The evaluation followed a two-stage procedure: For the stage-1 deadline of 17 February 2009, 608 proposals were submitted. In the stage-1 proposals an outline had to be given of the foreseen R&D work and the expected impact.
Following the evaluation of these proposals in March 2009, 115 proposals were invited to submit a full proposal for the stage-2 deadline of 22 July 2009. In the full proposal a total overview of the R&D work had to be presented, as well as information about the partners, management structure, impact and exploitation and the dissemination strategy.
115 full proposals were submitted in stage 2, and evaluated in September 2009. From the 115 evaluated proposals, 48 proposals reached all thresholds and were selected for funding. This represents an overall success rate of 42% in stage 2.

Detailed information about the three separate calls can be found in Table 1.

Table 2 gives an overview of the number of submitted and retained proposals for both stages. All topics have at least 2 retained proposals. Coordinators of these proposals will be invited for grant agreement negotiations.

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/research/industrial_technologies/lists/the-3rd-series-of-fp7-nmp-calls_en.html, as accessed on November 1, 2009