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How does Italy compare with its EU grouping benchmark?
EIC Accelerator Step 2 Full Proposal Statistics: Country Success Rates, Sector Odds, Gender Data, and Year Trends
Italy is counted in the EU-27 member grouping used by the article.
Italy's 16.1% success rate is measured against a 23.8% benchmark for that grouping. That is 7.7 percentage points below the overall full proposal success rate of 23.8%.