The European Commission has released information about Horizon 2020’s first 100 calls for proposals, which closed on December 1, 2014. For these calls, 31,115 full, eligible proposals were submitted. Applications from those proposals numbered 123,334 and together requested €80.3 billion ($88.5 billion). Of the proposals, 4,315 were retained for funding, and 3,236 grant agreements were signed by April 30, for a total of €5.5 billion awarded. Of the total number of eligible applications, 91% were from EU member states. The EU countries with the largest number of eligible applications were the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and France. By sector, universities submitted the most applications, followed by the private sector and research organizations, with 35%, 31% and 18% of the total, and 30%, 28% and 21% of retained applications, respectively. Horizon 2020 also met its goal of 20% EU financial contribution to small- and medium-sized enterprises.

Source: European Commission