Newsletter 7 November 2025

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) published its 'Annual report on EU agencies for the 2024 financial year' on 30 October 2025. In its report, the ECA gives good marks to the 43 EU agencies, which include the ERC Executive Agency (E…

In its 'Annual report on EU joint undertakings for the 2024 financial year', published on 31 October 2025, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has approved the 2024 accounts and underlying transactions of the EU’s 11 Joint Undertakin…

The European Commission has opened a call for evidence to shape the future EU Quantum Act. The Act is scheduled for adoption in 2026 and has three main objectives for this critical and dual-use technology: first, to boost research and innovatio…

The European Commission and the Republic of Armenia held the fourth meeting of the EU-Armenia Joint Research and Innovation (R&I) Committee under the agreement associating Armenia to Horizon Europe in Yerevan, Armenia, on 23 October 2025. T…

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Board has welcomed the European Commission's ambitious proposal to expand the EIC under the forthcoming 10th EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP10), with a strategic increase in budg…

The European Commission has published a study which offers a comprehensive legal, policy, and comparative analysis of the freedom of scientific research across the EU and selected non-EU countries. It examines both the formal (de jure) and prac…

At the European AI in Science Summit, hosted by the European Commission and the Danish EU Council Presidency, policymakers unveiled the pilot of RAISE – the Resource for Artificial Intelligence Science in Europe. Executive Vice-President Henna …

At the EOSC Symposium 2025 in Brussels, the start of the EOSC Federation was celebrated. This is an important step in making the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) a reality. EOSC wants to make it easier for researchers all over Europe to work …

on 5 November 2025, the European Commission launched work on a code of practice on the marking and labelling of AI-generated content.Under the AI Act, content such as deepfakes and certain AI-generated text and other synthetic material must be …

The European Innovation Council (EIC) Board has welcomed the 2026 EIC Work Programme as a key milestone in advancing Europe’s deep-tech and scale-up ambitions. With a focus on Advanced Innovation Challenges, a more streamlined Accelerator, and …

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has received 667 project proposals for its 29 October 2025 EIC Pathfinder Challenges deadline. These proposals involved a total of 3825 participants. The requested budget amounts to € 2.5 billion. The total…

Sixty-six research teams, made up of a total of 239 scientists, will be awarded €684 million from the European Research Council through Synergy Grants. These grants are designed to support small groups of researchers who collaborate on ambitiou…

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