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Iceland and Norway sign up to join Horizon 2020
"I am delighted that our excellent cooperation with Iceland and Norway will continue through their association to Horizon 2020"
Iceland and Norway on Friday became the first non-EU countries to associate to Horizon 2020, the seven-year EU research and innovation programme launched in January. The decision, taken at a meeting of the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Committee, takes effect from the beginning of Horizon 2020 allowing these two countries' researchers and companies to participate on the same basis as their counterparts in the EU. In return, the two countries will contribute financially to Horizon 2020, the biggest ever EU research and innovation programme with a budget of nearly €80 billion.
Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, said: "I am delighted that our excellent cooperation with Iceland and Norway will continue through their association to Horizon 2020. Science is global, as are the many challenges we face that we can only solve through research and innovation. This is why we have to work together, and why we hope to associate many more countries to Horizon 2020.”
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