Purchasing power parity as an alternative financial indicator for evaluating participation in Horizon 2020 and other FPs

The article (ECHO, No 5–6/2022 or see the enclosure) briefly discusses the possibility of using purchasing power parity as an alternative financial indicator for assessing the participation of individual EU and associated countries in the Horizon 2020 programme and in other framework programmes.

Given the different price levels in Europe, a significant difference in the way in which projects under the EU Framework Programmes for Research and Development are evaluated has been identified. The application of purchasing power parity can serve as an alternative view of how the Czech Republic is doing financially within these programmes. The example of the H2020 programme shows that financial indicators for the Czech Republic (and for a number of other new EU Member States) are not nearly as unfavourable as it seems when working only with nominal values (see the enclosed Figure ). At the same time, it is possible to identify a positive trend in the growth of the number of participations and the acquisition of a higher amount of EU contribution at a lower price level in the Czech Republic and some of the new EU Member States.

Please, find the whole text from V. Vojtech and D. Frank on this link