MEPs push for a Horizon Europe deal next week

The European Parliament stepped up pressure for a preliminary deal on Horizon Europe, the European Union’s planned €94.1 billion research and innovation programme. A pair of MEPs handling the draft…

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Call for less red tape in Horizon Europe rebutted by EU official

University heads in central and eastern Europe who blame Horizon 2020’s excessive bureaucracy for making it harder to win grants got a sharp retort from a senior Commission official defending…

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New H2020 open-trainings for 2019!

EFMC is pleased to announce new locations for H2020 training courses in “Financial Management”, “Proposal Writing” and the Funding & Tenders Portal “SEDIA” (the new name of Participant Portal). Financial…

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What would a no-deal Brexit mean for universities and research?

UK universities continue to make clear to government that a Brexit ‘no deal’ scenario is highly undesirable.  However, there remains a risk that the Brexit negotiations could end without a…

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What would a successful Brexit look like?

Less than a month left. Officially, the UK is set to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019, though it’s looking increasingly likely that this timeline will be pushed…

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Negotiations began for European Union partners

While it is not new for Framework Programmes to include non-European participants, the first one being Israel in 1996, every new programme means for them the start of new negotiations…

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Brexit: “watching a car crash in slow motion”

“It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion and you can’t do anything to stop it.” This alarming sentence, reported by NBCNews from Jess Fitch, a U.K. citizen, sums…

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The broad themes of Horizon Europe (FP9) are now official

We now know the broad themes of the incoming Framework Programme Horizon Europe, and there will be 5 of them. The new €94.1 billion programme will focus on climate change,…

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New! H2020 Training Course in Italian, taking place in Rome

EFMC is happy to announce that we are organising an additional H2020 training in Italian. The event will take place in Rome on 14-15-16 May 2019. We recommend to take…

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