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Poor science - Research left with massive funding gap
The Guardian Weekly
|February 17, 2023
The government’s new science minister has said the UK is “more than ready to go it alone” if there is no resolution to the stalemate over taking part in the EU’s flagship research programme.
Brussels has so far blocked Britain’s requests to join the €100bn ( $107bn) Horizon Europe programme because of a dispute over the Northern Ireland protocol, leading UK ministers to draw up contingency plans for collaborations outside the bloc.
Michelle Donelan, the secretary of state for the newly created Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, said she was prepared to push ahead with an alliance with the US, Switzerland and Japan.
Uncertainty over funding has driven some UK scientists to relocate to countries where they still qualify for Horizon Europe grants.
Meanwhile, institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge have had a
This story is from the February 17, 2023 edition of The Guardian Weekly.
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