“Last week the European Commission announced a budget of €7 billion for research in 2012. This is the largest in the world bar the US National Institutes for Health and Nasa. This fund is part of the Seventh Framework Programme running from 2007 to 2014. Its successor, named Horizon 2020, has a proposed budget of €80 billion, the only major area for increase in the EC budget after 2014 …” (more)
[Conor O’Carroll, Irish Times, 28 July]