The kick-off of Horizon 2020 offers a good opportunity for evaluating the 7^th Framework Programme (FP7). We will do this through a report that will be published during the CNR’s workshop held in Rome, on February 11^th. This report will be mainly focused on the performance and numbers of Italian contractors that, in the last seven years, manage to get a European grant. Such data will be updated to December 2013, thus close to the end of the Programme.