UK scientists hope to benefit from €100bn Horizon Europe programme

The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, is thought to have hopes the Windsor framework could see the UK link up with Horizon Europe. Photograph: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters

Scientists in the UK have breathed a “sigh of relief” amid hopes that they will now benefit from the €100bn (£88.6bn) Horizon Europe programme after Rishi Sunak’s breakthrough deal with the EU over the post-Brexit Northern Ireland protocol.

For more than two years, researchers in the UK have received little, if any, funding from the flagship EU programme because of the tangle over Brexit trade deal negotiations.