The Horizon Dashboards aim to make it easy to get insights in the EU Research & Innovation finding, by turning complex data from Horizon Europe (and it predecessors, Horizon 2020, FP7, ...) into interactive, filterable views. Whether you’re a researcher, policymaker, NCP, or just someone trying to understand how EU funding is distributed and used, these dashboards are your go-to starting point.

What Are the Horizon Dashboards?

The Horizon Dashboards are hosted on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal. They give you access to detailed statistics about proposals, funded projects, country participation, and individual organisations involved in EU research and innovation programmes. The dashboards get updated roughly every two to four weeks. Most of the dashboards focus on Horizon  Europe and its precessor programmes (Horizon 2020, FP7, ...).

The Main Dashboards Explained

When you open any dashboard, it defaults to showing the complete, aggregated dataset for all framework programmes combined. To find anything actionable, you must use the built-in filters to drill down into specific projects, topics, or organizations.

The main constraint: The Horizon Dashboards primarily offer aggregated data and statistical summaries. You generally cannot "click through" directly from a high-level summary chart to a highly specific, granular piece of related metadata without a bit of manual searching.

The portal is organized into three primary high-level views:

1. Implementation Figures

This section is about the big picture. It’s split into two dashboards:

• R&I Proposals Dashboard: Shows data on all evaluated proposals, including how many were submitted, how many got funded, and success rates. You can slice this by country, organisation type, programme part, and more.

• R&I Projects Dashboard: Focuses on the projects that actually received funding. It breaks down the total budget, number of participants, and collaborations. You can zoom in on specific calls, topics, countries, or sectors.

This is where you go if you want to understand how the (sub)programme is performing in terms of volume and distribution of funding.

2. Country Profiles

The R&I Country Profiles Dashboard gives you a deep dive into how each country is doing in the EU’s research and innovation programmes. For each country, you can see information like: total EU funding received, number of participations, top regional performers, leading beneficiary organisations, SME participation rates, international collaboration patterns,...

It’s a good starting point if you’re trying to benchmark your country’s performance or understand regional disparities.

3. Organisation Profiles

Want to know how a specific university, research center, or company is performing in EU-funded R&I? The Organisation Profile dashboard lets you look up individual organisations and see: how many projects they’ve participated in, how much funding they’ve received, their main areas of activity, who they’ve collaborated with,...

This is especially useful for networking or identifying potential partners.

Difference between the Horizon Dashboards and CORDIS?

It’s easy to mix these up, especially because some information can be found on both platforms, but they serve different purposes.

• Horizon Dashboards: Focus on data analysis. They help you track performance and trends across proposals, projects, countries, and organisations. Think charts, filters, KPIs, and statistics.

• CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service): Focuses on dissemination. It gives you access to project summaries, results, deliverables, and publications. It’s more about the content and impact of funded projects than the numbers behind them.

So if you want to see how much funding a country got or how many proposals were successful, use the Dashboards. If you want to read the results of a funded project, head to CORDIS.

Using the dashboards

The Horizon Dashboards are meant to be easy to use, but they’re also built for people who understand the EU funding context. If you’re completely new to this, there’s a bit of a learning curve. But once you get the hang of it, they’re a powerful tool to help you work smarter, not harder.