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Science|Business Funding Newswire No. 93 | 10 February 2026 | Sign up here 

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Welcome to this week’s Science|Business Funding Newswire


We start the week with a sneak peek at Europe’s plans to improve how it supports defence research and innovation. Read why the European Parliament wants the EU to set up a Defence Innovation Accelerator inspired by the US Darpa, and how a new EU pilot will speed up funding for defence technologies.


Next, a dispatch from last week’s Science|Business conference, where experts debated radical new ideas for European R&D funding, and which programmes it should cut.


Turning to the European Parliament, lead Horizon Europe rapporteur Christian Ehler calls for better integration of the social sciences and humanities in the design of calls for EU research and innovation projects.


In this week’s Funding Radar, we highlight a call for health research projects from German pharmaceutical multinational Merck.


Finally, we turn the spotlight on Africa, with a guide to the final edition of Horizon Europe’s Africa Initiative and a breakdown of Horizon participation numbers in this week’s Data Corner.

Articles featured in the Funding Newswire are available for individual subscribers or members of the Science|Business Network. 

FUNDING INTELLIGENCE

MEPs call for EU Darpa dedicated to defence innovation


European Parliament report recommends setting up a “Defence Innovation Accelerator” to fund breakthrough research and innovation projects

EU plans to speed up funding for defence technologies


The Commission will launch a pilot instrument with much faster call procedures within the next month, the Science|Business conference heard

How Europe could back radical new R&D funding, and what it should cut


Panel debates scrapping Horizon Europe consortia, introducing prizes and chopping the European Innovation Council in half

Consider social sciences and humanities at project level, says Ehler


Horizon Europe rapporteur calls for tighter focus on integrating social sciences and humanities in research

Funding Radar: Merck funds innovative health research projects up to €500,000


The pharma company invites projects led by individual researchers from anywhere in the world and at all career stages

Explained: how the EU will spend €605M on research with Africa


The EU has announced a fourth batch of research funding for joint EU-Africa projects in health, agriculture, democracy and raw materials

THE DATA CORNER

Data corner: Africa in Horizon Europe in three charts


Health and agriculture are the top cooperation areas, as the EU promises to spend €1.7 billion on Horizon Europe’s Africa Initiative

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UPCOMING

10 February. A Horizon Europe info day for collaborative health research calls. Register here.


14 February. The Munich Security Conference hosts its first-ever start-up hub. Attendance is by invitation only, but you can read about it here.


17 February. A European Commission workshop on how transdisciplinary can drive innovation from lab to market. Register here.


18 February. Info day for the EU’s Research Fund for Coal and Steel. Register here.


18 February. The European IP Helpdesk hosts an introductory workshop on technology transfer. Register here.


24 February. Germany’s information hub for European research funding, KoWI, discusses Horizon Europe’s knowledge valorisation norms and standards. Register to join here.


25 February. Brokerage event for those interested in applying for Horizon Europe’s interdisciplinary AI projects involving social sciences. Register here.

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