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Research Commissioner Zaharieva, the EU Parliament and EU countries have all confirmed their support for a stand-alone Framework Programme 10 (FP10) with an increased budget. However, the decision of whether to continue with FP10 or incorporate the R&I grants in the new Competitiveness Compass Fund hasn’t been finalised. It may depend directly on EU Commission President Von der Leyen and her…

The pace and scale of developments make it difficult to report on every change of impact in the US. Here are some key recent developments: The Senate confirmed Michael Kratsios as director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Dr Jayanta Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health. This should mean that we’ll hear very soon about further…

The US narrowly averted a government shutdown this weekend with a Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government for the rest of the fiscal year (through 30 September 2025). While CR legislation generally keeps funding flat, the bill includes several provisions that eliminate grants and provide more authority to the administration to carry out additional…

The Trump administration has continued its attack on the federal workforce and is proposing sweeping changes to federal science funding, creating significant disruptions across the US research ecosystem that will impact scholarly publishing. Since our last newsletter, the administration has, amongst other things: Continued staff firings across the government Announced plans to cancel hundreds of…

On 19 February, the ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) Committee voted with a strong majority on their position of the 10th Framework Programme. The EU Parliament is asking for a standalone FP10 with an increased budget of €200 billion and governance that is more expert-driven than top-down. The position mentions the need to balance openness and research security, the benefits…

The European Commission has established a living repository to support AI literacy, a requirement of the AI Act that took effect last month. AI providers and deployers have to ensure AI literacy among their staff and users, regardless of the risk level of the AI models or systems they use. The non-exhaustive but regularly updated repository is…

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) requires every e-book to have a description of its accessibility features. Confused about how to add this accessibility metadata to your publications? AIE and Fondazione LIA are offering an online training course that will get you up to speed on how to distribute and effectively display accessibility metadata throughout the publishing supply chain….

The change in the US administration is having very palpable repercussions in the EU, where key digital regulation is meant to impose obligations on US tech giants (e.g., Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, AI Act). The ongoing discussions on the EU Code of Practice for AI companies, aimed at specifying concrete obligations to comply with the AI Act,…

On 25 February, the Canadian government announced its draft revised OA policy, with details on how to submit comments online (through 31 March). STM expects to submit comments to the Tri-Agencies that govern research grants and encourages members to do so as well. The draft policy requires: Immediate access to ‘all agency-funded, peer-reviewed research articles published by agency-funded grantees…

The first month of the Trump Administration has been marked by staff cuts, funding freezes and a broad re-evaluation of the US government’s approach to science, science communications and funding. The full impact of these actions is unclear, and most are currently subject to legal challenges. Significant actions include: Multiple firings across the government (with some staff then reinstated) Freezes…