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ERC Funding in the Humanities
Justyna Olko
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
University of Warsaw
Our project
Europe and America in Contact:
A multidisciplinary study of cross-cultural
transfer in the New World across time
2012-2017, ERC Starting Grant
Short video
http://www.uw.edu.pl/zderzenie-kultur/
A comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of contact-
induced language and culture change in the Americas
(1519-present)
DECIDING TO WRITE AN ERC GRANT
PROPOSAL
• Who decides?
• Why possible applicants are discouraged?
• Seeking support
• Myths and facts: differences between Polish/ERC
evaluating criteria
Preparation of a successful proposal
A novel idea for the research project
• Can be derived from or based on earlier research
experience or a specific project
• Bridging disciplinary boundaries (� which ERC
panel should be selected?)
• Possible sources of innovation: thematic scope,
problem to solve, methodology, research practices,
or a novel combination of all of them
A novel idea for the research project
My approach
• Bridging existing thematic and disciplinary boundaries
• A problem-oriented approach, not a disciplinary
approach
• Innovative and experimental/high-risk methodology
• multidisciplinary approach
• deconstructing the boundary between the
informant and the anthropologist
• situating indigenous students as protagonists in
academic activities
• Experimental team
Preparation of a successful proposal
• Constructing your research record and profile as
a potential PI (long-term development, well-
planed publication strategy, but also a successful
presentation, importance of self-confidence!)
• Creating an international research network
• Gathering your team
Warsaw UniversityInstituto de Docencia e
Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas (IDIEZ, Mexico)
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
Collaborating institutions:Univ. Complutense de Madrid (Spain)Colegio Mexiquense (Mexico)Univ. Autonoma de Tlaxcala (Mexico)University of Texas in Austin (USA)University of Oregon in Eugene (USA)Central Michigan University (USA)
Our basic research network
Preparation of a successful proposal
• Writing: finding balance between an expert approach
and an understandable presentation (gather feedback
from experts in your area, specialists in other domains,
experts at the National Contact Point and your
institution’s research office)
• Give enough attention to detail, but also emphasize a
more general innovative potential and impact
• There is no ready-made answer: formulate and
implement your original approach
• Importance of a personal interview (training in self-
presentation is extremely useful!)
After your receive a grant …
• Be prepared to face bureaucratic and legal hurdles, right from
the negotiation phase and through the project’s
implementation at your institution
• No way to avoid a project manager role with some
administrative duties (but as Polish institutions become more
experienced in handling ERC/EC funding, more procedures
are tested and successfully applied)
• Negotiate the conditions of support and grant administration
at your department/institution before the project starts!
• Remain flexible and critical as regards the transformation of
the research strategy and/or the shape of your team (changes
during ERC grants are possible and much easier than under
national funding)
Augmenting research potential:
Combining research-oriented and applied projects
(still uncommon in the humanities)
Our example:
• Close collaboration and exchange between the ERC-funded
research and the project Endangered languages:
Comprehensive models for research and revitalization (2013-
2016) (National Program for the Development of Humanities)
• Deals with three minority languages: Nahuatl in Mexico and
Wymysiöeryś and Lemko in Poland
• Oriented toward developing and implementing specific
cultural and educational strategies
www.revitalization.al.uw.edu.pl
ERC Funding in the Humanities
Justyna Olko
Faculty of “Artes Liberales”
University of Warsaw
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