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Dear All
Some of you may wish to consider signing this parliamentary petition re the future of European research following Brexit.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/150220
We require any BRexit deal preserves UK access to EU collaborative R&D programs.
UK access to EU R&D programmes stimulates £billions of investment and gives the UK access to skills and technologies that it does not have. Ending our access to these programmes will weaken our economy which depends on exploitation of innovative science and technology.
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The BRexit negotiators could request associate country status as part of the deal, preserving much of the value of the collaborations. Of course, the UK could replace the funding lost from the EU, but it cannot replace the research collaboration with like minded researchers across the EU. They would have no incentive to collaborate with UK researchers without financial incentives. The UK would thus lose influence and damage an economy dependent on ideas generation and exploitation.
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