Sweden still raising the bar – contribution to JPI Urban Europe by country
@JPIUrbanEurope has just launched its fourth call, the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures Call (ENSUF). In a Joint Programme Initiatives (JPIs) several European countries go together to coordinate research. Since 2012 four calls have been launched through this particular JPI, with changing participation in terms of countries as well as contribution in Euros.
The following two graphs show the contribution to the four calls by country. The first graph shows the absolute contribution in million Euros. The second is a relative index, showing the contribution as share of the countries GDP in PPS (Purchasing Power Standards, Data from Eurostat).
Sweden leads both graphs and has also had an impressively stable and high contribution through all four calls. In the most recent call ENSUF, Cyprus is making the highes contribution compared to its economy. A handful of other countries, including Austria, Finland, Belgium, Norway or the Netherlands, contributed in several calls, while 11 EU member states have never participated in the initiative. On the other hand, JPI Urban Europe goes beyond the EU with the participation of Norway, Switzerland and Turkey in one or more calls.
ps: Actually I am more interested in the call topics, but I got curious about the countries’ shares. Denmark has had varying contributions and I was wondering how this compares to other countries.
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