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Established by the European Commission

FP7 IDEAS Programme

The European Research Council :funding for top researchers

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Massimo Gaudina Head of Communication

ERC executive agency


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Doing research in Europe

ExcellenceFunding opportunitiesInnovation and businessCultureWorking life

"Destination Europe":why?


What is ERC

The European Research Council


�Support for the individual scientist – no networks!�Global peer-review�No predetermined subjects (bottom-up)�Support of frontier research in all fields of science

and humanities

The ERC supports excellence in frontier research th rough a bottom -up, individual-based, pan-European competition

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What is ERC?

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�Scientific governance: independent Scientific Council with 22 members; full authority over funding strategy�Support by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous)�Excellence as the only criterion

Budget: JPY 990 billion(2007-2013) - 141 billion JPY/year


After 6 years of existence…A success story

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� Highly recognised by the research community

� over 3 000 top researchers funded (65% are at an early-career stage); 58 nationalities represented

� Working in >500 different institutions in 29 countries

� Highly competitive (average success rate 12%)

� 50% of grantees in 50 institutions; “Excellence attracts excellence”

� Benchmarking effect, e.g. pan-European competition among researchers; EU value added

� Efficient and fast grant management


ERC Grants : how to get them


Starting Grants

starters (2-7 years after PhD)

up to JPY 264 Mio for 5 years

Advanced Grants track-record of

significant research achievements in the last 10 years

up to JPY 461 Mio

for 5 years

Synergy Grants

2 – 4 Principal Investigatorsup to JPY 2 billion for 6 years

Proof-of-Concept bridging gap between research - earliest

stage of marketable innovation up to JPY 20 Mio for ERC grant

holders

ERC Grant schemes

Consolidator

Grants

consolidators (7-12 years after PhD)

up to JPY 363 Mio for 5 years


ERC offers independence, recognition & visibility

• to work on a research topic of own choice , with a team of own choice

• to gain true financial autonomy for 5 years

• to negotiate with the host institution the best conditions of work

• to attract top team members (EU and non-EU) and collaborators

• to move with the grant to any place in Europe if necessary (portability of grants )

• to attract additional funding and gain recognition ; ERC is a quality label

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Creative freedom of the individual grantee


Flexibility : � Additional “start-up” funding for scientists moving to Europe

(JPY 66 Mio for Starting and JPY 132 Mio for Advanced grantees)

� Grantee can keep affiliation with home institute outside Europe (“significant part” of work time in Europe, at least 50%)

� Team members can be based outside Europe� Grantee can move within Europe with the grant

Negotiation:� Several European countries/host institutions assist applicants

and reward grantees with top-up funds or long-term professorships

Attractive featuresfor researchers from outside Europe


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Eligibility check

Step 1 (remote) evaluation on the basis of section of

proposal* by panel members

Proposals passing to step 2

Individual assessment of full proposals by panel members &

referees

AdG :2nd Panel meeting

Panel chairs´ meeting Consolidation of 3 main domains

rank lists

Submission of full proposals

Proposals selected for funding

Submission, evaluation and selectionStarting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants

*) Profile of PI, project extended synopsis

1st Panel meeting

StG, CoG: 2nd Panel

meeting incl. interviews of

applicants


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ERC funding process Peer Review EvaluationStarting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants

Panel Members are appointed by the ERC Scientific C ouncil

� 25 Panels covering all fields of science, technology and scholarship

� 3 sets of Panels : StG Panels, CoG Panels, AdG Panels

� Each Panel consists of the Panel Chairand 10-15 Panel Members

� Panel Chair oversees evaluation process for the proposals assigned to his/her panel in collaboration with the ERC staff

� Evaluation criteria:

Principal Investigator

�Intellectual capacity and creativity�Commitment

Research project

�Ground-breaking nature and potential impact�Methodology


Social Sciences & Humanities

6 panels

Individuals, institutions and marketsInstitutions, values, beliefs and behaviourEnvironment, space and populationThe Human MindCultures and cultural productionThe study of the human past

25 panels for all areas of science

Physical MathematicsSciences Fundamental constituents of matter& Condensed matter physicsEngineering Physical and analytical chemical sciences

Synthetic chemistry and materials10 panels Computer science and informatics

Systems and communication engineeringProducts and processes engineeringUniverse sciencesEarth system science

Life Molecular and structural biology and biochemistrySciences Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology

Cellular and developmental biology9 panels Physiology, pathophysiology and endocrinology

Neurosciences and neural disordersImmunity and infectionDiagnostic tools, therapies and public healthEvolutionary, population and environmental biologyApplied life sciences and biotechnology


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ERC Competitions 2007-2012

Data as of 19/11/2012

Evaluated* Fundedsuccess rates**

Starting Grant 2007 9.167 8.787 299 3,4

Starting Grant 2009 2.503 2.392 245 10,2

Starting Grant 2010 2.873 2.767 436 15,8

Starting Grant 2011 4.080 4.005 486 12,1

Starting Grant 2012 4.741 4.652 555 11,9

Starting Grant 23.364 22.603 2.021 10,7

Advanced Grant 2008 2.167 2.034 282 13,9

Advanced Grant 2009 1.584 1.526 245 16,1

Advanced Grant 2010 2.009 1.967 271 13,8

Advanced Grant 2011 2.284 2.245 301 13,4

Advanced Grant 2012*** 2.304 2.269 302 13,3

Advanced Grant 10.348 10.041 1.401 14,1

Proof of Concept 2011 - 1&2 151 139 51 36,7

Proof of Concept 2012 - 1&2 143 120 60 50,0

Proof of Concept 294 259 111 43,3 * withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account

** percentage of funded proposals in relation to evaluated proposals

*** selected

Total number of applications

received

of which


Evaluated proposals from researchers with non-ERA* nationalityERC Starting Grant calls 2009 – 2013* ERA = European Research Area

*) all submitted for StG2013


ERC grantees with a non-ERA nationality*ERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012 ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2012

Data as of 21/01/2013*) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator

TOTAL number of grantees with non-ERA nationality :153 StG and 79 AdG


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Attracting excellent researchersComposition of ERC teams (PIs not included)

Breakdown by nationality (97)(sample of 636 Starting and Advanced projects)

EU: 69% Assoc. Countries:

11% non-ERA: 17% unknown: 3%

Most non-ERA from China, US, India,

and Russia

50% of non-ERA

team members ''attracted'' to

Europe with the ERC grant


Future perspectivesHORIZON 2020 programme (2014-2020)

� HORIZON 2020 structure: − Excellent Science− Industrial leadership− Societal challenges−

� Excellent Science : reinforcing and extending the excellence of the EU’s science base and consolidating the European Research Area� European Research Council (budget proposal under H2020: JPY 1743

billion)

� Marie Sklodowska Curie

� Etc

First calls : end of 2013/beginning of 2014

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