UK scientists had been shut out of the multibillion-euro scheme amid drawn-out Brexit negotiations.
UK researchers are optimistic that they will soon regain access to the European Union’s flagship Horizon Europe funding programme, after the United Kingdom and the EU reached an agreement on the status of Northern Ireland after Brexit. For the past two years, UK participation in the €95.5-billion EU research programme has been in limbo as negotiations dragged on over the Northern Ireland Protocol, which concerns the flow of goods between the United Kingdom and the EU through the UK territory. Read more in Nature.