Britain and the EU said on Thursday they had struck a pact to allow British scientists back into the world s largest civilian science research programme after being frozen out in a post-Brexit row.
Rishi Sunak (pictured with EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen) has agreed a deal that would allow UK scientists to take part in the world s largest research collaboration programme .
Britain is rejoining the European Union's science-sharing program Horizon Europe, the two sides announced Thursday, more than two years after membership became a casualty of Brexit. British scientists expressed relief at the decision, the latest sign of thawing relations between the EU and its former member. After months of negotiations, the British government said the…
If patience rewards the good, then British researchers must be feeling pretty virtuous by now. It has taken seven – 7, count them – years to get from Brexit to a firm deal on the UK joining the EU’s flagship research programme. And now, following confirmation September 7th from both Brussels and London that a deal is agreed, UK researchers and entrepreneurs can gear up their formerly efficient machinery to garner EU grants directly from Brussels starting January 1.