Voices from Industry, Policy and Science align on driving Europe’s Competitiveness through research & innovation – new ERC report

by ATHENA | Jul 21, 2025 | News

Europe needs to complete the single market, boost long-term, high-risk research funding, deepen academia-industry collaboration, build shared data infrastructure, foster risk-taking, and support the diversity of talent through education and supportive regulation....

EUA welcomes commitment to education, research and innovation in proposal for EU’s next long-term budget

by ATHENA | Jul 20, 2025 | News

The European University Association (EUA) welcomes the European Commission’s proposals for the EU’s next multiannual financial framework (MFF) for 2028–2034, particularly the commitment to retain Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ as stand-alone programmes. This decision...

Commutator Studios secures €1.5M for innovative quantum technology

by ATHENA | Jul 20, 2025 | News

Germany-based Commutator Studios has closed a €1.5 million funding round to advance the company’s mission of becoming an indispensable building block of quantum computing infrastructure and accelerating the adoption of quantum technology across...

Indra Group to step up research and development of defence and space technologies with €385 million in EIB financing

by ATHENA | Jul 20, 2025 | News

Credit marks EIB’s largest financing operation in Spain to strengthen EU security and defence capabilities. Financing to enable Indra to build a technological research and development centre, Indra Technology Hub, and push ahead in radar, electronic defence and other...

Conference on Ukraine Reconstruction in the Field of Research and Development and Higher Education

by ATHENA | Jul 17, 2025 | Workshops

The conference is part of the RIFF project – Research Infrastructures for the Future of Ukraine: Roadmap for Sustained Growth and Recovery, which is funded by the Horizon Europe programme.  This event seeks to spark meaningful collaboration not only...