Engaging in international cooperation in research and innovation helps to access global pools of knowledge, research facilities, and complementary human capital, and contributes to efforts to effectively address regional or global challenges. Accessing funds from these programmes is highly competitive, and Austria’s approval rate (2.8% of all approvals in Horizon 2020 after half of the calls have been decided) indicate the high quality and international relevance of the country’s scientific research. While successful overall, there have been some problematic issues.