Mid-term review calls for broader success in winning grants and more French project coordinators
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French research institutes and universities have been told to improve their performance in the second half of Horizon Europe. In particular, they must work towards broader success in winning grants and secure more project coordination roles.
“French participation is concentrated on a few large beneficiaries, which must do more to bring along the entire national research and innovation ecosystem,” according to a mid-term review carried out by the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) won more funding than any other European organisation in the first years of Horizon Europe, with €658 million, although this covers a multitude of different research institutes and labs across France. The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA,…
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