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Is there any publicly accessible information regarding the success rate of grant/project applications for science/technology and other research grant programs (e.g. NSF grants) and its variation over time?

I'm not interested in an exhaustive list but some illustrative examples would be much appreciated.

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  • here is a link I found from the NIH titled "Success Rates - NIH" : https://report.nih.gov/success_rates/index.aspx

    in addition, if I remember correctly, about 10% of all proposals are funded AND that about 30% of proposals were from first time proposers. I will look for the reference to both of these statistics. I believe they were from a lynda.com course for educational grants, which has great information for this topic: https://www.lynda.com/Higher-Education-tutorials/Grant-Writing-Education/196581-2.html

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Check out the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools. It may take you some time to find exactly what you're looking for, but there are numerous reports available, with a good deal of detail.

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It's surprisingly hard to find that information, I was expecting to get it more easily, in particular when public funding is involved. I've found for the European Union FP7-ICT call 1, there were 1836 proposals for only 318 accepted, with a total 1.2 billion euros funded (Source, slide 18).

I guess a good strategy could be to contact the Research Division of the European Commission, I'm sure they have this information somewhere, and they are probably able to provide it.