Number of research partnerships will be cut under the next EU budget, but survivors hope for substantial extra funding
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Hopes are rising that a lucky few EU research partnerships will be able to draw on substantial extra funding under the next EU budget. The rest face a struggle for survival as the Commission seeks to drastically cut their number.
Most optimistic of all are the Joint Undertakings, large research partnerships managed by industry, who can see the stars aligning for them in the plans for the new European Competitiveness Fund (ECF).
Traditionally, research partnerships have been funded mainly through Horizon Europe. This would change under the next long-term EU budget with the introduction of moonshot projects, jointly funded by Horizon Europe and the ECF.
The European Commission proposal says that the two programmes could finance a “coherent sequence between research and innovation, demonstration, development and deployment” for moonshot projects in areas that could…
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