Forget about the UK. Why do actual EU countries get so much less?!
EDIT: The downvoters in the comments below really show you can't have a normal conversation when Israel is involved. There's some militant people with an agenda in the comments whenever that country's name is dropped here.
As painful as it sounds it's because they don't innovate or they do on very small scales. And that as /u/deceased_parrot said is because of corrupt politicians that do not try to foster a culture of innovation or try to improve the education in these countries.
You're cutting off the first part of my comment: "Forget about the UK." I was clearly implying "I understand why the UK gets so little given that it's no longer in the EU". But it also doesn't surprise me that the UK or Norway get funding given how closely they are interlinked with the EU economy. For the UK it might still be leftover commitments post-Brexit. For Norway, it's literally in the single market.
Why Israel? Why not South Korea? Feel free to answer the question. You don't need to imply that I'm a nazi. I'm not a nazi. It's a legitimate question even though the name of the country is Israel, believe it or not.
No, I'm literally just asking a question (No this is not a dog whistle, don't freak out). I'm not gonna argue with you if you just provide an answer (which you haven't despite your claims).
Is Israel part of some sort of EU program for collaborative research? I know I could google it at this point, but it's very interesting how difficult it seems for a certain type of person to answer simple questions once the name Israel is dropped. If you just point me to such a program, the above list would make somewhat sense again.
EDIT: I googled it myself now. Israel is part of Horizon Europe.
Because you actually need an innovative economy to create projects worth funding. In Bulgaria we can't even get the post offices to accept card payments and universities still need you to go apply in person. Why would we be getting that money? So another crook can build a villa under the guise of an "eco-house concept" because he slapped a solar panel on top?
Stop with the self-degrading bullshit, there's plenty of innovation happening in Bulgaria, quick example - one of world's best AI institutes (INSAIT) is in Sofia, funded by Google and Amazon, and co-organized by Sofia University with ETH Zurich and EPFL - 2 of the best schools for computer science in the world.
In fact in this very graph, you can see we are doing quite well with the received funding for a country of our size. We are also the best country in this graph from Eastern Europe.
Don't get me wrong, we can (and should) do better, but self degradation will not help us improve even further.
Why Israel tho? If the funding is completely agnostic to the country of origin, you might as well pump that money into projects in South Korea or Canada, no?
Because South Korea and Taiwan never applied to be part of the program, while Israel did. Canada actually joined parts of the program this year as well.
I love how I'm getting downvoted for asking a question and how you're not even mentioning which program you're talking about (which wasn't mentioned in the post or anywhere in this specific comment chain). I googled it myself eventually. The program is Horizon Europe and none of you mfers thought it necessary to mention it a single time for whatever reason.
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u/Terrible-Duck4953 India 2d ago
Why does the UK get so less funding than Israel.