The UK’s financial sector is at odds with its European peers. While the continent’s banks retreat from coal financing, British institutions are stepping up their support for the fossil fuel industry
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“Europe is doing reasonably well. It’s trying to strengthen itself and be more independent from the USA.”
Berlin, 24 June 2026 – The Sovereignty Alliance for European Network Technology (SAFENet), together with the Innovate Europe Foundation (IE.F) and Berlin-based consultancy iconomy, publishes a new foundational study revealing that 93% of European internet traffic flows through routers and yet the EU has no sovereignty framework for this key component of the digital ecosystem.…
Open science, with its defining features of transparency, knowledge sharing and increased access, is fundamental to securing the world’s future. It promotes communication and trust at a time when faith in science and research is under threat globally. However, maintaining confidence and quality in science and its influence on policy and innovation remains a challenge.…
#STARTING GRANTS #RESEARCH FUNDING ERC Starting Grants: €705 million to back Europe’s next generation of researchers 3 September 2026 The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Several European researchers who applied…
3D-printed construction is still definitely on the cutting edge, but it’s moving toward the mainstream remarkably quickly. The latest major stride comes from Denmark, where a team has completed what it calls Europe’s largest 3D-printed housing project, creating a community of 36 self-contained student apartments
Ending hybrid funding without backing Open Research Europe will hit UK researchers, says Rob Johnson
Wildfires could burn nearly three times as much of Europe each year by the end of the century.
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