About Europe - Countries
Belgium
Country Profile
- GDP: 450,506 mil. euros (Eurostat 2018)
- GDP per Capita: 39,500 euros (Eurostat 2018)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals, Space
Research Institutions & Funding Agency
- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK-CEN) : http://www.sckcen.be
- Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (VKI) : www.vki.ac.be
- Cenaero : www.cenaero.be
- Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) : www.vib.be
- Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Centre (IMEC) : www.imec.be
- Research Foundation – Flanders(FWO) : www.fwo.be
- Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique(fnrs) : www.frs-fnrs.be
Denmark
Country Profile
- GDP: 78,005.1 mil. euros (Eurostat 2019)
- GDP per Capita: 53,760 euros (Eurostat 2019)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Medtech, Clean Tech, Renewable Energy,
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education (DAFSHE) : www.ufm.dk
Innovation Fund Denmark: www.Innovationsfonden.dk
Technical University of Denmark : www.dtu.dk
University of Southern Denmark : www.sdu.dk
- University of Copenhagen :www.ku.dk
France
Country Profile
- GDP: 2,424,708 million EUR (Eurostat 2019)
- GDP per Capita: 33,270 EUR (Eurostat 2019)
- R&D Expenditure: 51,769 million EUR (Eurostat 2018)
- Marked S&T Areas: earth science, atmospheric science, energy, green technology, Information & communication, big data, smart city, AI, spatial science
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
- ANR : http://anr.fr
- CNRS : www.cnrs.fr
- CNES : https://cnes.fr
- Institut Pasteur : www.pasteur.fr
Germany
Country Profile
- GDP: 3,344,370 mil. euros (Eurostat 2018)
- GDP per Capita: 40,300 euros (Eurostat 2018)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Automotive & Traffic Technologies, Aviation Technologies, Biotechnology, Energy Technologies, Environmental Technology, Health Research, Humanities, Information & Communication Technologies, Maritime Technologies, Materials Technology, Medical Technologies, Natural Sciences, Nanotechnology, Optical Technologies, Photonics, Plants, Production Technologies, Security Research, Services, Social Sciences, Space Technology
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
- Max Planck Society (MPG) : www.mpg.de/en
- Fraunhofer Society (FhG) : www.fraunhofer.de/en.html
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres : www.helmholtz.de/en
- Leibniz Association : www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) : www.humboldt-foundation.de/en
- German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) : www.daad.de/en/
- German Research Foundation (DFG) : www.dfg.de/en
Greece
Country Profile
- GDP: 183,414 mil. euros (Eurostat 2019)
- GDP per Capita: 17,497 euros (Eurostat 2019)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: ICT, Health, Agro-food including Fisheries and Aquaculture, Marine Science and Technology, Micro-Nano Electronics
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation : HFRI - Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (elidek.gr)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens : https://en.uoa.gr/
University of Crete : https://en.uoc.gr/
Italy
Country Profile
- GDP: 1,756,982 mil. euros (Eurostat 2019)
- GDP per Capita: 29,100 euros (Eurostat 2019)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Life sciences, biotechnology, aerospace, aeronautics, biomedicine, engineering, food sciences, oil industry, microelectronics, physics, material sciences, advanced materials, ICT, robotics, environment and energy, transportation, automotive
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
National Research Council :www.cnr.it
Italian Institute of Technology : www.iit.it
Stazione Zoologica di Napoli :www.szn.it
Politecnico di Milano : www.polimi.it
Politecnico di Torino : www.polito.it
Netherlands
Country Profile
- GDP: 774,039 mil. euros (Eurostat 2018)
- GDP per Capita: 44,900 euros (Eurostat 2018)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Agro-food & Nutrition, Chemical, Creative industry, Energy, High-tech System & Materials, Horticulture, Life science & Health, Logistics and Water
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
- Brainport : http://www.brainport.nl/en
- Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) : https://www.tue.nl/en/
- DELTARES : https://www.deltares.nl/en
- Dutch Polymer Institute (DPI) : http://www.polymers.nl
- Maritime Research Institute Netherlands (MARIN) : http://www.marin.nl
- Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) : https://english.rvo.nl
- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) : http://www.tno.nl
- Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) : http://www.nlr.org
- University of Twente (UT) : www.utwente.nl/en
- WUR : https://www.wageningenur.nl
Spain
Country Profile
- GDP: 1,244,800 mil. euros (Eurostat 2019)
- GDP per Capita: 26,692 euros (Eurostat 2019)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Food, agriculture and fisheries, transport technologies, construction technologies, environment and biotechnologies
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology(CDTI) : http://www.cdti.es
The Spanish National Research Council(CSIC) : https://www.csic.es/es
The Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology(CIEMAT) : https://www.ciemat.es/portal.do
The Geological Survey of Spain (IGME) : http://www.igme.es/
The Carlos III Health Institute(ISCIII) : https://www.isciii.es/Paginas/Inicio.aspx
Sweden
Country Profile
- GDP: 474,468 mil. euros (Eurostat 2019)
- GDP per Capita: 52,265 euros (Eurostat 2019)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Life Science, Sustainable Urban Management, Aerospace, Energy and ICT, Mining, Minerals and Steel, Forest Products and Biomass
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Research Institutes of Sweden : www.ri.se/en
Royal Institute of Technology: www.kth.se/en
Karolinska Institutet : www.ki.se/en/startpage
Chalmers University of Technology : www.chalmers.se/en
Uppsala University : www.uu.se/en
Finland
Country Profile
- GDP: 237,467 mil. euros (Eurostat 2020)
- GDP per Capita: 42,940 euros (Eurostat 2020)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: ICT, Digital Health, Smart Cities, Bioeconomy, Mobile Technologies, Cleantech, Renewable Energy, Forest and Environmental Sciences, Sustainable and Urban Development, and Sustainability
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Academy of Finland : Academy of Finland - Academy of Finland (aka.fi)
Finnish national Agency for Education: Finnish National Agency for Education (oph.fi)
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. : www.vtt.fi
Aalto University : www.aalto.fi
Romania
Country Profile
- GDP: 249,188 mil. euros (Eurostat 2020)
- GDP per Capita: 11,290 euros (Eurostat 2020)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Energy, Environment and Climate change, Advanced materials
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation : www.research.gov.ro
Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding – UEFISCDI: uefiscdi.gov.ro
Ireland
Country Profile
- GDP: 324,038 mil. euros (Eurostat 2018)
- GDP per Capita: 66,700 euros (Eurostat 2018)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Immunology, Animal and Dairy, Nanoscience, Computer science and Material science
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Irish Research Council : research.ie/funding
Enterprise Ireland : enterprise-ireland.com
Country Profile
- GDP: 46,297 mil. euros (Eurostat 2020)
- GDP per Capita: 22,010 euros (Eurostat 2020)
- Areas of marked S&T specialisations: Material science, Medical science, Chemical engineering
Research Institutions & Funding Agencies
Slovenian Research Agency : http://www.arrs.si/en/index.asp
University of Ljubljana : https://www.uni-lj.si/research_and_development/research_news/
- University of Maribor : https://www.um.si/en/research/research-development/mission-vision-strategy/Pages/default.aspx