The 3rd series of FP7-NMP calls for Large, Small and SME targeted collaborative projects have been published. The evaluation followed a two-stage procedure. For the stage-1 deadline of 17 February 2009, 608 proposals were submitted. In the stage-1 proposals an outline had to be given of the foreseen R&D work and the expected impact.
Following the evaluation of these proposals in March 2009, 115 proposals were invited to submit a full proposal for the stage-2 deadline of 22 July 2009. In the full proposal a total overview of the R&D work had to be presented, as well as information about the partners, management structure, impact and exploitation and the dissemination strategy.
115 full proposals were submitted in stage 2, and evaluated in September 2009.
From the 115 evaluated proposals, 48 proposals reached all thresholds and were selected for funding. This represents an overall success rate of 42% in stage 2.
Detailed information about the three separate calls can be found in Table 1.
Table 2 gives an overview of the number of submitted and retained proposals for both stages. All topics have at least 2 retained proposals. Coordinators of these proposals have been invited for grant agreement negotiations.
Table 1: Total overview of submitted/retained proposals and requested budgets in the NMP 2009 call for Large, Small and SME-targeted projects.
| Call | LARGE-3 | SMALL-3 | SME-3 |
Budget available | 125 M€ | 80 M€ | 25 M€ |
| | Number | Requested funding | Number | Requested funding | Number | Requested funding |
| Proposals submitted stage 1 | 150 | 995 M€ | 354 | 990 M€ | 104 | 322 M€ |
| GO proposals stage 1 | 33 | 254 M€ | 64 | 196 M€ | 18 | 59 M€ |
| Success rate stage 1 | 23% | 18% | 17% |
| Proposals submitted stage 2 | 32 | 269 M€ | 64 | 208 M€ | 17 | 60 M€ |
| Retained proposals stage 2 | 16 | 128 M€ | 24 | 82 M€ | 8 | 28 M€ |
| Success rate stage 2 | 50% | 38% | 47% |
Table 2: Quantitative overview of submitted and retained proposals per topic in the NMP 2009 call for Large, Small and SME-targeted projects.
| Topic number | Type | Topic | Stage 1 | GO stage 1 | Success rate stage 1 | Retained stage 2 | Success rate stage 2 |
| NMP-2009-1.1-1 | Small | Nanobiotechnology: Applying life science principles as model for new nanotechnology-based mechanisms, processes, devices and/or systems | 62 | 10 | 16% | 4 | 40% |
| NMP-2009-1.2-1 | Small | Nanotechnology for harvesting energy via photovoltaic technologies | 70 | 12 | 17% | 5 | 42% |
| NMP-2009-1.2-2 | Small | Molecular factory: manufacturing objects with predictable and controllable properties | 42 | 7 | 17% | 3 | 43% |
| NMP-2009-2.1-1 | Small | Nano-structured materials based on graphene | 30 | 7 | 23% | 2 | 29% |
| NMP-2009-2.2-1 | Large | Oxide materials for electronics applications | 16 | 4 | 25% | 2 | 50% |
| NMP-2009-2.3-1 | Small | Biomimetic gels and polymers for tissue repair | 49 | 10 | 20% | 3 | 30% |
| NMP-2009-2.4-1 | SME | New biomass-based composite materials and their processing | 33 | 6 | 18% | 2 | 33% |
| NMP-2009-2.5-1 | Large | Light high-performance composites | 58 | 8 | 14% | 4 | 50% |
| NMP-2009-2.6-1 | Small | Novel membranes for water technologies (SICA) | 37 | 6 | 16% | 3 | 50% |
| NMP-2009-3.2-1 | Large | nnovative pathways for sustainable chemical production | 11 | 5 | 45% | 3 | 60% |
| NMP-2009-3.2-2 | Small | Adaptive control systems for responsive factories | 64 | 12 | 19% | 4 | 33% |
| NMP-2009-3.4-1 | Large | Automation and robotics for sustainable crop and forestry management | 19 | 5 | 26% | 2 | 40% |
| NMP-2009-3.4-2 | SME | Holistic and integrated approach to high performance, reliable and adaptive machine tool design and production | 24 | 4 | 17% | 2 | 67% |
| NMP-2009-4.0-3 | Large | Development of nanotechnology-based systems for molecular diagnostics and imaging | 28 | 7 | 25% | 6 | 50% |
| NMP-2009-4.0-4 | Large | Reducing the environmental footprint of energy intensive industries | 18 | 4 | 22% | 2 | 50% |
| NMP-2009-4.0-5 | SME | Innovative and knowledge-based tooling industry | 47 | 8 | 17% | 4 | 50% |
| Total | 608 | 115 | 19% | 48 | 42% |