Recommendation 132

Horizon Europe is the EU’s €100 billion research and innovation programme that succeeds Horizon 2020 and runs from 2021 to 2027. The programme aims to strengthen European science and technology research, boost innovation capacity, competitiveness and jobs, and deliver on citizens’ priorities.310 Many in the science and research sectors, such as Wellcome, argued that the UK should associate to Horizon Europe following 305 European Commission, Horizon 2020 in full swing: Three years on (December 2017), p 27 306 European Commission, Horizon 2020 in full swing: Three years on (December 2017), p 28 307 Q136 308 Q178 309 Q192 310 Wellcome, Why the UK should associate to Horizon Europe (November 2019), p 4 Universities and Scotland 51 the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. This was because “EU Framework Programmes are the most ambitious multilateral funding schemes in the world, and participation is increasingly global”.311