Evaluation of the effectiveness of the New Instruments of ... - CORDIS

1. Overall situation of FP6 (first calls)
Cost of retained proposals
1%
1%
16%
21%
61%
IP
NoE
STREPs
Ca
SSA
FP6
(new instruments)
FP6
(all instruments)
Average EC contribution requested 12 M 6.2 M
Average number of participants 32 17.5
Financial oversubscription rate
7 (IP)
7.3
9.5 (NoE)
Participation rate of SMEs 13 % 16 %
Participation rate of industry
34 %(IP)
23 %
Participation rate from new Member
States and Accession Countries
10 % (NoE)
6-7 % 7 %
The New Instruments are taking the large majority of the funds (77%) from the start of the 6 th
Framework Programme. This is valid for all priorities, except for Priority Thematic Area (PTA)
7 7 .
More money is invested in IPs than in NoEs. PTA 5 is an exception with a similar amount
invested in both instruments.
The average size of projects has increased significantly as foreseen. Based on the
information available to the panel it seems that the average grant per participant and per
year has not increased in comparison to FP5, which is an unexpected result worth further
analysis (see also annex 4).
7 The low percentage of funds used on the New Instruments is due to the fact that there was a second
part of this first call which was exclusively open to New Instruments. Adding up both parts of the first
call would lead to figures much more similar to the "average" picture, but the selection process for this
second part is not yet completed in May 2004.
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