As the Irish EU Presidency prepares its EU budget negotiating box, CESAER calls for at least €200 billion for FP10 and €60 billion for Erasmus+. A report published today with six partner organisations reinforces the case for sustained investment in Europe’s future.

On 1 October 2026 CESAER President Orla Feely moderated a panel on attracting and empowering young research talent at the MSCA anniversary event.

CESAER calls for the EIT to become the EU’s reference programme for innovation-focused talent development, connecting education, research and business across Europe.

CESAER welcomes the European Commission’s proposal for a European Innovation Act as a positive step towards making Europe a better place to develop, test and scale research-based innovation. To deliver on Europe’s competitiveness ambitions, these measures must now form part of a broader approach connecting excellent science with talent, infrastructure, capital and markets.

Speaking in Brussels on 9 September, CESAER President Orla Feely called for sustained investment across science, technology and innovation, underpinned by research excellence and a strong, autonomous next Framework Programme (FP10).

CESAER and partners today convene a high-level event in Brussels and publish a joint statement on research and innovation in the EU’s next seven-year budget.

Europe’s R&I community must build political support in every member state capital, says CESAER Secretary General Mattias Björnmalm

CESAER has been appointed to the European Commission’s STEAM Executive Panel, where it will be represented by Petri Suomala, Vice President for Education and International Partnerships at Aalto University and Co-Chair of the CESAER Task Force European Higher Education. CESAER’s Board of Directors has appointed Petri as CESAER Envoy for this role until 31 December 2027.

The first CESAER Leadership Programme brought together 27 emerging and mid-career leaders from across our network for five days of leadership development, peer exchange and European perspectives in Glasgow.

Universities are not being asked to abandon open science, but they do need to engage more openly with the security and dual-use implications of their research, writes Jan S. Hesthaven, President of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.