Brexit

After intensive work over the summer, the sector will launch its transition programme tomorrow and present it to the government next week

Scientists should continue to apply for Horizon 2020 grants. Any projects that go on after the UK leaves the EU will be funded from national sources, the UK government says

Chief of staff to EU Commission president Martin Selmayr tweets to say “No” to suggestion of a post-Brexit deal with freedom of movement for scientists, but not the rest of the population

The new government must negotiate close links to EU R&D programmes, ensure researchers from EU countries can work in the UK and UK nationals can work in the EU - and make good the loss of funding

As evidence that UK researchers are being cut out of research consortia as a result of the Brexit vote mounts, a dedicated unit has been set up to collect specific examples of discrimination

There is no dossier, but anecdotal evidence that British researchers are being sidelined in putting together proposals for Horizon 2020 grants is growing

UK withdrawal from the EU will fundamentally change the basic scope of the Unitary Patent and the associated Unitary Patent Court. This could permanently jeopardise the launch of the European single patent

Uncertainty reigns in British science, not least because the UK gets more out in R&D funding than it contributes. Nicola Blackwood MP, chair of parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, has written to Chancellor George Osborne demanding answers

The top six universities in the UK are involved in Horizon 2020 projects worth almost €500M. Vice chancellors are anxiously seeking reassurances on current research and the question of access to future EU R&D programmes

UK industry experts played a leading role in hammering out new medical devices rules signed off the week before Brexit referendum. Now they fear they will be barred from the system