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. Overall, 13 % of all pre-proposals were eventually funded.

Success rates are summarized in the table below.

Stage I:
Pre-proposal
Stage II:
Full proposals
Funded projects
No. of proposals913912
- Principal investigators involved36914946
- overall funding requested83 M €36 M €10 M €
Proposal success rate43%31% 

Country of origin and gender distribution of the applicants

The number of successful principal investigators per country is displayed in Figure 1a (pre-propropols; 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 submitted (91 in total):Funded proposals (12 in total):
Canada: 6Canada: 1
Finland: 7Finland: 2
France: 13France: 2
Germany: 50Germany: 7
Israel: 4
Italy: 3
Poland: 3
Portugal: 2
Romania: 2
Sweden: 1

Gender distribution

Pre-proposals: 29% of the principal investigators and 26% of the coordinators were female.
Full proposals: 34% of the principal investigators and 28% of the coordinators were female.
Funded projects: 38% of the principal investigators and 58% of the coordinators were female.