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The United Kingdom’s share of European Union research funding has fallen by 28 percent since 2015, before voters in Britain approved a referendum to exit the E.U., according to a newly published analysis of the impact of Brexit uncertainty on British science from the Royal Society, a leading scientific group.
The analysis found a 39 percent reduction in U.K. applications for the E.U.’s Horizon 2020 grants and a 35 percent reduction in the number of scientists coming to Britain through the E.U.'s prestigious Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship program.
“We have seen a dramatic drop in the number of leading researchers who want to come to the U.K.,” Venki Ramakrishnan, the president of the Royal Society, said in a statement. “U.K. science has also missed out on around 0.5 billion euros [about $641 million] a year because of the uncertainty around Brexit. The potential paralysis of a no-deal Brexit and the current state of chaos are hurting U.K. science and that is hurting the national interest.”
