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HORIZONTAL PROGRAMMES

The information relating to the grants awarded for the 2013 call for proposals and to

the follow-up and closure of the 2012 call for proposals shows that the objectives were

met with a high degree of compliance:

• Percentage of withdrawals before the year of validity of the grant concluded,
continuing to work in the group. There was only one withdrawal before the end

of the validity period. This follows the trend established in 2010 and 2011, where

there was only an 11% withdrawal rate, in contrast with previous years: 60%
(9 out of 15) in 2007 and 43% (10 out of 23) in 2008. The reason for this

is associated with external factors, such as the fact that the delay in setting
the dates for deciding who will be awarded the general grants in the calls for

proposals is increasingly greater.

• Number of grants in the 2013 call for proposals: 8 grants. Within the range

established as optimal (8 to 12).

• Average grade of the candidates in the 2013 call for proposals: 2.56. Three tenths

lower than the average grade in the 2012 call for proposals, but considerable
higher than the cutoff point of 2.2.

Aids for Mobility

In 2013, aids for mobility opened up to external, national and international mobility,
eliminating the restriction from 2012 that limited these aids to intramural mobility.

Several investigators could therefore benefit from this programme to expand their
training and advance the projects in which they were involved.

• Number of examples of mobility: 18 requests, consolidating the trend established

in previous years

(2007=1; 2008=7; 2009=8; 2010=11; 2011=10; 2012=13; 2013=18).

Fifteen candidates were awarded aids for mobility, because 3 of the requests for

aid for mobility were for mobility within the same province, which cannot receive

economic aid.

One way to estimate the efficiency of internships is the feedback received in a ques-
tionnaire that the recipients are asked to complete after completing their internship.

They are specifically asked to answer five different questions, giving an answer on a

scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the worst and 5 being the best rating. Average results for the
different parameters in 2013 are shown below:

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• General interest in the mobility: 4.5 20
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• Usefulness for my current research work: 4.5 R
PO
• Future applicability of the knowledge acquired: 4.5 E
L R
• Collaboration offered by the receiving group: 5 A
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N
• Aid for mobility management: 5
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