Success rates of submitted proposals

The application procedure consisted of two stages: stage I “pre-proposal selection” and stage II “full proposal selection”, for details see Implementation of the call. The success rate was 42% of full proposals (21% of all pre-proposals).

Success rates are summarized in the table below.

DescriptionStage I:
Pre-proposal
Stage II:
Full proposals
Funded projects
No. of proposals713615
- Principal investigators involved28215460
- overall funding requested57.3 m€31.3 m€12.1 m€
Proposal success rate51%42%

Country of origin and gender distribution of the applicants

The number of successful principal investigators per country is displayed in Figure 1a (pre-proposals; stage I) and in Figure 1b (full proposals; stage II).

The graphic shows the number of principal investigators per country.
Fig.1a. Principal investigators per country in stage I, pre-proposal submission; © ERA-NET NEURON
The graphic shows the number of principal investigators per country.
Fig.1b. Principal Investigators per country in stage II, full proposal submissions; © ERA-NET NEURON


Coordinators of pre-proposals and funded proposals: 

Pre-proposals COO (71 in total)

CountryNumber
Turkey4
Germany18
France11
Canada3
Finland3
Spain10
Italy9
Romania2
Switzerland3
Belgium3
Greece4
Norway1

Funded projects COO (15 in total)

CountryNumber
Germany3
Romania1
France3
Italy3
Spain2
Belgium1
Canada1
Greece1

Gender distribution

The percentage of female researchers participating in this call is shown in Fig.2.

The graphic shows the percentage of female Principal Investigators (PI) and Coordinators (COO)
Fig.2. Percentage of female Principal Investigators (PI) and Coordinators (COO); © ERA-NET NEURON