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Established by the European Commission

FP7 IDEAS Programme

The European Research Council

ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council


What is ERC



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 through

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: € 7.5billion (2007-2013) - 1.1 billion €/year on average

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FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion; Increase by € 250 M/year

Co-operation (65 %)

Ideas

(15 %)

People (9 %)

Capacities

(8 %) JRC non-

nuclear (3 %)


ERC prospects for the future Rising applications


Future perspectives

HORIZON 2020

HORIZON 2020 structure:

Excellent Science

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

EIT; Spreading excellence and widening participation; Science with

and for society

JRC

Excellent Science: reinforcing and extending the excellence of the

EU’s science base and consolidating ERA to make EU’s R&I system

more competitive on a global scale

European Research Council (budget under H2020: € 13 billion)

Future and Emerging Technologies

Marie Curie

Research Infrastructures │ 6


Budget Horizon 2020 after negotiations between

Parliament-Council-Commission

Co-operation (65 %)

Ideas (15 %)

People (9 %)

Capacities (8 %) JRC non-

nuclear (3 %)

FP7 budget € 50.5 billion

ERC budget € 7.5 billion

H2020 budget € 77 billion

ERC budget € 13 billion


ERC Grant schemes



Starting Grants

starters

(2-7 years after PhD)

up to € 2.0 Mio

for 5 years

Advanced Grants track-record of

significant research

achievements in the

last 10 years

up to € 3.5 Mio

for 5 years

Synergy Grants 2 – 4 Principal Investigators

up to € 15.0 Mio for 6 years

Proof-of-Concept bridging gap between research - earliest

stage of marketable innovation up to €150,000 for ERC grant holders

ERC Grant schemes

Consolidator Grants

consolidators

(7-12 years after PhD)

up to € 2.75 Mio

for 5 years


Researchers career development

and complementary funding schemes

Post-docs

Senior Professor

Students

Post Graduates

Junior Professor/ Junior Researcher

Associated Professor

Full Professor

Erasmus

Marie Curie

ERC Advanced

ERC Starters

ERC Consolidators

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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


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ERC funding process Peer Review Evaluation Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants

Panel Members are appointed by the ERC Scientific Council

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 Chair and 11-15 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 markets

Institutions, values, beliefs and

behaviour

Environment, space and population

The Human Mind

Cultures and cultural production

The study of the human past

25 panels for all areas of science

Physical Mathematics

Sciences Fundamental constituents of matter

& Condensed matter physics

Engineering Physical and analytical chemical sciences

Synthetic chemistry and materials

10 panels Computer science and informatics

Systems and communication engineering

Products and processes engineering

Universe sciences

Earth system science

Life Molecular and structural biology and biochemistry

Sciences Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology

Cellular and developmental biology

9 panels Physiology, pathophysiology and endocrinology

Neurosciences and neural disorders

Immunity and infection

Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health

Evolutionary, population and environmental biology

Applied life sciences and biotechnology


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International participation to proposals evaluation

* Number of instances that experts of a certain country of origin are contributing to the ERC peer review


After 6 years of existence…

A success story

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Highly recognised by the research community

Over 3 800 top researchers funded; 61 nationalities

Working in > 500 different institutions in 29 countries

Over 6 billion euro awarded

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


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ERC Competitions Evaluated* Funded success 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 4,652 566 12.2

Starting Grant 2013 3,329 3,255 287 8.8

Starting Grant 26,693 25,858 2,319 10.4

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 2,269 321 14.1

Advanced Grant 10,348 10,041 1,420 14.3

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

Synergy Grant 2012 710 697 11 1.6

* withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account

** percentage of funded proposals in relation to evaluated proposals

Total number

of applications

of which

Data as of 15/07/2013


International participation



Evaluated proposals from researchers

with non-ERA* nationality ERC Starting Grant calls 2009 – 2013 (including Consolidator 2013) * ERA = European Research Area

*) all submitted for StG and CoG 2013


European Research Council Evaluated proposals from researchers

with non-ERA* nationality ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2013 * ERA = European Research Area

*) all submitted for AdG2013


Submitted proposals by Chinese researchers ERC Starting grant calls 2007 - 2013 (including Consolidator)

ERC Advanced grant calls 2008 – 2013

14 Chinese applicants were resident in China at the

time of application. None of them won an ERC grant.

197 applied from various European countries (73

from UK, 35 from Germany, 22 from Sweden etc),

7 from North America (US and Canada), and 2 from

Asian countries.

StG calls AdG calls All ERC calls LifeSci Phys&Eng Soc&Hum

212 8 220 54 145 21

Evaluated applications from Chinese researchers

(all submitted for 2013 calls)

UK 76

Germany 38

Sweden 25

Finland 12

France 12

NL 12

Denmark 11

Switzerland 8

Italy 6

Norway 6

Ireland 5

Other 9

Total 220

Country of Host Inst


ERC grantees with a non-ERA nationality* ERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2013

ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2012

*) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator Data as of 15/07/2013

TOTAL number of grantees with non-ERA nationality :

187 StG and 80 AdG


Grantees with Chinese nationality ERC Starting Calls 2007 – 2013

ERC Advanced Calls 2008 - 2012

7 Chinese grantees

(one woman)

Nationality* Project main topic HI country** ERC call Domain ERC grantees

Optics and quantum optics DE Phys&Eng 1

Neuro-, psycho-, sociolinguistics NL Soc&Hum 1

Structural properties of materials DE StG-2009 Phys&Eng 1

Catalysis - homogeneous and heterogeneous CH StG-2010 Phys&Eng 1

Control engineering NL

New materials: oxides, alloys, composite, organic-

inorganic hybrid, nanoparticles, nanotubes,

superconductors

DE

Cryptology, security, privacy, quantum crypto UK

TOTAL 7

Phys&Eng 3

*) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator **) current host institution (as of 28/08/2013)

China

StG-2007

StG-2012


Few grantees from outside ERA Mainly researchers moving/returning from the US

Note: Researchers residing outside the European Research Area at the time of application

Country of residence International grantees ERA nationals Total

Argentina 1 1

Australia 1 3 4

Canada 1 2 3

India 1 1

Japan 1 1

Korea 1 1

Lebanon 1 1

Russia 1 1

USA 24 70 94

Total 29 78 107


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Developing a new generation of excellent scientists 2/3 of staff are people in the training phase of their career

Analysis of 995 ERC projects


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Attracting excellent researchers Composition of ERC teams (PIs not included)

Analysis of 995 Starting and Advanced Grants

EU: 67%

Assoc. Countries: 12%

non-ERA: 18%

unknown: 3%

53% of non-ERA team members ''attracted'' to Europe with the ERC grant (10% of all team members)

Most non-ERA from China, US, India,

and Russia


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