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Flow of students in both directions likely to increase as undergraduate and postgraduate degrees recognised by institutions and employers

Institutions in the European countries face ‘contamination’ as governments group them with more regulated parts of the education system

Data from seven years’ worth of Horizon 2020 grants shows you ‘don't need to tell researchers what to do’, ERC president says

Planned reductions to Foreign Ministry budget would hurt institutional cooperation and leave researchers in the lurch, DAAD exchange service says

Even before Covid led to so many job losses among casual and fixed-term academic staff, mass insecurity was increasingly being recognised as a blight on the sector. But is there any realistic prospect of permanent contracts all round? Ben Upton examines the cases of Germany and the Netherlands

This year’s wins in ‘Nobel Prize of maths’ show bloc’s research programme must be open to UK and Switzerland, leaders say

Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide

Winners of internal competitions will not be eligible for research council grants, as power shifts to government

Lecturer protests innocence but steps down from government ahead of role leading EU policymaking

Clear majority of survey respondents from Poland and Italy believe ‘making a lot of money’ was an incentive for scientists working on Covid-19

Funder pushes deadline for awardees to finalise departure plans or lose EU funding back to 29 June