The EU is very visible in their research programmes, see for example https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/

The EU is very visible in their research programmes, see for example https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en and https://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm https://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/index_en.cfm And one of the aims of these programs are for EU research institutes to collaborate transnationally.