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UK guarantees EU funding beyond leaving the EU

UK guarantees EU funding beyond leaving the EU

Chancellor Philip Hammond guarantees EU funding beyond date UK leaves the EU. British businesses and universities will have certainty over future funding and should continue to bid for competitive EU funds while the UK remains a member of the EU.

E-mails show how UK physicists were dumped over Brexit

E-mails show how UK physicists were dumped over Brexit

Researchers dropped from EU grant proposal because UK inclusion would ‘compromise’ project.

Lessons from Brexit

Lessons from Brexit

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union is jeopardizing scientists’ funds, collaborations, staff and students; it has left the nation reeling and Europe vulnerable.

Royal Society head calls for 'underwriting' of research

Royal Society head calls for 'underwriting' of research

The president of the Royal Society has called for the UK government to underwrite the research of all UK-based researchers who apply for EU funding now.

Johnson falls flat at ESOF 16

Johnson falls flat at ESOF 16

UK science minister Jo Johnson was poorly received in Manchester, after a low-key speech that several attendees said contrasted sharply with a rather inspirational post-Brexit address from EU research commissioner Carlos Moedas.

Petition: We require any BRexit deal preserves UK access to EU collaborative R&D programs

Petition: We require any BRexit deal preserves UK access to EU collaborative R&D programs

UK access to EU R&D programmes stimulates £billions of investment and gives the UK access to skills and technologies that it does not have. Ending our access to these programmes will weaken our economy which depends on exploitation of innovative science and technology.

Erasmus scheme may exclude British students after Brexit

Erasmus scheme may exclude British students after Brexit

Head of exchange programme between European universities says its future cannot be guaranted beyond 2017

Brexit watch: UK researchers scramble to save science

Brexit watch: UK researchers scramble to save science

Uncertainty reigns as the UK struggles with how to sever its relationship with the EU.

Academies publish joint statement on research & innovation after the EU referendum

Academies publish joint statement on research & innovation after the EU referendum

The Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society, the Learned Society of Wales, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy have published a statement on research and innovation after the EU Referendum.

Why Brexit may be a deadly experiment for science

Why Brexit may be a deadly experiment for science

EU funding was a vital lifeline for our world-leading scientific research sector. That, and so much more, has now been blown away

Science's status shifts in new Brexit government

Science's status shifts in new Brexit government

Reshuffled UK administration signals change for research and science policy.

UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears

UK scientists dropped from EU projects because of post-Brexit funding fears

Doubts over the UK’s ability to win future project grants mean some EU partners are avoiding working with British researchers.

Q&A: Former E.U. science adviser Anne Glover on U.K. research after Brexit: 'I'm very pessimistic'

Q&A: Former E.U. science adviser Anne Glover on U.K. research after Brexit: 'I'm very pessimistic'

The Brexit referendum was not fought on evidence but on prejudice around immigration, Glover says.

What’s next? 5 Brexit lessons for European research

What’s next? 5 Brexit lessons for European research

Focus on bridge-building, open the science cloud, clarify the rules – these are among the steps that the EU should now take to turn the UK’s departure from disaster to opportunity.

Brexit would open a can of worms for research policy in Europe

Brexit would open a can of worms for research policy in Europe

Even the best-case scenario for a UK withdrawal from the EU would be hugely disruptive, both domestically and across the continent, says Peter Fisch.

Universities UK statement on the outcome of the EU referendum

Universities UK statement on the outcome of the EU referendum

​ Dame Julia Goodfellow, President of Universities UK said: 'Leaving the EU will create significant challenges for universities. Although this is not an outcome that we wished or campaigned for, we respect the decision of the UK electorate.'

Brexit: Turning point

Brexit: Turning point

The result of next week’s crucial UK referendum on whether or not to remain in the European Union will have worldwide repercussions.

Boon or burden: what has the EU ever done for science?

Boon or burden: what has the EU ever done for science?

More than 500 million people and 28 nations make up the European Union. It will lose one of its richest, most populous members, if the United Kingdom votes to leave on 23 June. Ahead of a possible ‘Brexit’, Nature examines five core ways that the EU shapes the course of research.

Government slammed for losing track of its own research

Government slammed for losing track of its own research

Government can't say how many policy studies it paid for or published, report reveals.