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, 21 % of all pre-proposals were eventually funded.

Success rates are summarized in the table below.

DescriptionStage I:
Pre-proposal
Stage II:
Full proposals
Funded projects
No. of proposals24155
- Principal investigators involved84 5217
- overall funding requested13.2 M €8.9 M €3.1 M €
Proposal success rate63%33% 

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).

Graphic shows number of successful principal investigators per country (pre-proposals).
Fig.1a. Principal investigators per country in stage I. pre-proposal submission. © ERA-NET NEURON
Graphic shows number of successful principal investigators per country (full proposals).
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 (24 in total):Funded proposals (5 in total):
Germany: 14Germany: 5
Finland: 1

Gender distribution

Pre-proposals: 12% of the principal investigators and 35% of the coordinators were female.

Full proposals: 12% of the principal investigators and 40% of the coordinators were female.

Funded projects: 14% of the principal investigators and 60% of the coordinators were female.