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In this week’s main R&D policy news:
The fight over the restructuration of Horizon Europe’s successor intensifies, with member states and lobbies increasing increase opposition against restructuring EU’s research programme. The fight to have a standalone FP10 has been also taken up by members of the European Parliament’s budgets committee.
Across the Atlantic, a clampdown on diversity-related projects at the US National Institutes of Health is causing uncertainty and fear among European grant recipients.
Back in Brussels, Martin Greenacre explains how the European Commission continues efforts to keep implementation of the European Research Area (ERA) going. But research lobbies say the thorniest issue remains: how to convince member states to spend 3% of their GDP on research and development, as the Commission concedes that voluntary action is “insufficient.”
Last but not least, EU research commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva’s has invited India to associate to Horizon Europe. While India decides how to respond to the invitation, the two sides have agreed to launch joint R&D calls worth €60 million.
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In funding news:
Goda Naujokaitytė takes a sneak peek into the Commission’s Clean Industrial Deal, which promises €600 million to “deployment-ready” clean technology projects.
In Germany, David Matthews learns about the Volkswagen Foundation’s “science fiction” funding scheme dedicated to ideas that are too radical for other funders. Meanwhile, the country’s academic exchange service is axing several international research schemes to compensate for rising operational costs.
Elsewhere, the European Innovation Council board is warning against consultants who demand co-ownership of intellectual property or claim to have insiders’ knowledge.
In this week’s Funding Radar, we have the latest collaborative projects with researchers from the UK.
In the Data Corner, we examine which countries get the largest share of proposals approved under Horizon Europe, and the most excellent proposals turned down. In Insider’s view, Leonie Klingberg follows Lisa Juliane Kahl, a postdoctoral researcher in biochemistry who decided to return to Europe after six years in the US.
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