Stakeholders’ funding wish list includes a Horizon cluster for life sciences and a biotech take on Chips for Europe
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The EU will unveil a life sciences strategy in June, for which stakeholders are proposing a range of funding ideas to boost Europe's global role and unify its fragmented approach to the discipline.
The Stockholm Trio of universities, for example, calls on the EU to rearrange its funding for big collaborative research projects into four strategic challenge areas, one of which would cover all life sciences under a single heading.
“If we want to solve societal and global challenges, we need a more integrated approach,” said Dan Andree, senior adviser for the Stockholm Trio. “The life sciences should be much broader than health and also include biotech, food, agriculture and environment.”
If this cluster were to be created in the next EU research Framework Programme, FP10, the ballpark figure for a budget should be around €35 billion, Andree speculates. That’s if FP10 gets…
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