Ukrainian refugee-scientists can continue their research in neighbouring European countries. The European Commission has set aside 25 million euros for them in the research program Horizon Europe.

That is what the Commission announced yesterday. The 25 million euros is part of an innovation program that already costs eight billion euros per year and will receive an extra 562 million euros in the next two years.

‘It is of great importance to help refugees, and in this case researchers,’ says vice president Margrethe Vestager. ‘With this new programme they will be able to continue their research, so that science may win from war.’

Building up

With this subsidy, researchers can continue their work at academic, but also at non-academic organisations in European countries or countries that are associated with the Horizon Europe programme. The goal is to enable them, whenever possible again, to rebuild the research and innovation capacity of Ukraine.

Legal entities in Russia, Belarus or occupied parts of Ukraine can explicitly not make a claim on the budget of Horizon Europe, exceptions excluded.