Winners of the game: the FP7 and H2020 Death Stars

The FP7 and H2020 stable partnership graphs are very cohesive. Both display cores of highly connected nodes that are also densely connected to each other. To discover them, we computed a full decomposition of both networks into k-cores. Both cores for the maximal value of k turned out to be unusually large and densely connected. This is an indicator of assortativity (high-degree nodes connect preferentially with other high-degree nodes) and clustering (a node’s neighbours are connected with high probability). We have come to call these cores the Death Stars of FP7 and H2020. The FP7 Death Star includes 44 organisations connected by 908 edges; the H2020 one includes 78 organisations connected by 2,778 edges.

There is a high continuity between the Death Stars of the two framework programmes. 21 organisations already in the FP7 Death Star are also in the H2020 one.

Name	projects	stable partners
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E V	1,177	1,931
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE	1,613	1,597
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE	710	1,246
COMMISSARIAT A L’ ENERGIE ATOMIQUE	649	1,159
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO	409	936
AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS	650	927
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT EV	425	899
VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND	422	840
DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET	401	821
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN	559	802
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE	643	734
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD	708	716
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER	379	698
MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E V	658	696
FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION	351	683
JRC JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPEAN COMMISSION	291	664
UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE	312	649
EIDGENOSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZURICH	484	649