Jesus lads, 'tis looking like BREXIT!

[Meridian]

The Mrs friend is

Pardon my ignorance but what is a Horizon project exactly and why are they good ?

It was free for the UK.
Now appearantly it is costing them € 2Bn to get involved with it again.

 

[Browser Brody]

It was free for the UK.
Now appearantly it is costing them € 2Bn to get involved with it again.

And what is it ?

 

[jeepers]

The Mrs friend is

Pardon my ignorance but what is a Horizon project exactly and why are they good ?

Horizon Europe is the main EU research fund. It's enormous and the UK used to win loads of funding for its universities because they're prestigious, English-speaking, and good. In that order.

 

[How bad boy]

It was free for the UK.
Now appearantly it is costing them € 2Bn to get involved with it again.

It wasn't free.

It's also not only an EU organisation, NZ are a member, for example.

Exiting membership has done enormous damage to UK science, through the value of research, cutting cross border collaboration and has resulted in huge numbers of EU research postgrads leaving the UK (the LSE say numbers halved...), going to take a while to repair it

 

[jams]

UK science always got more out of the EU science pot than the UK government put in (but the UK government always put money in - so it wasn't totally free money).

They won't now I'd imagine.

 

[jams]

It wasn't free.

It's also not only an EU organisation, NZ are a member, for example.

Exiting membership has done enormous damage to UK science, through the value of research, cutting cross border collaboration and has resulted in huge numbers of EU research postgrads leaving the UK (the LSE say numbers halved...), going to take a while to repair it

Its the Post docs leaving is the real problem in a few years time (and even in Horizon they'll still need expensive visas to work).

They might hit a pipeline issue for the mid-ranked universities in a few years.

 

[How bad boy]

For the day that's in it, and following the debacle of the UKCA certification nonsense, the new iPhone 15 (to be announced today) is supposedly going to get a USB-C port.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1701595163158876483

 

[Handy Run]

Perfectly normal in a democracy

 

[jams]

telegraph don't like BoJo so much anymore.

whassallthatabout

 

[Meridian]

The EU have other considerations now :

Labour would struggle to get better UK/EU deal - report

A new report has cast doubt on the ability of a new Labour government in Britain to negotiate closer trading arrangements with the EU.

www.rte.ie