An agreement between the UK and EU on trading arrangements in Northern Ireland will allow the UK to take steps to realign with the continent’s research funding program Horizon Europe.
As soon as the Windsor Framework is implemented, EU president Ursula von der Leyen said work on the UK’s association to Horizon will start “immediately”.
The EU chief met UK prime minister Rishi Sunak in the UK on February 27 to agree a new Brexit deal on Northern Ireland. The agreement in principle will see new trading operations between the UK, Northern Ireland and mainland Europe.
Von der Leyen said that the deal was “good news for scientists and researchers in the EU and in the UK”.
