With the United Kingdom ever more likely to leave the European Union's science-funding programmes, we look at the alternative.
UK science minister George Freeman resigned last week alongside other ministers, forcing Prime Minister Boris Johnson to step down on 7 July.After six years of fraught negotiations, it looks increasingly likely that UK researchers will lose access to European Union research funding because of Brexit.
With the writing now on the wall, UK-based scientists are looking for answers about what will replace the prestigious schemes that they could lose access to.Since the country voted to leave the EU in 2016, its scientists have worried about the potential loss of EU research funds, a crucial income stream. Horizon Europe, which will run until 2027, includes the prestigious European Research Council , which awards unrivalled fellowships for basic research.
The United Kingdom has now put pressure on the EC to make a deal. Last month, the then UK science minister George Freeman, who resigned last week during the effort to force Johnson to quit, said that he would give the commission until September to make a deal. Without one, the United Kingdom would enact an alternative research-funding mechanism, known as Plan B.Plan B is the UK government’s alternative to associating with Horizon Europe .
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