Key ideas in major government-commissioned report on post-Brexit research funding indicate potential options
As political disputes threaten to lock UK researchers out of Horizon Europe, thoughts have once again turned to plans for alternative, home-grown programmes.
Science minister George Freeman has already hinted at possible alternatives, writing on Twitter last month that the UK has a “bold Plan B” if disputes over Northern Ireland stop the UK associating to the EU’s €95.5 billion (£80.5bn) research and innovation programme.