The six month Danish EU presidency, which started on the 1st January, will aim to ensure more simplicity and flexibility in Horizon 2020, which will replace Framework Programme 7 in 2014: Horizon 2020 aims to promote European research and technological…
Horizon 2020 Webpages Launched
The European Commission has launched a new set of webpages on Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation which will replace the Seventh Framework programme and shall run from 2014 to 2020. Horizon 2020 will: Strengthen the…
Social Sciences and Humanities to Play a Central Role in the next EU Research Programme
In a keynote speech at the British Academy on the 10th November, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, addressed the growing concerns about the role of the humanities and social sciences in the new European research…
UKRO Summarises Horizon 2020 Workshops
The UK Research Office has recently published a series of summaries of consultation workshops on the EC’s next Framework Programme, called Horizon 2020. These workshops are part of the EC’s initial preparations for its proposals on the funding programme, which…
New UKRO Advisor for the University
UKRO recently contacted us to let us know that Chloë Somers, the new UKRO European Advisor for East Midlands universities, will be joining the office on 5th September. Chloë takes over from Amy Williams who left earlier this year. UKRO continue…
UKRO on the future of Marie Curie Fellowships in Horizon 2020
UKRO (UK Research Office) recently attended a workshop in Brussels on the future of the Marie Curie Actions within the new Horizon 2020 programme (effectively FP8, plus CIP and EIT). Their report is useful reading for anyone with an interest…