• H2020
• Excellent Science
• European Research Council

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the most successful German university under Horizon 2020 with acquired third-party funding of more than €45m.

The result was published in the first Monitoring Report on Horizon 2020, compiled by the EU Commission.

The report was originally scheduled for release at the beginning of December 2015, at which time, KIT had taken part in 58 Horizon 2020 projects. This number has since risen to more than 80.

One such project is the recently approved LiRichFCC, which is co-ordinated by KIT. From more than 800 projects that had applied, LiRichFCC was selected as one of only 13 and is the only German-led one of its kind.

The Future Emerging Technologies (FET) Open line was initiated to promote the riskier innovative research projects, in which LiRichFCC aims to develop a new material class for electrochemical energy storage.

The Monitoring Report is based on information taken from the official EU Commission grant agreements database, E-CORDA, which retains information on all signed grants.

The results achieved under Horizon 2020, which began in 2014, run complementarily to the success achieved by KIT in the research and innovation programme’s predecessor, the 7th EU research framework programme. KIT benefitted under FP7 with grants of ~€128m.

Total third-party funds account for 42% of KIT’s 2015 budget. Fundraising, therefore, totalled €358m of third-party funds in 2015 (total budget in 2015: €860.8m), including funding schemes from the German government, the German Research Foundation, and industry.