European commission to scrap €1 billion research flagships
Three existing projects will continue but no funding will be available for new flagships
The European commission has said it will not launch any more FET flagships – massive €1 billion research projects designed to run over 10 years – under its next funding programme, Horizon Europe.
The decision comes in the middle of a selection process that would have decided the next two or three flagships, but now there is a question mark over whether any of the six shortlisted projects will be funded. The three existing flagships – graphene, the human brain project and quantum technologies, will continue.