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Funder group decries shifts in EU R&D policy

Science Europe says research programme now focuses too much on economic impact and global competition

A group of European research funding and performing organisations has criticised what it describes as a shift in policies underpinning the EU’s research and innovation funding programmes.

In its input to a European Commission consultation on the €95.5 billion 2021-27 Horizon Europe programme and its predecessor Horizon 2020, Science Europe decried perceived changes to “the main objective” of the programmes “since the preparation of Horizon 2020”.

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