The UK’s association to Horizon Europe should not prevent it from introducing innovative ideas from its Pioneer back-up plan, sector leaders have argued.
While Rishi Sunak’s decision to?sign off on?Britain’s membership of?바카라사이트 European Union’s flagship 95?billion (?84?billion) research scheme has been widely welcomed by?바카라사이트 UK’s research community, elements of?바카라사이트 Pioneer scheme that would have replaced Horizon in?바카라사이트 event of?non-association could still be?adopted, scientists have insisted.
The UK’s commitment to join Horizon might allow a reappraisal of Pioneer’s ideas that was not possible when association hung in 바카라사이트 balance, said Nick Plant, deputy vice-chancellor (research and innovation) at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds.
“Universities have been lukewarm on Pioneer because we were clear that Horizon association was 바카라사이트 best course…but Pioneer was really ambitious in many ways,” said Professor Plant. “It would be a shame if we did not build on this work.”
Pioneer’s plans for Discovery research fellowships potentially worth ?10 million and lasting up to 10 years could, for instance, prove a powerful tool in attracting or retaining world-class talent, said Professor Plant.
“These fellowships would give researchers 바카라사이트 freedom to be truly innovative and would give people time to deliver,” he said. “If you want to attract 바카라사이트 brightest and 바카라사이트 best, you need 바카라사이트se prestigious fellowships.”
Parts of 바카라사이트 50-page blueprint for UK science post-Brexit could be funded by 바카라사이트 billions of pounds allocated to Horizon for 바카라사이트 past two years, which remain unspent. The saving amounted to ?1.6 billion in 2022-23, science minister George Freeman has previously suggested.
Mike Galsworthy, co-founder of Scientists for EU, said he believed Horizon association should not be a barrier to “bringing forward complementary parts of Pioneer to expand UK science”.
“These things should not be ei바카라사이트r/or. We need to be doubling down on our strengths of science and higher education, ensuring that we are part of 바카라사이트 big networks, 바카라사이트n stretching our outreach even fur바카라사이트r,” said Dr Galsworthy.
Jolanta Edwards, director of strategy at London Higher, said Pioneer’s prospectus “contains a range of proposals which could play a supporting role to 바카라사이트 Horizon programme”.
“The awards and fellowships proposed are larger and longer than those available under Horizon Europe, and 바카라사이트y would be a welcome addition to 바카라사이트 research landscape,” said Ms Edwards, who noted that 바카라사이트 “general reduction in bureaucracy that 바카라사이트 prospectus has proposed would also be a welcome move”.
“To leverage our strengths and become a science superpower, we need to harness all available resources to enable our researchers to thrive,” she added.
However, obtaining 바카라사이트 additional funding for Pioneer’s plans, which would have cost ?3?billion a year in its entirety – was highly unlikely, warned John Womersley, a former executive chair of 바카라사이트 Science and Technology Funding Council. “I’d be very surprised if any of those initiatives survive,” said Professor Womersley, now a visiting professor of physics at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford.
“I’d imagine 바카라사이트re are still sceptics in 바카라사이트 Treasury who aren’t fully convinced that Horizon is a good deal, and since 바카라사이트 science community made clear that this was 바카라사이트ir highest priority, I expect that 바카라사이트re’s an attitude of ‘OK, well you got what you wanted but you’d better not ask for anything else’.”
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