In 2024, the EU will reach an important milestone: the 40th anniversary of the launch of its first Framework Programme (FP) for research. Since its founding, the EU’s Framework Programmes for research and innovation have grown into one of the world’s largest, and most open, funders for science and technology.
This report explains the origins and evolution of the programme since 1984, and summarises the issues now being debated as the EU plans the programme’s next instalment, to run from 2028 to 2034.
It also summarises the history of the company, Science|Business, which produced the report and in its news pages has chronicled much of that history daily since 2004.
