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Horizon 2020 final evaluation

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| 2 years ago
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  • Horizon Europe
  • Horizon 2020

The Commission has published the ex-post evaluation of Horizon 2020 (41% of projects are still running). The Commission has assessed a.o.  the scientific, societal and economic impact of the programme with domain-specific details; the performance of the simplificaiton measures; and the Horizon 2020 leverage towards additional R&I resources. The Commission calculated that the overall success rate was on average 12%. They estimated that over 276000 peer-reviewed publications are produced, of which 3.9% are in the top 1% most cited publications worldwide. They aknowledged that there are not enough monitoring arrangements to capture wider societal impact -  efforts to improve under Horizon Europe are on-going.

Interesting links:

-  Press release page

- Commission report (12 pages)

- Exectuve summary (4 pages)

- Evaluation report (staff working document)(100 pages)

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