On April 15, the European Parliament approved €22 billion ($30.4 billion) in funds for the “innovation investment package” of Horizon 2020. Programs include public-private partnerships for the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI 2), Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2, Clean Sky 2 and Bio-Based Industries. Recipients of funding will be determined competitively. Public-public partnership areas include the […]

The Swedish government has increased its amount of R&D funding 2.6% to SEK 32.9 billion ($5.1 billion), or 4% of its total 2014 budget. Statistics Sweden estimates that approximately half the R&D budget will support institutions of higher education for a total of SEK 16.4 billion, an increase of 2.5%. The Swedish Research Council will […]

The Chinese government banned in February clinical genetic testing by hospitals and other selected medical institutions. The announcement, which was posted on the China Food and Drug Administration website, cited prenatal testing as an example of the types of tests that are affected. Permission from the government is now required in most cases in order […]

Over the next five years, science and technology research in the UK will receive an additional £222 million ($369 million) in funding, according to Chancellor George Osborne’s annual budget announcement. This funding will supplement the current budget, which is £4.6 billion for each of the next two years. Rather than helping to sustain basic science […]

The funding structure for science and research in Russia will change according to a plan proposed by the Presidential Council for Science and Education and accepted by President Vladimir Putin. The government will no longer fund fundamental research directly, and instead, researchers will compete for grants. Grant applications will be reviewed by the Council and […]