UK government outlines Horizon alternative, as negotiations drag on

Scientific organisations have renewed calls for the UK government to agree terms that will allow the country’s scientists to participate in major European research programmes. The calls come in response to the government publishing its Pioneer prospectus – a proposed plan for a domestic research funding programme that will come into place if the UK and EU fail to reach an agreement over association to the EU’s €95.5 billion (£85 billion) Horizon Europe framework.