EFIL - European dataset of public R&D funding instruments

EFIL aims at enabling users to investigate public R&D funding in Europe at the level of project funding instruments and research funding organizations (RFO), addressing questions related to policy design and policy implementation. Objectives of EFIL are: (i) re-composing and characterizing the portfolios of funding instruments of relevant RFOs from selected European countries (AT; CH; CZ; DE; DK; EE; FR; IT; NO; UK); (ii) producing evidence of the structural and allocational aspects of funding instruments. The dataset provides a set of descriptors with an emphasis on a general characterization of the instrument (aim, mode of funding, composition of the decision-making body, etc.); funding allocation criteria and eligible beneficiaries; and funding amounts allocated. A peculiar feature of the facility is the possibility to characterize the instruments through key words and vocabularies. Indeed, the facility is complemented by a repository of official documents hosted on a cloud -composed of instrument calls, guidelines for participants, descriptions on official webpages, etc. - that is accessible to the database user. EFIL is integrated in the European Research Infrastructure for Science and Innovation policy Studies (RISIS), interlinked with registers and datasets, such as OrgREG - which provides a comprehensive register of public-sector research and higher education organizations in European countries - , NATPRO (a module of the EUPRO database) - a data resource on national R&D projects, and SIPER - a repository on STI evaluation reports.