Preliminary results of the Open Call
The TrialsNet Open Call has closed, and it was a success! We received 158 proposals. One-third of them aimed at option 1 and two-thirds at option 2. 58% of the applications come from single applicants, the rest from consortia. The vast majority of applicants have been SMEs. The detailed distribution of applicants by type is reported in the following figure.
Applications arrived from 27 different countries, covering most of the European Union, and even beyond! The detailed distribution of applicants by country of origin is reported in the following figure.
The received applications covered all the three domains defined in our project, i.e., Infrastructure, Transportation, Security & Safety, eHealth & Emergency, and Culture, Tourism & Entertainment, being the first one the most represented (see details in the following figure).
Finally, the target locations for the use cases proposed in the received applications are also fairly distributed among the project sites and other locations (option 2). See the detailed distribution in the following figure.
The following steps are to conclude the feasibility check of the received proposals and to proceed with the contracting phase with the winning participants. We wish good luck to all the applicants!
