Brazilian Participation in H2020

Posted on December 08, 2020

12-May-2020

According to the March 2020 data of the European Commission, 205 Brazilian organizations participate in 133 H2020 Projects and receive 16,2 million Euro contribution from the EU. The success rate accounts for 19,4%, which is above the European average.

61% of the project participants are from universities, followed by participation from the private sector (19%) and research organizations (10%), respectively. 

At the Programme level, Excellent Science Pillar shows the strongest participation with %43,4. Within this pillar, Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions count for 88% of the participations.

Around 43% of the Brazilian H2020 participation falls under the Societal Challenges pillar. The top 3 sub-themes within this pillar are Food security, sustainable agriculture, and forestry, marine and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy (45%), Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials (18%) and Health, demographic change and wellbeing (17%).

Industrial Leadership pillar comes at the 3rd level in Brazilian participation with over 11%. ICT is the leading theme with more than 54%, followed by Advance Materials (25%) and Space (21%).

Source: EU Performance Monitoring tool of FFG | This tool is designed to collect, analyse and communicate data about the participation of Austrian organisations in Horizon 2020. EU Performance Monitoring for RTI is carried out on behalf of the federal government, represented by bmbwf, bmk, bmdw und bmlrt.

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