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Scientific leaders have urged the government not to abandon talks to enable the UK to participate in a €100bn European research programme.
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Up to 20% of Queens University's research funding is at risk due to a row between the EU and UK.
UK minister for science and research George Freeman has admitted that vital EU funding for research is in limbo while the nation continues to negotiate Brexit sticking points, namely Northern Ireland and fishing rights.
Hundreds of researchers and organisations across Europe have called for the rapid association of the UK and Switzerland to Horizon Europe.
Scientific collaboration has become a casualty of Switzerland’s and the United Kingdom’s tussles with the European Union.
Dispute over Northern Ireland protocol puts associate membership of Horizon Europe scheme in doubt.
"Rewarding Britain for its threats is simply inconceivable. Brexit means Brexit, it’s a self-inflicted wound.”
Nicholas Walton gives up leadership of €2.8m pan-European research after dispute over Northern Ireland protocol.
The European Union (EU) has confirmed it is holding back the UK’s access to the £81bn ‘Horizon Europe’ programme as a response to Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up the Northern Ireland protocol.
I’M not sure what I shudder harder at: how many times in this column over the years of the Brexit process and since that I have had to mention Boris Johnson – or how many times I will have to mention him in the future.
At least 16 recipients of prestigious ERC grants making plans to reject UK offer and move their labs abroad.
The economic fallout from leaving the EU is becoming all too apparent.
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Nineteen researchers to move to EU institutions while 115 forfeit grants as they stay in Britain.
More than 100 grants previously approved for applicants in Britain have been scrapped amid a continuing dispute over the UK’s refusal to fully implement trade arrangements made when the country left the European Union.
Boris Johnson’s days as prime minister may be finally numbered but the damage his government has done will live on, not least in the scientific community where over 100 prestigious EU grants have been withdrawn as the row over the Northern Ireland Protocol poisons relations.
The Vice-Chancellor says failure to secure associate membership of Horizon Europe could do long term damage to UK universities.
After six years of fraught negotiations, it looks increasingly likely that UK researchers will lose access to European Union research funding because of Brexit.
One of Scotland’s top cancer experts is considering moving a major research project abroad amid political turmoil and warnings that a Brexit-linked impasse over EU funding will starve universities of talent.
Universities UK (UUK), a group of 140 universities which previously described the loss of Horizon membership as “political self-harm”.
The warning comes after a Glasgow-based, world-leading cancer expert said he was considering moving a major research project abroad because of a Brexit-linked impasse over EU funding.
Hermann Houser says Britain has no chance of being technologically independent after leaving the EU.
To do their jobs properly, scientists need stability. They need secure sources of funding. They need to be able to collaborate with other researchers across the globe, without unnecessary barriers. / But there’s a huge question mark hanging over the UK’s involvement in major scientific programmes like Horizon Europe.