Zoe Peden, partner at Ananda Impact Ventures.

Opinion

September 8, 2023

Britain rejoining Horizon Europe is disaster averted, nothing more

Leaving the EU-funded research and innovation programme was a travesty and the reverberations will be felt for decades to come

Zoe Peden

4 min read

If you were walking around Oxford, Cambridge or the campuses of Imperial or University College London (UCL) on an uncharacteristically sunny afternoon in Britain earlier this week, you might well have heard a curious sound: champagne corks popping. 

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