Autonomous vehicles survey

[Grahamm]

Let's look a little further into who this group is:

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

Hmm.

In 2011 the EU Heads of State and Government called on the European Commission to bring together all of the previous EU's research and innovation funding under a single common strategic framework. The Commission launched a wide-ranging consultation involving all key stakeholders which has led to Horizon 2020.

The European Commission has compiled all the feedback from stakeholders, and has taken into account recommendations from the European Parliament, as well as lessons learned from previous programmes. The message was clear – make Horizon 2020 simpler for users – and it is!

So fazersharp seems to think funding research and innovation and bringing it together under one roof where efforts can be concentrated, rather than being scattered piecemeal all over Europe is a bad idea.

Nice try...

PS Oh and, of course, because we're *leaving*, we're no longer going to be able to participate or beneift from this scheme.

Professor Brian Cox has a few things to say about that...

We spent many years presenting the U.K. as the best place in the world to do science. Science is one of the fundamental foundations of our economy. These figures demonstrate what happens when a country trashes its international reputation. Hard to build, easy to destroy.

And so do the Royal Society:

- UK’s annual share of EU research funding has fallen by half a billion Euros since 2015
- Almost a 40% drop in UK applications to Horizon 2020
- 35% fewer scientists coming to the UK through key schemes

https://royalsociety.org/news/2019/10/br...k-science/