Broken Horizon: UK medical research struggling with funding and collaborations gap after Brexit

One of the biggest effects of Brexit has been exclusion of the UK (including Northern Ireland) from the Horizon Europe funding, to which the country would have contributed approximately £2bn a year. It was initially on track to be admitted to the research framework as an associate country, which would have allowed UK researchers to apply for European Union funding such as European Research Council (ERC) grants. But when negotiations on the Northern Ireland Protocol stalled, the UK didn’t meet Horizon Europe’s requirements for association, and UK based ERC grant awardees were given just a few months to move to an EU country or to decline their funding.“It wasn’t a hard choice, because you can’t decide within two months to just move to Italy,” says Tamar Makin, programme leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. Under the UK government’s alternative solution, she and…
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