Australia’s top universities say Horizon association is ‘a strategic necessity’

25 Nov 2025 | News

New document outlines how Australia’s top universities miss out on EU funding, data and commercialisation opportunities

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Despite the EU being Australia’s largest foreign research funder, granting €1.8 billion between 2015 and 2024, the country has never been an associate member of Europe’s Framework Programmes for research and innovation. That could change if exploratory talks launched in September bear fruit.

The prize for Australia’s universities was spelled out in a Horizon Europe Capability Statement released on…