President of evaluation agency says researchers will be left without support
Italy’s research sector has been warned that the 2026 end of the EU’s Covid-19 recovery fund, which has bolstered public spending on research and innovation in the country in recent years, will cause a “huge problem”.
Next Generation EU has a total budget of over €800 billion to spend on investments and reforms in prescribed areas, including R&I, from 2021 to 2026. Italy’s share of the total, prior to revisions currently underway, amounts to over €191bn, of which about 36 per cent is in grants and the remainder in loans.