Commissioned to an external company, the study must obviously be contextualized. The analyzed data, in fact, only concern the first three clusters (in addition to the Cancer Mission and seven partnerships) and cover only the first two years of the Program. This aspect must be analyzed considering that, on the one hand, Horizon 2020 was also slower in its early years compared to the performance achieved towards the end; on the other hand, it should be noted that the years examined were also the peak years of the pandemic.
With this necessary premise, the data within it still constitute a useful initial assessment of the functioning of Horizon Europe, also w
