Government publishes position paper on future EU funding for research and innovation
Funding for EU research and innovation from 2014: a UK perspective’ published today looks at the future role and shape of EU funding for research and innovation and sets out the following recommendations from the Government
- Research and innovation must play an increasingly vital role in promoting green growth in Europe and should continue to receive a high – and ideally increased – proportion of a future EU budget which is reprioritised to focus on sustainable growth and is smaller overall
- The UK considers that future EU funding should be focussed on funding research programmes that demonstrate excellence and added-value
- EU funding should address global challenges as well as developing new technologies.