Germany’s participation in Horizon 2020

Germany’s participation inHorizon 2020

Germany has participated in 87 public partnerships within Horizon 2020 (2014-2020). 

This is comparable to France and Spain, which participated in 89 and 91 partnerships respectively. Germany’s participation far exceeds the EU average. When it comes to coordinating partnerships, Germany presents one of the top scores with 21 coordinations. It comes second only to France, which had 23 coordinations.
Germany has been leading in the national contributions made available pre-call with € 666 million during Horizon 2020, making it the top participating country. This is almost double the amount made available by the second country in the rank, France, with € 341 million. However, when these contributions are normalised by the number of researchers (FTE), Germany drops down to the 18th place with around € 1593 per researcher FTE. Germany’s contribution is a bit below the EU27 or EU14 averages (around € 1760 per researcher FTE), comparable to Spain (€ 1566) and Italy (€ 1458), but above France (€ 1154) and far below Sweden (€ 3084).