As Europe prepares to negotiate Horizon 2020’s successor, *Research Professional founder William Cullerne Bown warns of the threats faced by Framework 9.
The title of this talk—Business as usual? Framework 9 and the future of the West-—may seem ambitious, scaremongering even. Do we really have to talk in such epochal terms? Well, Donald Trump is president of the United States. The UK is leaving the EU. There is a general turbulence in the West and the Framework programme neither can nor should be immune to it.
Three threats