Novelties in the Horizon Dashboard

The Horizon Dashboard is under constant development to respond to the evolving policy environment, to broaden and ease the access to our R&I programmes’ data and to improve user experience. 

Many things happened in the Horizon Dashboard family during the first months of 2020.

The general public can now benefit from the enhancements added in the external Horizon Dashboard:

• A brand new Organisation profile  
• Enhanced EIC Pilot Dashboards 
• Enhanced Seal of Excellence Dashboard 

Additionally, internal users will discover several new views in the internal Horizon Dashboard:

• Audit Dashboard  
• Time-to-Grant (TTG) Dashboard  
• Covid-19 Dashboard
• Gender Dashboard prototype 
• Additional elements replacing the old “R reports” from eCORDA and WebCORDA platforms

New Organisation profile to monitor the performance of any organisation in H2020 and FP7 

More than 50.000 organisations have benefited so far from EU funding through Horizon 2020 and FP7. This new tool will allow you to find out more about how they are performing in the EU funded R&I programmes. It replies to a longstanding request from the Member States to have such a tool at their disposal. The tool will further evolve over time.   

Purpose? 

Find out more about the performance of any organisation participating in FP7 and/or H2020: its projects, the amount of EU funds received, the project partners. 

Content?  

• FP7 and H2020 programmes

• Evolution by year 

• Participation by pillar, thematic priority, type of action 

• Detailed list of projects 

Who is it for? 

Internal and external users  

Where to find it?

In the public Horizon Dashboard 

Enhanced EIC Pilot dashboards fitting better the programme's reality 

Until now, the EIC reporting in the dashboard was covering the EIC Pilot timeframe only, starting as of its establishment back in 2018. Following a request from the EIC taskforce, there has been an enhancement of the reporting on the EIC Pilot to include all the related topics. Additionally, the topics have been classified per EIC scheme: Accelerator, Pathfinder, Fast-Track-to-Innovation and EIC Horizon Prizes; and there is a new data export functionality. 

Purpose? 

Monitoring and analysis of the EIC pilot implementation 

Content?  

• Now covering topics from before its establishment 

• Topics classified by the EIC scheme: Accelerator, Pathfinder and Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) , EIC Horizon Prizes

• New reporting elements for the EIC schemes 

• Raw data export functionality

Who is it for? 

Internal and external users  

Where to find it?

These reports are currently available under thematic views (internal) in the internal Horizon Dashboard, and in the public Horizon Dashboard.

Seal of Excellence dashboard now containing data about the MSCA-IF proposals awarded with the seal and the EIC COVID-19 Response Seals of Excellence awards

Project proposals receiving the Seal of Excellence (SoE) label are those that expert evaluators evaluated positively for receiving EU funding but did not get it due to budget limitations. The SoE label should help applicants to find alternative funding while national or regional funding bodies can take advantage of the EU evaluation process to fund excellent innovative projects. 

Find out more about those hundreds of excellent proposals that couldn’t be funded, out of which 139 are targeting solutions to help recover from the COVID-19 crisis. 

Purpose? 

Analyzing, identifying excellent proposals that could not get EU funding but are worth being funded by other funding bodies such as national and regional funding bodies 

Content?  

• Proposals data by cut-off, differentiating the duplicates 

• SoE by keywords 

• Overview by country and region

• List of proposals available in the internal dashboard

Who is it for? 

Internal and external users 

Where to find it?

The SoE dashboard is currently available in the public horizon dashboard and in the internal horizon dashboard under section ‘thematic views’.

A new audit dashboard to better follow up the internal audits  

This dashboard provides aggregated figures of the financial audits carried out by the Common Audit Service on H2020 including Euratom participations. It covers open, scheduled and closed audits.

Purpose? 

To better monitor the internal audits outputs and achievements 

Content?  

• H2020 Audits overview 

• H2020 Participations in audits and cumulative targets 

• H2020 Audit strategy KPIs 

• H2020 Corporate & local selections and achievements 

Who is it for? 

Internal users only 

Where to find it?

In the internal horizon dashboard page, under the audit section

A new Time-to-grant dashboard  

The time to grant is defined as the time between the call closure and the grant agreement signature date. In the report, the user will find FP7 and H2020 average time to grant statistics per year, DG/service, directorate and unit. This interactive dashboard is replacing the old fashioned TTG report currently still available in WebCORDA.

Purpose? 

Better monitor the time-to-grant versus the targets set in H2020 rules for participation. Identify areas for improvement, take corrective measures to ultimately improve our performance. 

Content?  

• Covering FP7 and H2020 

• Average time to grant per FP, year, DG/DIR/Unit 

• Evolution of the time to grant over time 

• Comparison of the average time to grant versus targets 

Who is it for? 

Internal users only 

Where to find it?

In the internal horizon dashboard page, under the operational section 

COVID-19 Portfolio Analysis (prototype) 

The COVID-19 portfolio analysis was set up in the first week of the lockdown and it is a collaboration between different directorates in DG RTD as well as Executive Agencies and other DGs from the R&I family. The portfolio consists of FP7 and H2020 projects identified in different levels of response that can contribute to fight the health emergency and to strengthen the resilience of our socio-economic systems.  

Purpose? 

The purpose of this dashboard is to help to structure and classify the relevant projects from the COVID-19 portfolio analysis exercise.  

Content?  

• Main statistics about the projects identified by the Services: response level, funding, costs, participations, keywords. 

• Feedback collected from the beneficiaries: comments and outcomes. 

• Classification of the portfolio according to different policy objectives using Cortex and validation by the implementing bodies. 

• Publications and IPRs as reported by the projects from the portfolio. 

• Export of the raw information functionality. 

Who is it for? 

Internal users only

Where to find it?

Ad Hoc Dashboards Stream from the internal dashboard. 

Gender dashboard (prototype) 

With its strategy on gender equality in Horizon 2020, the EU is contributing to promote gender equality in Research and Innovation. A new dashboard prototype has been developed and will be proposed as a tool to accompany the work of the gender matrix.

Purpose? 

Monitor the following objectives of the gender equality strategy in Horizon 2020 and FP7:

• Fostering gender balance in research teams

• Ensuring gender balance in decision-making.

Content?  

The prototype is still being tested by the Gender Matrix and it contains data referring to the gender balance in research teams. Future developments will address the other Gender equality objectives (e.g. integration of the gender dimension in research content).

Who is it for? 

Internal - restricted use. Contact RTD GENDERINRESEARCH to be granted access. 

Where to find it?

Gender Matrix collaborative space – Restricted access

Replacement of the R reports by dashboard elements 

To enhance user-friendliness and ease the access to data, the data team is progressively replacing the old static reports by more modern dashboard views or elements.  

In this context, the predefined “R reports” from eCORDA and WebCORDA have been introduced in Horizon Dashboard via enhanced charts, alternative measures and dimensions or additional filters. The enhanced dashboards are available through the eCORDA stream to the dedicated external users and via the internal dashboards for the internal users.