Is COVID-19 potentially affecting your Horizon 2020 project?

🗣 Robert Carroll, EFMC Senior Expert: The COVID-19 outbreak can definitely be considered a case of “force majeure” in the legal framework of H2020, in the meaning of the Grant…

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H2020 Consortium and Project Meetings cancelled

Use of Force Majeure Clause Covid-19 (coronavirus) has led to many Horizon 2020 projects, as project meetings and events being cancelled all around Europe. According to Article 51 of the…

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Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (H2020)

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, Horizon 2020 calls with original deadlines between now and 15th April will be extended. The precise new deadlines for each call and topic will be…

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Research cooperation with the UK

The UK has left the European Union but it is not the end. It has been cleared up that a close future partnership between EU and the UK is going…

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Globally competitive, green and digital Europe

A new Industrial Strategy package was published on the 10th of March by the European Commission. The new industrial strategy includes three key priorities: / Maintaining the global competitiveness of…

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Third countries’ participation in Horizon Europe?

According to the joint press conference held last week, third countries* willing to participate in the framework programme would be able to associate only to the entire programme ‘pillars’. Science…

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Disagreement on the EU Budget

The discussion of the new budget framework for the period from 2021 to 2027 created disputes between EU-countries. The UK was one of the biggest net contributors to the EU…

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