We are halfway through the Horizon Europe framework programme period and slowly the game is on for the next framework programme – labelled FP10. Over the last months governments and stakeholder interest organisations have been releasing their position papers as they are called. In other words, ‘this is how we would like the future funding landscape to look like.’

This process naturally attracts a lot of attention, because the Framework Programme has reached a level importance and magnitude which means it receives prime attention from governments across the continent. Why? Because the level of external funding coming from EU can be of significant positive difference or any country’s research and innovation areas of strategic importance.

I invited one of my most dedicated contacts to this discussion, Science Journalist Thomas Brent from ScienceBusiness, into the virtual podcast studio for a talk about the status of what’s going on with the FP10 process and to take us all through what happens from now towards settling the new framework programme.

This episode gives you what many of you are craving right now: a view into what on earth is going on!

Time codes:

00:01:58 Introduction

00:09:02 Fly in on the Framework Programme

00:14:51 Insigths on FP10 process

00:25:09 Rundown on how FP10 is made

00:46:00 Indicative thematics

00:57:09 Current discussions on FP10

01:17:11 How to have your say

01:22:47 The toughest challenge

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