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If you took the time to find out more you'd understand that this was a consortium of European based companies who applied for EU funding. The Symbian Foundation was set to receive a share of this money, about £1.2 million, with the rest shared between the other members of the consortium, but it's irrelavant now as the Symbian Foundation will close by the end of March next year with most people who work there losing their jobs by Christmas.

At the same time, Nokia will make about half of the former Symbian Software engineering team redundant in London and close the entire Cambridge site, with another 300 job losses.

Well I sympathise (and empathise actually, I'm very very unlikely to have a job beyond March myself) but Nokia 'did a Kodak' basically didn't they? In that the future direction of the industry was fairly clear but they failed to keep up quick enough. You obviously know a lot more about it than me though.