Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projects that were funded under Horizon 2020 in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the amount awarded to each project; and the geographical location of each. [39770/20]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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To date, Ireland has been part of 1,855 projects since the beginning of Horizon 2020 in 2014. The Commission “Dashboard” provides publicly available, regularly updated information on all these projects with links to each individual project including the start and end dates for the project, the institutions involved in the project, the geographical location of these institutions, and the funding each one has received in the course of the project:

A breakdown of Ireland by region using the information from the dashboard provides the following data:

- The Northern and Western region of Ireland (excluding Northern Ireland) is or has been involved in 690 projects to date since Horizon 2020 began.

- The Northern and Western region of Ireland (excluding Northern Ireland) has received €368 million in net EU contribution from Horizon 2020 to date since the programme began.

- The Eastern and Midlands region of the country is or has been involved in 872 projects to date since Horizon 2020 began.

- The Eastern and Midlands region has received €390.4 million in net EU contribution from Horizon 2020 since the beginning of the programme.

- The Southern region of the country is or has been involved in 505 projects to date since Horizon 2020 began.

- The Southern region has received €252.4 million in net EU contribution from Horizon 2020 since the beginning of the programme.

- In total, Ireland has received €1.04 billion in net EU contribution from Horizon 2020 since the programme began.

As an annex to this response, please find four excel spreadsheets which contain a list of projects Ireland has been involved in since the start of Horizon 2020 on a regional basis as well as a list of all projects in which Ireland has been involved in total. It includes links to each individual project for further information.

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