Major European education groups have come together to announce a new campaign, #Stick2Science, calling for an “open and collaborative research and innovation landscape”.

Turkey has been given the green light to join Europe’s largest research and development program, Horizon Europe, the ESC and Erasmus+.

The president of Universities UK has written a letter to Boris Johnson urging him to prevent reported cuts for science and research funding. 

The EU’s new coronavirus recovery plan fail to secure and strengthen Europe as a research location, according to science organisations DAAD, DFG and HRK. 

The UK should seek full association to the Horizon Europe research program and commit £1 billion research funding per year following Brexit, the Russell Group has urged.

A shake-up of visa regulations to attract more top scientists is on the cards for the UK, with the PM announcing he has instructed the Home Office and BEIS to work on a fast-track visa route to be launched later this year.

Full association to the next EU framework program should be "plan A" and preventing barriers to mobility for staff and students a priority, the EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee of the House of Lords has heard in an evidence session.

The UK’s continued participation in the recently-christened successor to Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, is not to be taken for granted, according to a policy briefing by the Centre for Global Higher Education.