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

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