European research funding for underperforming member states is set to triple, but some nations are still being left behind
The EU’s newest member states have long struggled to claim a substantial share of funding from the bloc’s multibillion-euro research programmes.
The 13 countries—Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia—received just 4.2 per cent of research funding and contributed only 7.9 per cent of project participations between 2007 and 2013.
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