As part of its latest budget, the Australian government has announced a four-year, AUD 5.7 billion ($4.41 billion) investment in R&D. The Education Investment Fund (EIF) will receive AUD 3 billion for university research and infrastructure. In the EIF’s first two rounds, 31 projects costing AUD 934 have been accepted. Round two of funding includes […]

France’s new nanotechnology program, Nano-INNOV, will receive €70 million ($98 million) in funding, including €46 million to support the construction of a research center in Saclay science park. Construction, which will begin by year end, is expected to be expedited because the new lab will be built using the design of existing labs. Nano-INNOV will […]

Since 2006, the Japanese government has steadily invested in neuroscience research. On an annual basis, the government provides ¥30 billion ($290 million) to brain science, or 7% of its budget for the life sciences. Efforts include the formation by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s Council for Science of a Brain Science […]

A Brazilian pluripotent stem cell research initiative will award eight university labs with $9.3 million grants over three years to create Cell Technology Centers. One such Center, the National Laboratory for Human Embryonic Cells (LaNCE), based at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of São Paulo will house a national stem […]

The Japanese government plans to create a ¥270 billion ($2.7 billion) fund for research. Up to 30 research teams would receive ¥9 billion in funding over a three-to-five year period. Unlike other research grants, funds left over could be used during the following fiscal year and researchers will be given greater freedom in how they […]