Wishing all of our subscribers a restful holiday period – thank you for your engagement in European research programmes, and for your support for UKRO.
UKRO and the NCP services will be closed from 20 December 2024 to 6 January 2025.
We are looking back at a slightly different year, which has been challenging at times. This year marked 40 years of UKRO and of the work we have done to support the UK participating in European research programmes, but it has also been a year of unprecedented change. The UKRO team transitioned to becoming UK-based, and while we have done our best to minimise the impact on the delivery of our services, we have been unable to provide the usual levels of bespoke support to our subscribers during this period.
Despite these resourcing challenges, UKRO European Advisors continued to deliver National Contact Point (NCP) services, respond to your enquiries, deliver webinars, and hold in-person meetings in collaboration with UUKi, the European Commission and the MSCA team. We have produced 100s of portal articles and updated our Factsheets to keep the UK research community well informed and help maximise engagement with EU funded programmes.
In the early part of 2025, we will continue to be in this transitional period of change, but we will be working towards a more sustainable solution to ensure that we can help the UK research and innovation communities participate in Horizon Europe. Your participation in the Subscriber Round Tables has been an invaluable part of working towards our future state and we want to thank our community once again for this engagement and input.
Our small team of European Advisors continue to be available for your queries via the UKRO mailbox, and we will continue to participate in Brussels-based meetings so that we can bring you the latest added-value information on Horizon Europe via our UKRO Portal.
We would like to thank you for all your questions, support and engagement in 2024, and wish you a restful and happy festive break!
With our best wishes, the UKRO Team
Holiday Closure Dates
The UKRO Office and our National Contact Point services will be closed for the holidays from Friday 20 December 2024 to Monday 6 January 2025.