Table 3.

Obstacles and barriers specific to EU13 countries

Question		Year
Topic	Barrier	% detected in 2020	% detected in 2021	% detected in 2023
Development, improvement and translation of RD research results	Funding	83%	89%	90%
	Difficulties in accessing to national resources for funding of research and development of RD projects	50%	56%	80%
	Lack of options for exploitation of research results at national level	50%	40%	20%
	Language	17%	11%	0%
Participation in EU/international projects in the RD field	Limited links to potential partners	100%	78%	40%
	Lack of information on funding opportunities	67%	56%	40%
	Bureaucratic application on responding procedures	50%	50%	80%
	Quality of support provided by national contact points	50%	44%	50%
	Limited skills on drafting proposals	33%	22%	–
	Irrelevance of programme topics and goals to own research agenda	17%	22%	10%

% detected % of countries finding the barrier present, – not asked that year, RD rare diseases