Strong links to eastern Europe and a push from the government are behind the overwhelming German presence in Horizon 2020’s Teaming initiative, observers have said.
The European Commission published the results of the first round of Teaming calls on 30 January, revealing the 31 projects that will receive a total of €14.5 million. Germany is involved in 21 of them, in partnership with researchers in Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.
“German success is probably a reflection of the presence of a large number of researchers with eastern European backgrounds in German research institutes,” says Luc Soete, the rector of Maastricht University in the Netherlands and chairman of the Commission’s Research, Innovation and Science Policy Experts group.
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