Florin Zubașcu

Official work programmes are not due until April, but drafts circulating online give researchers and industry chance to start formulating grant applications

The documents give researchers detailed clues to what kind of projects will be funded in the €95.5B programme

An event on 2 February will mark the end of the lengthy negotiations and preparations for the next research programme. But with significant elements still to be settled, the funds won’t be flowing for a while

“We are preparing the post-COVID world. A place where generations meet, life is affordable, the planet is protected and style matches with sustainability,” says Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, launching first phase of the New European Bauhaus

The European Commission wants to green the research agenda and have the new programme running by June, to launch the first joint calls with Horizon Europe

Centre will play a key role in coordinating research and supporting an EU-wide ‘cybersecurity shield’

MEPs say the new budget signals a shifting of priorities away from agriculture and cohesion and towards research and innovation

EU4Health aims to boost innovation in the health sector, help member states ditch paper records and make digitised health systems interoperable

The money will make the EU third biggest investor in defence research in Europe and give it firepower to reduce the longstanding reliance on US military technology

Shift to using regional funds for near-market research will undermine fundamental research in countries with small national R&D budgets. The European Commission is ‘misjudging the needs of less developed regions’