The next EU research Framework Programme will provide adequate funding for the social sciences and humanities, research commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has said. “Let me assure you that future funding at the European level will provide significant space for social sciences and humanities research,” she said on 10 November. In an open letter sent on 28 October, the European Alliance for the Social Sciences and Humanities requested that Horizon 2020 include €5 billion for social and humanities research, which will have received €623 million by the end Framework 7.