As the UK leaves the European Union, we are working to understand the possible effects on our community and to inform and influence the science and innovation element of the exit negotiations.
We also work through our international engagement activities to keep the doors to international collaboration and exchange open.
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Read our policy proposals
How we are using our proposals to inform policy in the UK
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Read our policy proposals
Since the announcement that the UK will leave the EU, we have identified three priority areas for the UK government to address. These are:
- Easy movement of skilled scientists, and of students, to and from the UK.
- Ensuring access to international research and development funding programmes and infrastructure and, crucially, the associated collaboration opportunities.
- Regulation that achieves a balance between nurturing innovation, protecting the environment and human health, and enabling the UK to trade internationally.
UK Science and Innovation after the UK Exits the EU
Our policy briefing provides evidence on our three key priorities for science. The UK government must address these to ensure that science will continue to contribute to UK growth and prosperity.
For more detailed information on our policy proposals, please visit our policy page on Chemistry in the European Union.
How we are using our proposals to inform policy in the UK
We are engaging with a range of key stakeholders to carry these messages to the UK government.
Our President, Sir John Holman is representing the Council for Mathematical Sciences, Institute of Physics, Royal Society of Biology and Royal Society of Chemistry as a member of the Government’s High Level Stakeholder Working Group on EU Exit, Universities, Research and Innovation. This group provides an opportunity to engage with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for Education and the Department for Exiting the EU on issues facing the science and innovation community as the UK exits the EU.
We have provided oral evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee on the crucial role that chemistry will play in the UK’s future’s regulatory regime and worked with our sister societies to call upon government to develop future immigration arrangements that keep UK science open to the world.
We were part of a group of organisations that provided input into a briefing outlining Science Priorities for Brexit authored by Stephen Metcalfe MP, Chair of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee and the Commons Science and Technology Committee