Access to EU Research Budget to Be Enabled for Serbia – Government Proposes Confirmation of Agreement on Participation in Horizon Europe Program

The Serbian government adopted yesterday the Bill on Confirmation of the Agreement between the Republic of Serbia and the EU on the participation of the Republic of Serbia in the European Union's program Horizon Europe - a framework program for research and innovation.

– Bearing in mind that the Agreement enables Serbia to access the European Union budget for research, Serbian scientific research organizations will be on an equal footing with organizations from countries that are full members of the European Union. Given that, in this way, the state of research activity in our country and the pursuit of scientific work will be significantly improved, and the conditions for scientific work will be the same as in the European Union, one of the main causes of the departure of young highly educated personnel from Serbia will be significantly diminished – the announcement on the Government of Serbia’s website says.

The government also adopted and amended the Decree on establishing the Program of financial support for agricultural producers of sunflower in 2022 and allocated funds in the total amount of RSD 2.2 billion for these purposes.

At the session, a Decision was made on the formation of the Network for the fight against fraud and the management of irregularities in the handling of the financial resources of the European Union in order to more effectively implement measures and procedures for the prevention, control, detection and sanctioning of irregularities and frauds in the handling of the financial resources of the Union.

The network meets as needed, at least once every two months.

Vlada Republike Srbije

Government of Serbia

Horizon Europe

agreement of Serbia and EU

research and innovation program

financial support to sunflower producers

Network for the fight against fraud and the management of irregularities in the handling of the financial resources of the European Union