Researchers in the United Kingdom breathed a cautious sigh of relief yesterday after the government struck a deal with the European Union to fix post-Brexit disputes over issues including trade across Northern Ireland’s border.
the government had moved back to the treasury about £1.6 billion that had been earmarked for associating with Horizon Europe and Euratom, a European-wide nuclear power program. Researchers feared that “surrendering” the funds meant the money would no longer go to research.“after years of uncertainty,” says Martin Smith, head of the policy lab at the Wellcome Trust, a private U.K. research funder.
Before talks on joining Horizon Europe can resume, however, the U.K. Parliament will need to approve the Windsor Framework. Further hurdles will follow. “We believe it is likely that, given the delays that have already occurred, there will be significant further negotiation of the practicalities needed before association can be confirmed,” Jim McDonald, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said in a statement to the U.K. Science Media Centre .
Even if a deal is reached, researchers say some of the damage will be hard to undo. “The U.K. dropping out of these collaborative schemes did harm to our standing and some of that harm will be irreversible,” John Hardy, chair of the molecular biology of neurological disease at University College London, told SMC. “Grants will have been written without us and we will now have to try and rejoin these networks, some of which we once led, as supplicants.
“We should not be naïve about this: it will take many years to rebuild fully the ties that have been cut,” Jan Palmowski, secretary-general of the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, said in an email todoi: 10.1126/science.adh3885
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