Canada is to join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95.5 billion programme for research and innovation, according to Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau.
“Canada’s joining Horizon Europe, which is the greatest research and innovation mechanism in the world right now,” Trudeau said during a televised statement ahead of the Canada-EU summit taking place today, ending months of speculation over the success of negotiations between Ottawa and Brussels on association.
EU commission president Ursula von der Leyen and EU council president Charles Michel are in Newfoundland today to announce, together with Trudeau, “five big steps” towards closer collaboration in research and innovation, climate change and digital technologies.