Understanding Horizon 2020 Data: A Knowledge Graph-Based Approach

Abstract

This paper aims to meaningfully analyse the Horizon 2020 data existing in the CORDIS repository of EU, and accordingly offer evidence and insights to aid organizations in the formulation of consortia that will prepare and submit winning research proposals to forthcoming calls. The analysis is performed on aggregated data concerning 32,090 funded projects, 34,295 organizations participated in them, and 87,067 public deliverables produced. The modelling of data is performed through a knowledge graph-based approach, aiming to semantically capture existing relationships and reveal hidden information. The main contribution of this work lies in the proper utilization and orchestration of keyphrase extraction and named entity recognition models, together with meaningful graph analytics on top of an efficient graph database. The proposed approach enables users to ask complex questions about the interconnection of various entities related to previously funded research projects. A set of representative queries demonstrating our data representation and analysis approach are given at the end of the paper.