. It only reached 2.03% so far, behind China (2.11%) and far behind the…
€4.1 billion Euro for European Defence research
The European Parliament voted to assign a budget of €4.1 billion to the military research during Horizon Europe (2021-2027). With around €500 million a year, the military research spending would…
2019: €100 million more for H2020 and Erasmus+?
The European Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger proposed to add €100 million for research and students mobility to the 2019 budget. If this proposal gets the agreement of the European Parliament…
Mauro Ferrari new president of the ERC
The Italian nanobiologist Mauro Ferrari will replace Jean-Pierre Bourguignon at the head of the European Research Council. He will officially become the new president in January 2020. Mauro Ferrari is…
H2020 top networkers
The European Commission presented a diagram showing the collaboration between the different H2020 partners. It is interesting to note that most of the 13 "newer" EU-Members and most of the…