The European Commission in collaboration with European organisations launched the European COVID-19 Data Platform in April 2020. The Platform is a leading example on how the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) enables researchers to share, access and analyse COVID-19 related data.
EU lags behind the United States and China in the number of super computers.
Germany, Sweden and Denmark are the EU countries with the highest density of industrial robots.
EU lags behind the most innovative economies in the new International Digital Economy and Society Index (I-DESI)
The share of R&D tax relief in total government support to business R&D in the EU increased from 26% in 2006 to 57% in 2018.
Companies in the European Union have increased their investment in R&D for the tenth consecutive year.
The EU’s R&D expenditure amounts to 2.20% of the GDP in 2019, slightly up from 2.18% in 2018.
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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.
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.
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.
On 24 September, the European Commission has published several monitoring flashes about Horizon 2020. The monitoring flash number 5 analyses and maps Horizon 2020’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals.
On 27 May, the European Commission published its biennial report “Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU 2020”, entitled “A Fair, Green and Digital Europe”. The Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU 2020 analyses Europe's performance in science, research and innovation and the driving factors behind that performance in a global context.
On 8 September Elsevier published a report on mapping the Sustainable Development Goals.
On 22 June, Eurostat launched the publication "Sustainable development in the European Union — Monitoring report on progress towards the SDGs in an EU context - 2020 edition". The report provides a statistical overview of the progress towards the SDGs in the EU. Together with the report, Eurostat also provided a short brochure, interactive visualisation tools and a methodology report.
On 2 September 2020, Cornell, INSEAD and WIPO launched the 13th edition of the annual Global Innovation Index (GII). The 2020 report has a special focus on financing innovation. The Global Innovation Index covers 131 countries and is based on 80 indicators.
On 23 June 2020, the European Commission published the 2020 edition of the European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS).
The extent to which carbon emissions have fallen in 2020 has been calculated/estimated by Carbon Monitor.
