I found this tweet from @ICTinnovEU, linking to a news article saying: “Under the Open Disruptive Innovation (ODI) topic, 29 projects from 12 countries have been pre-selected for funding.”, with a graph showing that none of them is from Italy
But they have some more stats and figures in there: 2666 proposals in total, of which 155 are going to be funded in this round with 50k EUR each. That’s 5.8% winners, compared to 0.24% winners in EU Social Innovation Competition. So @Alberto was right about “good chances” in this call. It seems worth to try again next time, as we hopefully will receive their scoring for our application in August.
The statistics from the second cut-off date of SMEInst applications are out: they received 1900 applications this time. See this EC news release, which also breaks this down per country and per topic, and compares with those from the first cut-off date.
The really interesting thing is here that we (esp. @Alberto) had assumed that the second and following cut-off dates would have many more applications than the first, as “people tend to skip deadlines”. But it’s the opposite (2666 to 1900: down 29%). So if we – or @ElenaT or whoever else – have something again for H2020, it makes sense to try …
ER is not a good fit for SME Instruments – the EU does not like it that we are non profit. We could partner up again with @marco.giacomassi and TwinBit, of course. Do you (@Matthias) think this would be a good way to add fuel to the OpenEthnographer project? Do we even need it?
Didn’t mean to imply we need more funding for Open Ethnographer … since we don’t. I’m only sayin’, if we have an idea for another project, SMEInst funding is still a way to go since it’s still not overcrowded. But basically, I just found this number and here was the only meaningful place to share it
I won’t be writing the application personally for H2020 - but just as last time, two from my TheJamble-team will probably try to hand in an application this round.
