Record numbers apply for Horizon 2020 first-round funding
The European Commission has received a deluge of 16,000 applications in the first round of calls for Horizon 2020, its €80 billion research and innovation programme.
“We were over-subscribed by a factor of nine,” said Robert-Jan Smits, director-general of DG Research and Innovation. The Commission’s first set of calls totaled €15 billion, and it received nine times that worth in applications, he said. That’s almost double the oversubscription rate in the first round of the previous research programme, the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). [...]
By: Eanna Kelly, Science|Business
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