European Research Council winners and losers in Horizon Europe

15 Oct 2024 | News

New data shows which countries punch above or below their economic weight in the ERC and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

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Recently released data from the European Commission has shone a light on which countries do particularly well or poorly at winning grants from the European Research Council (ERC) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), compared to their national wealth.

Last week, the Commission released the latest in a series of reports looking at how the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, which began in 2021, is performing so far.

It contains an analysis of how much money each EU country receives from the ERC,…