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...

UK at 60-70% of past performance in Horizon collaborations, says Russell Group

by ATHENA | Jul 17, 2025 | News

The UK is only winning 60-70% of the collaborative research grants it previously brought in before its long absence from the EU’s research Framework Programmes, according to the country’s Russell Group of research universities.  After years of Brexit-related...