02 Feb 2021 | News Policymakers call for greater speed in getting grants to researchers as Horizon Europe is formally launched Chair of the Parliament research and industry committee calls on Commission to ignore legal niceties and get money from new research programme flowing as soon as possible. MEPs also want more effort to create synergies with other funding streams With great fanfare, the European Commission heralded the start of its next big R&D programme, Horizon Europe – but it caught some criticism for the fact that it will be months before the money starts flowing or the remaining practical details get settled.