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- EU science advisers back call for a 'CERN for AI' to aid research https://sciencebusiness.net/news/ai/eu-science-advisers-back-call-cern-ai-aid-research 59 comments
- France, Germany, Italy call for single EU industrial strategy. It is time for Europe to “show its teeth”. The EU needs a common strategy in response to Chinese interventionism and US protectionism https://sciencebusiness.net/news/industry/france-germany-italy-call-single-eu-industrial-strategy 197 comments europe
- Commission unlocks €5.4B of member state aid in hydrogen technologies https://sciencebusiness.net/news/commission-unlocks-eu54b-member-state-aid-hydrogen-technologies 28 comments europe
- Denmark tells universities to suspend all cooperation with Russia https://sciencebusiness.net/news/denmark-tells-universities-suspend-all-cooperation-russia 109 comments worldnews
- Swiss on the hunt for new research partners outside the EU as Horizon Europe exclusion continues https://sciencebusiness.net/news/swiss-hunt-new-research-partners-outside-eu-horizon-europe-exclusion-continues 50 comments europe
- Is global AI harmonisation actually achievable? Experts detect the emergence of a patchy international convergence around the use of artificial intelligence. https://sciencebusiness.net/data-rules/news/global-ai-harmonisation-actually-achievable 9 comments futurology
- European universities hit with Russian disinformation about student expulsions https://sciencebusiness.net/news/european-universities-hit-russian-disinformation-about-student-expulsions 9 comments science
- Finland seals political commitment to raise R&D spending to 4% of GDP https://sciencebusiness.net/news/finland-seals-political-commitment-raise-rd-spending-4-gdp 25 comments europe
- EU bars Switzerland from Horizon Europe as it tells UK to start applying for grants https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-bars-switzerland-horizon-europe-it-tells-uk-start-applying-grants 107 comments europe
- Brussels stands firm on plan to limit foreign access to ‘sensitive’ R&D projects: Revised plan maintains exclusions for non-EU countries in projects that touch on “sensitive Union assets” https://sciencebusiness.net/technology-strategy-board/news/brussels-stands-firm-plan-limit-foreign-access-sensitive-rd-projects 24 comments europe
- Israel, Switzerland and UK make last-gasp pitches to keep access to major EU quantum and space research projects https://sciencebusiness.net/news/israel-switzerland-and-uk-make-last-gasp-pitches-keep-access-major-eu-quantum-and-space 24 comments europe
- Israel, Switzerland and UK face exclusion from major EU quantum and space research projects https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/israel-switzerland-and-uk-face-exclusion-major-eu-quantum-and-space 114 comments europe
- Emmanuel Macron lays out a €1.8B strategy to slingshot France into becoming a quantum powerhouse, as Germany draws up a €2B programme of quantum research as part of its pandemic recovery plan https://sciencebusiness.net/news/france-and-germany-line-quantum-leap 10 comments europe
- Anger among research groups as Michel makes €5B cut to Horizon Europe https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/anger-among-research-groups-michel-makes-eu5b-cut-horizon-europe 12 comments europe
- South Africa: Hydrogen fuel cells to be deployed in support of COVID-19 response. "Containerised hydrogen fuel cells can be deployed quickly to provide clean power to such facilities, even if they are temporary." https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/south-africa-hydrogen-fuel-cells-be-deployed-support-covid-19-response 3 comments energy
- Physics worth more to EU economy than retail and financial services, says study https://sciencebusiness.net/physics-worth-more-eu-economy-retail-and-financial-services-says-study 6 comments europe
- The US green economy is worth $1.3 trillion per year. The size of the green economy and employment in the US grew by 20% between 2013 and 2016. Creating 1.5 million jobs. The coal industry saw a decline of 37,000 jobs. https://sciencebusiness.net/network-updates/according-ucl-study-us-green-economy-worth-13-trillion-year 66 comments science
- Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s new souped-up digital and big tech regulator, has promised ethical and human-centred rules on artificial intelligence (AI) in the first 100 days of her mandate. https://sciencebusiness.net/news/vestager-promises-europe-will-go-its-own-way-artificial-intelligence-rules 30 comments europe
- EU to vote on renewing scientific relations with Russia https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-vote-renewing-scientific-relations-russia 14 comments europe
- With EIC, Commission lays plans to become Europe’s next big tech investor https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/eic-commission-lays-plans-become-europes-next-big-tech-investor 8 comments europe
- China on a mission to accelerate past Europe in particle physics - Proposal to build world’s largest particle collider is facing off against a rival effort in Switzerland. ‘We just need one in the world,’ says Wang Yifang, physicist and mastermind behind China’s accelerator https://sciencebusiness.net/news/china-mission-accelerate-past-europe-particle-physics 27 comments europe
- There goes the neighbourhood? Israel, Norway and Switzerland fear poorer access to EU science programme https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/there-goes-neighbourhood-israel-norway-and-switzerland-fear-poorer-access 25 comments europe
- Commission’s new €9.2B procurement programme, Digital Europe, aims to grab EU the lead in supercomputing https://sciencebusiness.net/news/commissions-new-eu92b-procurement-programme-aims-grab-eu-lead-supercomputing 5 comments europe
- No ‘cherry-picking’ EU research programmes, Germans warn UK https://sciencebusiness.net/news/no-cherry-picking-eu-research-programmes-germans-warn-uk 32 comments europe
- Oettinger: “One answer to Euroscepticism is to get young people into contact with other young Europeans during their studies” https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/blocking-increase-research-budget-would-put-europe-losers-path 255 comments europe
- EU launches €1B project to build world’s fastest supercomputer https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-launches-eu1b-project-build-worlds-fastest-supercomputer 5 comments worldnews
- EU and national funders launch plan for free and immediate open access to journals https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-and-national-funders-launch-plan-free-and-immediate-open-access-journals 12 comments opensource
- The EU and national funders launch a plan to make all publicly funded research available for free instead of scientific publications hiding it behind their pay walls. https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-and-national-funders-launch-plan-free-and-immediate-open-access-journals 1317 comments worldnews
- Researchers make mini-brains from skin cells https://sciencebusiness.net/network-news/researchers-make-mini-brains-skin 7 comments science
- Free access to research papers by 2020 ‘impossible without radical steps’, says EU official Robert-Jan Smits https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/free-access-research-papers-2020-impossible-without-radical-steps-says-eu 12 comments science
- EU launches €1bn project to build fastest supercomputer in the world by 2023 - The exascale supercomputer will be capable of one quintillion calculations per second, making it ten times faster than today’s top-of-the-line models https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-launches-eu1b-project-build-fastest-supercomputer-world-2023 5 comments technology
- EU launches €1bn project to build fastest supercomputer in the world by 2023 - The exascale supercomputer will be capable of one quintillion calculations per second, making it ten times faster than today’s top-of-the-line models https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-launches-eu1b-project-build-fastest-supercomputer-world-2023 112 comments europe
- EU launches €1bn project to build fastest supercomputer in the world by 2023 - The exascale supercomputer will be capable of one quintillion calculations per second, making it ten times faster than today’s top-of-the-line models https://sciencebusiness.net/news/eu-launches-eu1b-project-build-fastest-supercomputer-world-2023 5 comments worldnews
- Artificial Intelligence: World is ‘'astonishingly pessimistic,’ says EU research commissioner. Media are too full of ‘alarmist, hysterical’ doomsday scenarios, says Carlos Moedas, as EU looks at ways to block flow of online misinformation https://sciencebusiness.net/news/artificial-intelligence-world-astonishingly-pessimistic-says-eu-research-commissioner 7 comments worldnews
- Artificial Intelligence: World is ‘'astonishingly pessimistic,’ says EU research commissioner. Media are too full of ‘alarmist, hysterical’ doomsday scenarios, says Carlos Moedas, as EU looks at ways to block flow of online misinformation https://sciencebusiness.net/news/artificial-intelligence-world-astonishingly-pessimistic-says-eu-research-commissioner 6 comments technology
- EU R&D programme to raise researcher salaries in low-income countries http://sciencebusiness.net/news/80158/eu-increases-horizon-2020-salaries-in-low-income-countries 26 comments europe
- Confusion and anger in Romania as government shuts down science bodies http://sciencebusiness.net/news/80138/confusion-and-anger-in-romania-as-government-shuts-down-science-bodies#.wkwkpqoqu70.facebook 13 comments europe
- Macedonian miracle as eHealth system ends hospital waiting lists http://sciencebusiness.net/health/news/2017/macedonian-miracle-as-ehealth-system-ends-hospital-waiting-lists/ 4 comments europe
- EU urges industry to speed the arrival of self-driving cars http://www.sciencebusiness.net/news/77444/eu-urges-industry-to-speed-the-arrival-of-self-driving-cars 6 comments europe
- France threatens to walk away from TTIP negotiations saying a "total lack of transparency" in TTIP talks poses a "democratic problem". http://www.sciencebusiness.net/news/77218/france-threatens-to-walk-away-from-ttip-negotiations? 3092 comments worldnews