The U.K. government is giving researchers options to secure or replace grants expected from the Horizon Europe program.
Brexit withdrawal agreement
“Plan B” mechanisms would include replacements for Horizon grants to individual researchers, as well as ways to help U.K. researchers participate in international collaborations. The policy also encourages U.K. researchers to continue to apply for Horizon funding, despite the impasse, by guaranteeing replacement funds if a Horizon “association” deal still has not been finalized by the time the grant kicks off.
The announcement helps alleviate fears that U.K. money earmarked for Horizon might be shunted away from science if a final deal is not reached, says James Wilsdon, a science policy researcher at the University of Sheffield. Although the outline does not detail how much funding will be allocated to each of Plan B’s mechanisms, it does signal that the government is sticking to its commitment to use Horizon funding on domestic research funding, he says.
More details about how the schemes will be funded, and by how much, are expected later this year, if the government decides to give up on a Horizon deal, Wilsdon says. Details on domestic replacements for Copernicus—the EU Earth observation program—and the European Atomic Energy Community are still being worked out.
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