Official Journal of the European Union

C 399/90

(Case T-660/19)

(2019/C 399/109)

Language of the case: German

Parties

Applicant: Universität Bremen (Bremen, Germany) (represented by: Professor C. Schmid, Agent)

Defendants: European Commission and Research Executive Agency (REA)

Form of order sought

The applicant claims that the Court should:

—annul the decision of 16 July 2019 rejecting Proposal No 870693 (TenOpt), in the context of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, Call: H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019;

—order the defendants to pay the costs.

Pleas in law and main arguments

In support of its action, the applicant claims that the decision at issue infringes its right, derived from the rule of law, to have its request for funding reviewed without any errors of assessment. In particular, the applicant submits that the evaluation was vitiated by the following:

—distortion of the facts, that is to say that essential particulars of the request for funding were incorrectly reproduced in the evaluation;

—failure to comply with generally applicable assessment criteria;

—inequality of treatment, arbitrariness and irrelevant considerations.