United Kingdom: A Horizon Europe campaign has been launched by the UK in Italy and Spain to encourage collaboration between institutions and researchers.
Horizon Europe is the world’s largest research association program worth £80 billion. Following a custom-made agreement secured last year, the UK will be able to work with associates from more than 40 countries, including Italy and Spain, on the biggest challenges such as climate change and healthcare.
The PR campaign will pave the way to new accessible opportunities for the UK’s best-in-class expertise in space and life sciences from the UK’s world-leading researchers and their Italian and Spanish colleagues.
Italy and Spain are integral partners of the United Kingdom with CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, the Square Kilometer Array Observatory and a multi-billion-pound international project to make the world’s largest radio telescope.
As part of the European AIDS Vaccine Initiative, financed by Horizon’s predecessor, scientists from the UK, Italy and Spain functioned jointly to bring HIV-AIDS vaccines to the clinical trial stage. The campaign seeks to promote new collaborations between Italy, Spain and their UK counterparts through strong links, and advertising across print, podcasts and digital platforms including LinkedIn.
Michelle Donelan, the UK Science and Technology Secretary, said that, “We are determined to encourage trailblazing thinkers and researchers in Italy and Spain to partner with UK colleagues through the Horizon Europe programme, on projects that could transform health, energy and more. As Italy and Spain were among the UK’s top partners in Horizon’s predecessor programme, we can build on our strong history to maximise the potential of Horizon Europe for all our scientists.”
Andrew Griffith, the UK Science Minister stated that, “From Italian talent in space and physics, to Spanish prowess in renewable energy, our southern European neighbours are research powerhouses in their own right. But working together through Horizon Europe gives us the chance to achieve even more – and the UK’s brightest and best stand ready, to do exactly that. This campaign is all about spreading that message; our doors are open, and the possibilities that working together might deliver, are limitless.”
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