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How Europe’s €100-billion Science Fund fields; science and technology, environment, energy,
Will Shape 7 Years of Research education and culture. (Source: Economictimes)
Horizon Europe, the world’s largest multinational
research and innovation programme, has issued its
first call for grant applications. Over the next seven
years, the European Union’s giant research-spending
scheme will distribute a record €95.5 billion (US$116
billion) - including €5.4 billion from a COVID-19
recovery fund - to basic-science projects and
cross-border research collaborations to be carried
out by tens of thousands of researchers across
27 member states and more than a dozen other
countries. Horizon Europe is an evolution, rather
than a reinvention, of the EU’s previous research
programmes. Like its predecessor Horizon 2020,
which ran from 2014 to 2020, it is a mixed bag of
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funding schemes. It includes grants for individual
scientists in all fields, and for large multinational
collaborations covering grand societal challenges
such as health, climate change and the digital
revolution. But Horizon Europe also includes new UN Secretary-General Presents 10
elements that reflect increasing attention to open Priorities for 2021
science, equality, interdisciplinary research and The UN General Assembly held a plenary
practical applications. (Source: Nature) meeting on priorities for 2021. The UN
Secretary-General António Guterres told
India and Denmark Launched Green governments that after the “tragedy and
Strategic Partnership peril” of 2020, the SDGs are more important
Recently, India and Denmark launched green than ever to put the world on track in 2021.
strategic partnership, which not only create a He outlined ten urgent priorities for the
green and sustainable future, but will also boost year ahead. UN Secretary-General’s Ten
job creation, innovation and investments, the Priorities for 2021 are: Respond to COVID-19;
Danish ambassador to India said. The much-touted Start an inclusive and sustainable economic
partnership, which will enable Denmark in delivering recovery; Make peace with nature; Tackle
sustainable solutions to India, is in line with the poverty and inequality; Reverse the assault on
vision expressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi human rights; Gender equality, the greatest
and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen, who human rights challenge; Heal geopolitical
held a virtual summit on September 28, 2020. This rifts; Reverse the erosion of the nuclear
partnership will build on and consolidate the existing disarmament and non-proliferation regime;
agreement establishing a joint commission for Seize the opportunities of digital technologies
cooperation -signed on February 6, 2009 -between while protecting against their growing dangers;
India and Denmark that envisaged cooperation Launch a reset for the 21st century. (Source:
within the political, economic and commercial UN)

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