Funding policy: Europe needs research networks

Funding policy: Europe needs research networks - Peter Dederichs Nature 480, 321 (15 December 2011)

A new European science-policy body, ScienceEurope, was launched in October to give a stronger voice in Brussels to the major national research-funding agencies. Likely casualties of this effort include some of the most successful activities of the venerated European Science Foundation, causing major concern among many scientists.