Increasing interchange in European research
Research in Europe is becoming more networked by the Horizon 2020 and Erasmus programmes.
NEW RESEARCH HORIZONS. From 2020 onwards, Horizon 2020 will bring together all the research and innovation funding programmes of the European Commission. The new framework programme will also include the extensive funding programme of the European Research Council (ERC) that ranges from Starting Grants for Junior Researchers to Synergy Grants for Research Groups. Horizon 2020 is also intended to support European research centres committed to international exchange. Here the EU has already funded such disparate projects as the Alfred Wegener Institute’s research ice breaker Polarstern and the DESY particle accelerator in Hamburg. Researcher mobility will be promoted by Marie Curie Actions aimed at a European labour market in research. European research is also continuing to build networks outside the Horizons 2020 framework. Erasmus, the EU programme for student mobility that has now been successfully running for 25 years, registered a new record in the 2011/2012 academic year: more than 33,000 students from Germany completed part of their course or a practical placement in 32 different European countries under the auspices of the Erasmus programme.
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