Science|Business
Policy Analysis: Investment, Policy
Published: 12 July 2012
Horizon 2020: Sometimes too simple and sometimes too complicated

Shane McCollam, Science|Business

MEPs say work is still needed to strike the balance between flexibility, coherence and reliability


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The greatest clamour for change in Horizon 2020 has been for a simplification of procedures compared to the over-weaning bureaucracy of its predecessor FP7.  In rising to this challenge, the Commission has made a set of changes that aim to allow and encourage a broader and larger range of organisations to participate in open calls, with the promise that they will be met by a simpler and more efficient process.

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Related subjects: European Parliament, ITRE, Horizon 2020, simplification

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