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Science|Business Funding Newswire No. 90 | 20 January 2026 | Sign up here 

Your source for funding analyses & insight 

Welcome to this week’s Science|Business Funding Newswire


We kick off today’s newsletter with an explainer on Horizon Europe’s newest industrial research partnership, which aims to support European virtual worlds technology.


Next up, a UK survey finds that precarious academic contracts are discouraging high-risk research, as academics unsure of their future choose to play it safe.


In more bad news for academics: generative AI is making academic writing more difficult to read, especially from academics who are not native English speakers.


This week’s Funding Radar highlights the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s €20 million call for research on sex differences in cardiovascular disease, and the Data Corner looks at the latest trends in EU state aid spending on research and development.


Finally, in this week’s Insider’s View we hear from the European Startup Network chief on why Europe's dispersed innovation scene is its strength rather than a weakness.

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

FUNDING INTELLIGENCE

Explained: why the EU has launched a virtual worlds partnership


Horizon Europe’s newest partnership with industry will develop European tech for computer-simulated environments 

Fixed-term academic contracts discourage ‘radical’ research


Survey of UK researchers finds that precarious employment leads to conservative science

AI is making your papers harder to read


Researchers warn that AI-aided academic writing only looks better at first, and it’s not levelling the playing field for non-native speakers

Funding Radar: €20M set aside for research on sex differences in cardiovascular disease


Novo Nordisk Foundation seeks collaborative clinical and mechanistic studies to improve female heart health

THE DATA CORNER

Data corner: EU R&D state aid spending is growing


Governments spent €14.16 billion subsidising large R&D projects in 2024

INSIDER'S VIEW

Viewpoint: Europe’s strength lies in its multiplicity of innovation scenes


From Stockholm to Sofia, start-ups are thriving in regions all around Europe, says European Startup Network chief

SPONSORED

Global Health EDCTP3 makes available €147 million for research and innovation projects

Supported by Global Health EDCTP3

In 2026, the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking will fund up to €147 million in research and innovation projects tackling tuberculosis, lower respiratory tract infections, HIV and climate-change-driven infectious diseases, among other topics.

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UPCOMING

20 January. The European University Association kicks off a series of webinars exploring how universities can position themselves in increasingly polarised societies. Register here.


20-21 January. Info days for all of Horizon Europe's five Missions. Register here.


20 January. The European Commission presents what's new in Horizon Europe. Tune in here.


22 January. The Austrian Research Promotion Agency explores how to knowledge can go from lab to market in the next Horizon Europe programme. Register here to attend in Brussels.


22 January. Info session on the Dutch Research Council's €1 million Open Mind call for projects that go beyond conventional frameworks. Register here.


28 January. Looking to the newly proposed European Competitiveness Fund, the European Parliament’s budget committee reviews lessons learnt financing competitiveness in the current EU budget. Read more here.

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