We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3 rd parties based on our understanding. UK scientists have fought to retain membership of the project - but which an agreement to include them in the Trade and Cooperation Deal TCA was reached in December, it now appears associate membership of Horizon Europe has not yet been rubber-stamped. Sir Bill, the Tory MP for Stone in Staffordshire, said: It s been the best part of a year and British research institutions remain frozen out of key projects and funding despite agreement on participation. With each passing day the opportunities are missed, British institutions are left high and dry while science marches on without them and the returns on our financial contribution edge lower. Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen are at loggerheads over Northern Ireland.
He warned: This needs to be addressed swiftly, so we re calling on the government to lay out the steps it is taking to ensure UK participation is formalised. Mariya Gabriel, the European Union Commissioner for Innovation and Research, said last week that the UK would not be able to join the programme until the question of Northern Ireland was resolved.
I think that it is important on our side to advance our opinion to advance on association, but only after the framework is agreed by both sides.