Integration of social sciences and humanities in Horizon 2020 : participants, budget and disciplines : 3rd monitoring report on SSH flagged projects funded in 2016 under the societal challenges and industrial leadership priorities

The integration of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) in Horizon 2020 is an important feature of the programme. This third monitoring report assesses in a thorough and detailed manner how the different SSH disciplines have been integrated into the projects funded in 2016 under the Societal Challenges and the Industrial Leadership priorities. Results based on 2016 data are presented showing to what extent the SSH is involved when it comes to for example budget, disciplines, countries and sectors. Results in the two previous reports were fairy similar as they were both part of the same Strategic Programme 2014-15. This report using 2016 data is the first covering the second Strategic Programme of 2016-17. Overall results are fairly stable, but in quantitative terms along some dimensions SSH Integration in 2016 dropped since the year before. However, results vary depending on the Work Programme part in question and for example in Societal Challenge 5 (Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials) and LEIT ICT the level of SSH Integration increased substantially from 2015 to 2016. A novelty in this year's report is that data on the European Research Council (ERC) have been included. This has been done to get a broader understanding of how the SSH feature throughout Horizon 2020. Non-flagged topics in the above mentioned pillars are not looked at and there are still other parts of Horizon 2020 that are not included. Therefore, this report is not intended to capture the whole picture, but rather it aims at presenting an indication on how SSH is integrated in the programme - based on a selection of indicators and parameters.