Horizon 2020 Projects

A major university in India has joined the EU’s NAMASTE scheme. The project aims to boost bilateral co-operation in education and research between the EU and the world’s largest democracy.

The European Research Council will fund a PET scanner at the Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, to investigate brain cancer. The project will receive €1.65m.

The Joint Research Council and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology have agreed to expand their scientific co-operation to ten new areas.

Switzerland has agreed to take part in Horizon 2020. The National Council made the decision, which has been supported by the country’s opposition party, the Free Democratic Party.

Norway has announced its formal participation in Horizon 2020. Oslo said it wants to be a ‘full member’ of the EU’s replacement for FP7.

A consortium of Irish universities led by University College Dublin is developing links with Brazil to promote Ireland’s scientific and technological co-operation during Horizon 2020.

The Global Research Council has adopted an action plan towards open access to publications and research integrity. The strategy was agreed after a three-day meeting in Berlin, Germany.

The Commission and CERN have agreed to support the construction of SESAME which will allow Middle East researchers to investigate the advanced materials, biological processes and cultural artefacts.

Europe has arguably some of the best research infrastructures in the world. However, extra investment through financial schemes, such as Horizon 2020, is required in order to stay competitive.

Dr Michael Galsworthy comments on how Commission policy could negatively affect Eastern Europe’s participation in H2020 and the importance of sealing Europe’s brain drain to the rest of the world.

Gibraltarian Professor Daniella Tilbury at the University of Gloucester is set to help develop universities in Morocco as part of Horizon 2020.

Switzerland is expected to continue its participation in Horizon 2020 following the meeting of the Committee for Science, Education and Culture of the National Council in the Federal Assembly.

Kosovo will be allowed to participate in EU research programmes, including Horizon 2020, Galileo and GMES, following the signing of a reconciliation accord with Serbia.

The South African Minister for Science and Technology, Derek Hanekom, has held talks with the European Commission encouraging closer co-operation in science, technology and innovation.

Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has held a meeting with the Argentine Minister for Science, Technology and Innovative Production, Dr Lino Barañao, encouraging the state to participate in Horizon 2020.

Pakistan’s science minister and chairman of the country’s Science Foundation have called on researchers to better understand the needs of the science community and to look to Horizon 2020 for funding.

The Strategic International Research and Innovation Cooperation group has been discussing its plans for Horizon 2020 with an increase in global collaboration high on the organisation’s agenda.

A change in Irish law could see the removal of restrictions banning overseas spending of research funding, opening the way for partnerships between northern and southern Ireland for the first time.

The Italian Ambassador to the United States is encouraging American-based professors to form links with his home country to help benefit from the EU’s next research and innovation funding programme.

Montenegro has outlined its ambitions under Horizon 2020 following significant success under the Seventh Framework Programme. Minister of Science Sanja Vlahovic explains her country’s future ambitions.

Professor Leonid Bobylev of the Nansen Center, St Petersburg, provides his thoughts on EU-Russia co-operation under the Seventh Framework Programme and its successor, Horizon 2020.

Sir Peter Gluckman, the chief science adviser to the prime minister of New Zealand, has congratulated the European Union in helping to bring greater global collaboration to the scientific community.

Key ideas on increasing international research collaboration in Horizon 2020 have been developed by EU’s diplomatic corps at a meeting that included European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.