UK to return to EU’s flagship Horizon science research programme
by Lisa O'Carroll, Kiran Stacey and Ian Sample from Science | The Guardian on (#6EGNA)
Post-Brexit return to 85bn scheme discussed this week, say sources, and is set to be announced on Thursday
Britain is to rejoin the EU's flagship 85bn science research programme, Horizon Europe, in a long-anticipated deal welcomed by scientists.
Britain's membership of Horizon, which funds research projects tackling crucial issues from the climate crisis to terminal diseases and improving food and energy security, was agreed as part of the post-Brexit trade deal in 2020. But it was never ratified in a tit-for-tat row between the EU and the UK over Northern Ireland Brexit arrangements.
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