It is virtually impossible to generalize about the funding of DG research, partly because many organizations simply do not publish this information. The organizations that make this information publicly available, namely the EC and NSF, have wide variations among their projects, ranging from millions to thousands of dollars and spanning several months in duration to four years and more. The type of study, the number of involved entities, and the number of countries studied generally determine the amount, as well as the duration of project funding. Thus, we found best practice and case studies being fairly small in the amount of funding and duration, while large transnational projects that aim at developing a certain product or framework, are funded for longer periods and with larger amounts of money.