Rishi Sunal has given the first and symbolic “reversal” of Brexit with the return to EU Horizon programbefore the demands of the scientists and the British universities by the lack of bottoms for investigation.
“We have worked with the EU to get the deal right for the UK,” the minister said on Thursday. premierat the time of making public the expected announcement, with which it had been speculating for months.
“We are going to make sure that we open up unparalleled opportunities for research and that it will be a suitable deal for british taxpayersSunak stressed.
The agreement supposes in fact the return of the United Kingdom to the flagship program of scientific collaboration of the EU. British scientists will again be able to apply for grants from a fund of almost 100,000 million euros for research, after the difficulties experienced with the consummation of Brexit that forced the closure of departments and programs at universities due to funding problems.
The agreement was sealed on Wednesday night by Rishi Sunak and the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. The pact signed with Brussels also includes the UK return to EU Copernicus satellite observing programvital for monitoring climate change.