Requests to withdraw from less lucrative areas of Europe’s research scheme will delay UK membership and cost universities billions of pounds, warn science policy experts
Westminster government provides £30 million for ‘talent and stabilisation fund’ and pumps extra £100 million of quality-related support into English universities
Whitehall advisor who devised alternative Horizon programme says stablisation funds should be released immediately while talks over UK membership continue
Stabilisation funding, fellowships and industry collaboration grants identified as key priorities, but questions about whether country can successfully replicate Brussels schemes remain
‘Deeply problematic’ deadlock over Britain’s membership of European research scheme cannot continue, warns science minister ahead of ‘last round of talks’
Uncertainty around UK’s future in EU research, plus shortage of domestic funding beyond Oxbridge, drove ERC grant holder to swap Southampton for Bergen
Science minister George Freeman claims academics may warm to leaving EU research scheme if homegrown alternative offers attractive global opportunities
Universities across Europe to launch ‘Stick to Science’ campaign warning against ‘politicisation’, as football-style ‘transfer market’ emerges to tempt away UK-based researchers
UK scientists may increasingly want to take the £7 billion for research offered by Treasury rather than wait for EU wrangling to finish, say research experts