45,000 applications for Horizon 2020 so far

Horizon 2020 has received about 45,000 proposals in the 14 months since its inception, EU research commissioner Carlos Moedas has said.

The figure is 10,000 more than the number reported by Commission’s director-general for research and innovation, Robert-Jan Smits, in December.

Moedas told Science Business that the figure represented a “great start” for the programme, but acknowledged that the low success rates are a cause for concern. “It’s good because we’re going to get the best of the best,” he said. “We’ll really have a problem with the success rate.”