Call statistics for the 2020 "Sensory Disorders" call
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.
Description | Stage I: Pre-proposal | Stage II: Full proposals | Funded projects |
---|---|---|---|
No. of proposals | 54 | 36 | 12 |
- Principal investigators involved | 211 | 159 | 48 |
- overall funding requested | 41.3 m€ | 28.9 m€ | 9.6 m€ |
Proposal success rate | 66% | 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).

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.

Coordinators of pre-proposals and funded proposals:
Pre-proposals (54 COO in total):
Country | Number |
---|---|
Belgium | 4 |
Canada | 2 |
France | 10 |
Germany | 18 |
Greece | 1 |
Hungary | 2 |
Israel | 1 |
Italy | 3 |
Latvia | 1 |
Norway | 2 |
Romania | 1 |
Spain | 6 |
Switzerland | 1 |
Turkey | 1 |
Funded projects (12 in total):
Country | Number |
---|---|
Belgium | 3 |
France | 2 |
Germany | 4 |
Greece | 1 |
Hungary | 1 |
Norway | 1 |
Gender distribution
The percentage of female researchers participating in this call is shown in Fig.2.
