One year of EFSI: What's in it for universities?

While EUA warned against a shift of money from the highly successful grant funding programme (see EUA policy brief, March 2015), the European Commission justified the cuts by arguing that EFSI would also benefit universities and research. EUA analysed to what extent EFSI has done this and found out that universities do not seem to be benefitting at all from the funding scheme. http://www.eua.be/activities-services/news/newsitem/2016/06/23/one-year-of-efsi-what's-in-it-for-universities