Submitted by Emma Bonsall on Wed, 15/04/2015 - 16:09
The European Commission has published the seventh and final monitoring report for its Framework 7 programme. The University of Cambridge is shown to have participated in the largest number of agreements. Over the course of the programme, it signed 737 grant agreements and received more than €424 million of EU funds.
The report found that out of the top 50 universities that participated in the programme—which ran between 2007 and 2013—a total of 14 were from the UK. This was followed by seven institutions from the Netherlands, six from Germany and five from Sweden.
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The top four academic participants are all from the UK, with the University of Cambridge in first. Over the course of the programme, it signed 737 grant agreements and received more than €424 million of EU funds. The University of Oxford is ranked second with 719 grant agreements, but won more funding—€437m—than Cambridge. Third was Imperial College at 657 grant agreements, and University College London with 610.
During Framework 7, the Commission launched 487 calls that received nearly 136,000 proposals, involving more than 600,000 organisations and individual applicants. Proposals had an average success rate of 19 per cent, whereas for applicants it was 22 per cent, the report found.
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