Horizon Europe successor will be ¡®self-standing¡¯ ¨C von der Leyen

Europe¡¯s main research funding scheme Horizon Europe is to remain ¡°self-standing¡±, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed.

Ending months of speculation that 바카라사이트 next research and innovation funding framework could be?subsumed into a larger scheme?on industrial competitiveness, von der Leyen used a speech to confirm that 바카라사이트 next seven-year funding scheme would?stay a standalone scheme.

¡°Our framework programme Horizon Europe will stay as a self-standing programme,¡± said von der Leyen on 20 May, explaining that it was an ¡°outstanding brand ¨C 바카라사이트 most renowned research programme worldwide¡± ¨C that had ¡°financed groundbreaking research that has won 33 Nobel Prizes over 바카라사이트 last 40 years¡±.

¡°We want this success story to continue,¡± she said.

The assurance follows concerns that 바카라사이트 next iteration of??¨C which funds 바카라사이트 European Research Council, 바카라사이트 ?2 billion a year blue sky research agency, and research into industrial competitiveness and grand challenges, as well as innovation ¨C could be merged into a funding scheme more closely aligned with increasing 바카라사이트 competitiveness of European businesses.

That would?have had potentially huge implications for 바카라사이트 funding of fundamental research across Europe, experts had warned. It could have seen fewer research programmes based on scientific excellence found in universities and?more initiatives?designed around increasing 바카라사이트 participation of small and medium-sized enterprises or supporting 바카라사이트 survival of major employers in Europe¡¯s existing industries such as steel, nuclear and car manufacturing.

Instead, 바카라사이트 next framework programme starting in 2028, known as Framework Programme 10, which will replace 바카라사이트 €95 billion (?80 billion) 2021-2027 scheme, will be ¡°tightly connected¡± to 바카라사이트 European Union¡¯s competitiveness fund while retaining its independence, said von der Leyen, who highlighted 바카라사이트 ¡°need [for] a seamless flow from fundamental research to applied research to start-ups to scale-up¡±.

Welcoming what it called ¡°this long-awaited and reassuring statement¡±, Kurt Deketelaere, secretary general of 바카라사이트 League of European Research Universities (Leru) commended 바카라사이트 decision, noting von der Leyen¡¯s apparent desire to keep 바카라사이트 Horizon Europe brand.

¡°This statement says nothing about 바카라사이트 budget and 바카라사이트 content of that next framework programme, nor about 바카라사이트 ¡®tight connection with 바카라사이트 European Competitiveness Fund¡¯. But let¡¯s be happy today,¡± said Deketelaere.

¡°This is a major statement by president von der Leyen, and Leru and 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 European research and innovation community are grateful to her to make an end to months of uncertainty about 바카라사이트 future European R&I policy,¡± he added, stating that his organisation would ¡°look forward to 바카라사이트 next steps now, and continue to offer our full support.¡±

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