Horizon Europe

Lobbyists feared an end to programme – but budget and activities largely to continue in next multi-year EU budget

MEPs and research lobby groups say €100 billion is good but not enough. Parliament ‘will fight’ for €120 billion.

New and expanded research and innovation programmes are scattered throughout the EU’s new budget. Here’s a rundown.

Horizon Europe one of the few current EU budget lines to get increase in seven-year proposal

European Commission sets itself several complex tasks in the next research programme, such as bridging the ingrained east-west divide and growing bigger tech companies

Lobbyists mount last, urgent blitz ahead of Wednesday’s budget announcement

The new rules would enable researchers to access structural funds for projects when Framework programme R&D funding is not available

The European Commission is looking to build synergies between different sources of funding. A joint workshop of Science|Business and the European University Association came up with 6 ideas

Notes of an internal brainstorming session at European Commission hint at steps for choosing missions, ideas on who might run them, and the level of funding

Draft plans for the next EU research programme include lots of hot-button issues – from terrorism to healthcare inequality – that could attract broader political support