EU science programme will be hurt by Brexit but will survive
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Angeli Mehta2020-07-02T08:30:00
Network analysis suggests excellent science pillar of Horizon framework will be hardest hit
The EU’s research framework programmes have fostered deep collaboration across the institutions of member states and across scientific disciplines – so what happens to those networks when a member departs?
An analysis of the efficiency and robustness of the European research network formed through Horizon 2020 suggests it is mature enough to withstand Brexit. ‘We are not saying that the R&D network is not affected by Brexit, we just say that the network is robust enough that the collaborative structure is not dramatically changed,’ says Francisco Bauzá, at the institute for biocomputation and physics of complex systems at the University of Saragossa.