The International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers, which represents the organisations most directly affected financially, was one voice of caution, saying it is "vital" that researchers have the freedom to publish where they choose.

A group of European funders, including the European Commission, will soon require researchers to publish only in open-access outlets that the funders consider high quality, the Commission’s open-access envoy has said.

The European Parliament has paused the progress of controversial EU copyright proposals, which R&D organisations have said would be damaging for innovation, meaning they could now be revised.

Swiss participation in some of the EU’s largest and most prestigious funding programmes is being threatened by rules proposed for 2021-27.

Horizon Europe will pay article processing charges only "for purely open-access publishing venues (i.e. not 'hybrid' journals)". The change would be controversial as it could prevent researchers from publishing in their first-choice locations.

The League of European Research Universities has published a roadmap to help universities around the world implement open-science practices.

With detailed proposals on the next R&D programme due within weeks, MEP Christian Ehler, the European Parliament’s Horizon 2020 lead, explained his priorities to Ben Upton.

EU research ministers will meet at the end of the month to debate how the EU’s next R&D programme, Horizon Europe, can help address the bloc’s societal and economic challenges.

The EU’s next R&D funding programme might provide more diffuse support for industry and be more open to non-EU countries, a document apparently leaked from the European Commission suggests.

The UK’s continued participation in European Union research programmes and bodies such as the European Medicines Agency should be among the criteria by which a Brexit deal is judged, MPs have said.

EU leaders’ rejection of British government requests for associate membership of EU agencies and programmes after Brexit has been met with widespread dismay.

UK to remain part of the EU single market and customs union, as well as EU programmes, between 29 March 2019 - the date it leaves the block - and 31 December 2020, the end of the transition period.

Like Darpa, Jedi will aim to deliver developmental milestones along the path to strategically important technologies, including through prototyping. It will sit between academia and industry and fund projects lasting no more than two years.

Direct funding of regional university networks is being talked about by the EC and national governments. Another option would be rewarding universities according to how much they contribute to local innovation - using an assessment similar to the UK’s REF. EU support for universities is currently channelled only to specific projects, with no institutional discretion.

The drop in the UK’s share of EU funding for research and innovation has been steepest in the more collaborative parts of the Framework programme.

Dominic Raab, the justice minister, has said that the UK government will lay out "its vision" for cooperation with the European Atomic Energy Community, Euratom, within weeks.

EU research ministers have backed away from calling for a major funding increase for the bloc’s next research and innovation Framework programme.

The UK government’s long-awaited industrial strategy has arrived. It brings with it a fund to support interdisciplinary research and funding boosts for both the research councils and quality-related research funding.

A drop in the total number of students from both the UK and the European Union entering higher education this year.

People with doctorates who go on to work in universities are less happy on average than those working elsewhere, a large-scale European survey has found.

The 2018 Horizon 2020 budget will be €11.2 billion, after the European Parliament managed to fend off a half-billion-euro cut proposed by EU member state governments.

"Amsterdam promises a bright future for the EMA—a city of great clout, excellent flight connections and quality of life," said Fernand Sauer, the agency’s founding director.

Researchers across Europe think the design of Framework 9 is suffering from a lack of British expertise because of Brexit, according to Venki Ramakrishnan.

About 40 scientific unions and associations plus 140 national and regional science academies and research councils will be subsumed under the umbrella organisation.

The number of EU students applying to UK undergraduate courses with an October deadline has risen in 2017.