Doubling the budget of FP9, in comparison to Horizon 2020, is necessary simply to maintain the attractiveness and improve the efficiency of this EU flagship. EUA has shown that considerable amounts of tax payers’ money is wasted in the preparation of excellent, yet discarded proposals, due to lack of funds available at EU level. Increasing the budget will help address the unsustainable low success rate issue and properly exploit the pool of excellent research ideas that exist across Europe. More...