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 33% of full proposals (66% of all pre-proposals).

Success rates are summarized in the table below.

DescriptionStage I:
Pre-proposal
Stage II:
Full proposals
Funded projects
No. of proposals543612
- Principal investigators involved21115948
- overall funding   requested41.3 m€28.9 m€9.6 m€
Proposal success rate66%33% 

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 number of successful principal investigators per country is displayed  (pre-proposals; stage I)
Fig.1a. Principal investigators per country in stage I, pre-proposal submission. © ERA-NET NEURON

NEURON aims to increase the number of research groups from countries that are to date not well integrated in the funding scheme, so called ‘underrepresented’ countries. NEURON developed a Widening Concept comprising different measures to facilitate the integration of ‘underrepresented’ countries. As part of this, consortia that were invited to submit a full proposal were given the opportunity to add new groups from ‘underrepresented’ countries. Thus, a total of fifteen new research groups was added between pre- and full proposal stage.

The number of successful principal investigators per country is displayed (full proposals; stage II).
Fig.1b. Principal Investigators per country in stage II, full proposal submissions. © ERA-NET NEURON

Coordinators of pre-proposals and funded proposals:

Pre-proposals (54 COO in total):

CountryNumber
Belgium4
Canada2
France10
Germany18
Greece1
Hungary2
Israel1
Italy3
Latvia1
Norway2
Romania1
Spain6
Switzerland1
Turkey1

Funded projects (12 in total):

CountryNumber
Belgium3
France2
Germany4
Greece1
Hungary1
Norway1

Gender distribution

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

The percentage of female researchers participating in this call is shown.
Fig. 2. Percentage of female Principal Investigators (PI) and Coordinators (COO); © ERA-NET NEURON