Latest UK grant winners must emigrate to take up European Research Council awards, despite Horizon Europe deal
11/04/2024
The UK joined the EU research programme on January 1st, but winners of prestigious ERC grants announced today must decide whether to decamp to the continent or settle for a UK backup.
The EU and UK are launching a joint push to get more British researchers to sign up to the £80bn Horizon science programme amid concerns about a drop-off in applications amid post-Brexit uncertainty.
Rothamsted Research is having to pause ‘non-essential’ work, according to a letter from its director.
Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 9
17/11/2023
Your weekly update from the Brexit ‘downside bunker’, chronicling the downsides, and occasional upsides, of Brexit.
Roadshows, seed funds, and high-level visits are planned to get EU and UK partners collaborating once again. But UK universities also want an explicit guarantee the country will join the successor programme, FP10.
Staff from across the university gathered to celebrate an agreement for the UK to rejoin the Horizon and Copernicus programmes.
Horizon: UK on brink of rejoining EU’s £84bn scientific research scheme after Brexit departure
09/08/2023
Universities have seen research funds plummet since Britain left Horizon, which offers huge grants to science projects tackling big issues like climate change.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has said the government must not delay in reaching a deal to re-join the EU's research and innovation programme. / Horizon Europe was set up to help sponsor projects across Europe.
Britain is still missing out on millions by not joining Horizon – and New Zealand has stolen a march on us
13/07/2023
A Kiwi scientist is urging the UK to re-enter the research programme as Rishi Sunak dithers.
Scotland’s First Minister has urged Rishi Sunak to secure a deal to join a top European research programme as an agreement inches closer.
Britain has been locked out of the £81 billion scheme since Brexit – amid warnings it will damage competitiveness.
Britain and the European Union (EU) are edging closer to a deal on the UK’s re-entry into the Horizon Europe research programme. Sources said negotiators have produced a draft document following months of talks, with Rishi Sunak expected to consider it in the coming days.
From NHS staff shortages to export woes, the effects of the 2016 vote are still being felt.
EU and UK businesses will face ‘inevitable’ extra costs while the post-Brexit trade deal remains in place, European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič warned on Monday (12 June), playing down the prospect of a major overhaul of the agreement.
Senior pro-vice-chancellor Andy Neely has said the University’s lost association with an EU science research programme is having negative impacts.
The need for the UK to join a €95bn EU science research programme is a top priority for Cambridge University, the BBC has been told.
The United Kingdom’s alternative to EU Horizon Europe funding is near-silent on maintaining the collaborations needed to meet crucial global goals on climate and sustainability.
Sir Paul Nurse said being part of the EU’s science research programme is ‘crucial’ for the success of the UK’s science sector.
The men behind Trussonomics and Brexit, the two great man-made catastrophes of recent years, are to be honoured for their ‘great work’.
Experts insist successes of Brussels’ €95bn programme could never be replicated by a UK-only substitute.
Nobel laureate says prime minister may not have “had the best advice” on EU programme. / Paul Nurse has said that the government’s alternative plans to joining the EU’s Horizon Europe R&D programme will be “utterly inadequate”.
Brexit limbo continues for UK researchers, as the government issues a ten-point strategy for the future of science that fails to commit to association to the EU research programme.
Scientists were hopeful the new Northern Ireland Protocol deal could pave the way for Britain to access the research programme.
PM Rishi Sunak should not go back on his pledge to re-join the EU's science research programme, the President of The Royal Society has warned.
The UK’s R&D sector has reacted with alarm to reports that Rishi Sunak is holding back on rejoining the Horizon Europe R&D programme—after finally agreeing a deal over trade in Northern Ireland with the EU.