University Research Action: EIBURS 2012 Selection Committee Results
Date: 2013-02-01
Institutions: European Investment Bank
Subjects: cost-benefit analysis, economic support, invitation to tender, patronage, profitability, university research








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University Research Action: EIBURS 2012 Selection Committee Results
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The EIB-University Research Sponsorship Programme (EIBURS) is part of the EIB Institute’s Knowledge Programme, through which the EIB aims to foster its institutional relations with universities. EIBURS provides grants to university research centres working on research topics and themes of major interest to the Bank. EIB bursaries, of up to EUR 100 000 per year for a period of three years, are awarded through a competitive process to interested university departments or research centres associated with universities in the EU, candidate countries or potential candidate countries, with recognised expertise in areas of direct interest to the Bank. The scholarship seeks to enable the chosen centres to expand their activities in these areas.
For the period 2012-2015, the EIBURS programme has selected three lines of research:






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Measuring Impact beyond Financial Return,










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Financial Literacy,










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Cost/Benefit Analysis in the Research, Development and Innovation Sector.




The EIB received 28 formal proposals for the three EIBURS sponsorships proposed for the period 2012-2015. The following table indicates the distribution of the applicants by country and theme:









EIBURS 2012


Measuring impact beyond financial return


Financial literacy


Cost/benefit analysis in the research, development and innovation sector


TOTAL




AT


 


 


1


1




BE


 


1


 


1




BG


1


1


 


2




DE


 


1


1


2




DK


 


1


 


1




ES


3


1


 


4




GR


1


 


 


1




IT


1


3


2


6




NL


1


1


 


2




PT


 


1


1


2




RO


 


1


 


1




UK


4


1


 


5




TOTAL


11


12


5


28




The Knowledge Committee decided, on 16 November 2012, to award the EIBURS grant for the lines of research:






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‘Measuring Impact beyond Financial Return’ to the London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom); and










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‘Cost/Benefit Analysis in the Research, Development and Innovation Sector’ to the University of Milan (Italy).




The Knowledge Committee also decided, on 21 December 2012, to award the EIBURS grant for the line of research ‘Financial Literacy’ to the University of Groningen (the Netherlands).
The programme of activities of the three EIBURS sponsorships will be published on the Knowledge Programme page of the EIB Institute's website once the contracts with the universities have been signed.
All applicants have been directly informed of these results.
The next round of EIBURS is expected to be launched in the coming months. The themes to be proposed will be announced at the launch.
For more extensive information on EIBURS and on the other programmes and mechanisms of the EIB-Universities Research Action, STAREBEI (STAges de REcherche BEI) and EIB University Networks, please visit the Knowledge Programme page of the EIB Institute's website.