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European Research Council FP7 IDEAS Programme The European Research Council “ERC goes global” campaign Prof. Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General Visit to Japan July 2012 ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council

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  • European Research Council FP7 IDEAS Programme

    The European Research Council “ERC goes global” campaign

    Prof. Donald Dingwell

    ERC Secretary General

    Visit to Japan

    July 2012

    ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council

  • European Research Council

    What is ERC

    The European Research Council

  • 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 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

    http://www.francisplumbing.com/images/excellence.jpg

  • European Research Council

    10.8%

    4%

    7.3%

    15.1%

    17.8%

    21.6%

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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 %)

  • European Research Council

    ERC Structure

    The European Commission • Provides financing through the EU framework programmes

    • Guarantees autonomy of the ERC

    • Assures the integrity and accountability of the ERC

    • Adopts annual work programmes as established by the Scientific Council

    The ERC Executive Agency • Executes annual work programme as established by the Scientific Council

    • Implements calls for proposals and provides information and support to applicants

    • Organises peer review evaluation

    • Establishes and manages grant agreements

    • Administers scientific and financial aspects and follow-up of grant agreements

    • Carries out communications activities and ensures information dissemination to ERC stakeholders

    The ERC Scientific Council • 22 prominent researchers proposed by an independent identification committee

    • Appointed by the Commission (4 years, renewable once)

    • Establishes overall scientific strategy; annual work programmes (incl. calls for proposals, evaluation criteria); peer review methodology;

    selection and accreditation of experts

    • Controls quality of operations and management

    • Ensures communication with the scientific community

  • European Research Council

    ERC Scientific Council Members

    • Prof. Claudio BORDIGNON (Medicine) • Prof. Nicholas CANNY, (History) • Prof. Sierd A.P.L. CLOETINGH (Earth Sciences) • Prof. Mathias DEWATRIPONT (Economics) • Prof. Tomasz DIETL (Physics) • Prof. Daniel DOLEV (Computer Sciences) • Prof. Carlos M. DUARTE (Biology) • Prof. Daniel ESTEVE (Physics) • Prof. Pavel EXNER (Applied Mathematics & Mathematical Physics), ERC Vice President • Prof. Hans-Joachim FREUND (Physics & Physical Chemistry) • Prof. Carl-Henrik HELDIN (Molecular Cell Biology), ERC Vice President • Prof. Timothy HUNT (Biology) • Prof. Norbert KROO (Physics) • Prof. Maria Teresa LAGO (Astrophysics) • Prof. Henrietta L. MOORE (Social Anthropology) • Prof. Helga NOWOTNY (Science and Technology Studies), ERC President • Prof. Christiane NÜSSLEIN-VOLHARD (Genetics) • Prof. Alain PEYRAUBE (Linguistics) • Dr. Jens ROSTRUP-NIELSEN (Chemistry) • Prof. Mart SAARMA (Biology) • Prof. Anna TRAMONTANO (Biochemistry) • Prof. Isabelle VERNOS (Molecular and Cell Biology)

    Prof. Don Dingwell

    ERC Secretary General

  • European Research Council

    After 5 years of existence…

    A success story

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    Highly recognised by the research community

    ~2 600 top researchers funded (58% are at early-career

    stage); 53 nationalities represented

    Working in >480 different institutions in 26 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

  • European Research Council

    HORIZON 2020 structure:

    Excellence Science

    Industrial leadership

    Societal challenges

    EIT

    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 (proposed budget: 15 billion euro)

    Future and Emerging Technologies

    Marie Curie

    Research Infrastructures

    │ 8

    Future perspectives

    ERC’s role in the Innovation Union 2020

  • European Research Council

    ERC Grant schemes

    The European Research Council

  • European Research Council

    Starting Grants starters (2-7 years after PhD)

    consolidators (7-12 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

  • European Research Council

    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

  • European Research Council

    Flexibility:

    Additional “start-up” funding for scientists moving to Europe (EUR 500 000 for Starting and EUR 1 Million for Advanced grantees)

    Grantee can keep affiliation with home institute outside Europe (“significant part” of work time in Europe)

    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 features

    for researchers from outside Europe

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    ERC funding process Peer Review Evaluation Starting and Advanced Grants

    Panel Members are appointed by the ERC Scientific Council

    25 Panels covering all fields of science, technology and scholarship

    2 sets of Panels: StG Panels, AdG Panels

    Each Panel consists of the Panel Chair and 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

  • European Research Council

    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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    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

    Submission of

    full proposals

    Proposals

    selected for funding

    Submission, evaluation and selection Starting and Advanced Grants

    *) Profile of PI, project extended synopsis

    1st Panel meeting

    StG: 2nd Panel meeting

    incl. interviews

    of applicants

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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

    321308

    266

    194

    114105101

    85 81 7766 65

    55

    41 3627 21

    9 5 5 5 4 3 3

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    166 4 3

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    UK DE FR IT ES NL SE BE AT DK FI PL HU CZ PT EL IE RO BG CY SK LT EE SI CH IL NO TR RS HR IS US JP CA AU TW CL HK RU UA AR MX

    EU Member States Associated C. International

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    Country of Panel Member's Host Institution

    Based on the eight ERC StG and AdG calls 2007 - 2011

  • European Research Council

    Speeding up the discovery process: ERC Synergy grant

    2012 work programme on a pilot basis

    2 – 4 Principal Investigators; complementary skills, knowledge & resources; to jointly address frontier research problems

    Up to €15m for up to six years

    Based on ERC principles (no consortia, no networks):

    • bottom-up and risk-taking

    • driven by scientific demand

    • PIs expected to spend significant “core time” together

    • only one Host Institution, but groups not required to be physically located in the same place

    710 submissions to the first Synergy Call

  • European Research Council

    Initiated to help ERC grant-holder to bridge the gap

    between their research and the earliest stage of a

    marketable innovation

    Supporting grant-holders during the pre-

    demonstration

    Up to 150.000 Euro per grant

    One step evaluation

    First call in Autumn 2011 with 2 deadlines

    Next call in Spring 2012 (deadlines: 3 May and 3 October 2012)

    Frontier research and innovation: ERC Proof of Concept

  • European Research Council

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    ERC Competitions 2007-2011

    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 4,005 487 12.2

    Starting Grant 18,623 17,951 1,467 10.4

    Advanced Grant 2008 2,167 2,034 282 13.9

    Advanced Grant 2009 1,583 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 8,043 7,772 1,099 14.3

    Proof of Concept 2011 - 1 78 73 29 39.7

    Proof of Concept 2011 - 2*** 73 66 22 33.3

    Proof of Concept 151 139 51 36.5

    * 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

    Data as of 03/05/2012

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    International participation

    The European Research Council

  • European Research Council

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    Starting 2009 Starting 2010 Starting 2011 ER C 2 0 11

    6,2%

    8,2%

    8,8%

    6,3%

    5%

    7%

    9%

    2007 2009 2010 2011

    Starting grant

    Submitted proposals from researchers

    with non-ERA* nationality ERC Starting grant calls 2009 – 2011 * ERA = European Research Area

  • European Research Council European Research Council

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    Advanced 2008 Advanced 2009 Advanced 2010 Advanced 2011ER C 2 0 11

    5,4%5,4%

    6,3%

    6,0%

    5%

    7%

    2008 2009 2010 2011

    Advanced grant

    Submitted proposals from researchers

    with non-ERA* nationality ERC Advanced grant calls 2008 – 2011 * ERA = European Research Area

  • European Research Council

    Submitted applications from researchers resident in the country at the time of application

    Country StG calls AdG Calls All ERC calls

    Japan 22 5 27

    South Korea 5 1 6

    Taiwan 2 2

    Hong Kong 1 2 3

    Total: 30 8 38

    Submitted proposals from Japanese researchers ERC Starting grant calls 2007 - 2012

    ERC Advanced grant calls 2008 – 2012

    the applications of JP nationals have the host institution in UK (23),

    Germany (15), France (11), Sweden (6), other countries (27)

    Submitted applications from nationals

    Country* StG calls AdG Calls All ERC calls Life Sci Phys&Eng Soc&Hum

    Japan 68 14 82 28 46 8

    South Korea 31 1 32 11 11 10

    Taiwan 9 9 1 5 3

    Hong Kong 3 2 5 2 3

    Total: 111 17 128 40 64 24

    *) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator

    7 of the applicants that were resident

    in Japan at the time of application are

    nationals of the country

  • European Research Council

    ERC grantees with a non-ERA* nationality ERC Starting and Advanced Calls 2007 – 2011 * ERA = European Research Area

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    Starting

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    Advanced

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    Starting

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    35 13 9 7 8 7 4 4 1 13

    Advanced

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    40 3 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 6

    USA Australia Russia Canada Japan India Argentina China S. Korea Others

    TOTAL number of grantees with non-ERA nationality :

    101 StG and 57 AdG

    *) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator

  • European Research Council

    ERC Grantees with Japanese nationality ERC Starting Calls 2007 – 2011

    ERC Advanced Calls 2008 - 2011

    ERC grantees

    Country* Host Institution HI Country ERC call Domain Grantees

    EMBL DE Life Sciences

    Institute of Molecular Biotechnology AT Life Sciences

    Norwegian University of S&T NO Life Sciences

    University of Portsmouth UK Phys Sci & Eng

    CEA FR Phys Sci & Eng

    University of Edinburgh UK Life Sciences

    University of Leuven BE Phys Sci & Eng

    University College London UK Life Sciences

    Japan 8

    StG-2007

    StG-2010

    StG-2011

    *) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator

  • European Research Council

    ERC Grantees with Japanese nationality Project examples (I)

    Dr. Kazufumi MOCHIZUKI Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (Austria)

    ERC Starting Grant RNA directed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena

    How can cells distinguish

    junk from precious DNA?

    Evidence suggests that

    small RNAs act as

    security guards to

    identify transposable

    elements. However,

    many remains unknown

    about how these small

    RNAs are produced, how

    they patrol the genome,

    and how they induce

    heterochromatin.

    Dr. Kazuya KOYAMA Reader in Cosmology at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth (UK)

    ERC Starting Grant Modified Gravity as an Alternative to Dark Energy

    The recent accelerated expansion of the universe originates from

    dark energy or alternatively, by a large-distance modification to the

    general relativity. The project purpose is to construct consistent

    models for modified gravity and to develop efficient ways to combine

    observational data sets to distinguish between the two models.

  • European Research Council

    ERC Grantees with Japanese nationality Project examples (II)

    The project objective is to explore low-temperature novel

    phenomena of heavy fermion systems. It will focus on:

    (1) new materials and high quality single crystals,

    (2) precise temperature-pressure-field phase diagrams,

    (3) quantum singularities and Fermiology,

    (4) the mechanism of unconventional superconductivity,

    (5) field-induced phenomena.

    Many critical photo-chemical and photo-

    physical processes depend on an efficient

    light-matter interaction.

    The project aims to drastically increase the

    activities of (photo)catalysts, enabling their

    efficient operation under sunlight or even in

    weak room light conditions.

    Prof. Hiroshi UJII Associate Professor at the

    University of Leuven

    (Belgium)

    ERC Starting Grant

    Plasmonics-based

    Energy Harvesting

    for Catalysis

    Dr. Dai AOKI Researcher at the Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogenics, CEA (France)

    ERC Starting Grant

    Novel materials and extreme conditions to open new

    frontiers in heavy fermion physics

  • European Research Council

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

    Note: Researchers residing outside ERA at the time of application

    Country of residence International grantees ERA nationals Total

    Argentina 1 1

    Australia 1 2 3

    Brazil 1 1

    Canada 1 1 2

    Japan 1 1 2

    Korea 1 1

    USA 13 51 64

    Total 18 56 74

    2 grantees with residence in Japan at the time of application:

    1 Japanese and 1 Czech national

  • European Research Council

    Team members: internationalisation a sample of 383 on-going projects

    about 2200 team members without principal investigators

    • Breakdown by nationality (77):

    BE; 2,4

    DE; 10,8

    ES; 4,9

    FR; 9,7

    FI; 3,0

    IT; 13,0

    NL; 3,7PL; 1,8SE; 2,5UK; 4,4

    Others EU; 11,3

    IL; 8,4

    Others Associated; 1,7CN; 2,9

    India; 2,3

    Others non Associated; 9,3 Unknow n/Double; 3,3

    US; 2,4

    CH; 2,4

    EU: 67% Assoc. Countries: 13% Other Countries: 17% Unknown: 3%

  • European Research Council

    South Africa March 2012

    India 2013

    Brazil, Chile May 2012

    China 2013

    Japan , S.-Korea, Taiwan,

    Hong Kong 2012

    Russia 2012

    Singapore, Australia,

    New Zealand 2013

    Canada Feb.2012

    US South West

    & Mexico 2012

    US East Coast 2013

    Attracting excellent researchers worldwide

    ”ERC goes global” campaign

    targeting top and emerging research locations

  • European Research Council

    Global researchers Example

    ERC Project: “TRACSYMBOLS”

    http://tracsymbols.eu/home/

    South African professor

    Christopher S. Henshilwood,

    appointed Professor of African

    Archaeology at the University of

    Bergen, Norway in 2007,

    received an ERC Advanced Grant

    in 2009

    He also holds a complementary

    Research Professorship and

    Research Chair at the

    University of the Witwatersrand,

    South Africa

  • European Research Council

    More information on ERC

    Ideas NCPs http://erc.europa.eu/national-contact-points

    ERC Website http://erc.europa.eu

    ERC Helpdesk http://erc.europa.eu/about-erc/links

    Quarterly ERC e-newsletter and e-News Alerts

    Euraxess-Jobs http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/index

    New ERC calls Expected Publication Deadline

    Starting 2013 10 July 2012 17 Oct. 2012

    Consolidator 2013 7 Nov. 2012 21 Feb. 2013

    Advanced 2013 10 July 2012 22 Nov. 2012

    Synergy 2013 10 Oct. 2012 10 Jan. 2013

    PoC 2013 10 Jan. 2013 24 April 2013

    3 Oct. 2013

  • European Research Council

    Thank you!

    The European Research Council

  • European Research Council

    Proposal structure

    The European Research Council

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    • Single submission

    “1 stage, 2 step” evaluation

    • Electronic submission via EPSS only

    • Deadlines strictly enforced

    • Proposals have two parts:

    Part A: Administrative forms

    • Structured information

    Part B: Scientific proposal itself

    • Free form pdf file

    Submission of proposals

  • European Research Council

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    Proposal structure: Part A

    Part A: “Administrative forms” containing

    A1 Structured information on proposal, PI and contact details of host institution

    A2 Information on Host Institution

    A3 Budget table

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    Proposal Structure: Part B Starting and Advanced Grants

    • Section 1 = The Principal Investigator and a synopsis of the proposal

    • Scientific Leadership potential (1 page)

    • Early achievements track-record (2 pages)

    • CV (including “funding ID”) (2 pages)

    • 10-year track record (2 pages)

    • Extended synopsis (5 pages)

    • Section 2 = Full Scientific proposal (15 pages, not accessible for referees in step 1!)

    • Ethical Review information (where appropriate)

    • Host Institution Support Letter (compulsory)

    AdG

    StG

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    Submission to Panels

    • Proposals are submitted to a Targeted Panel (of PI's choice)

    Can flag one “Secondary Review Panel”

    • Applicant chooses his/her panel, this panel is “responsible” and takes ownership for the evaluation of the particular proposal

    • Switching proposals between panels not possible unless clear mistake on part of applicant, or due to the necessary expertise being available in a different panel

    • Switching proposals between domains (deadlines) not possible at all.

    • But: In case of cross-panel or cross-domain proposals, evaluation by members of other panels possible

  • European Research Council

    Statistics on ERC calls

    The European Research Council

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    Submitted proposals by domain

    ERC Starting grant calls 2007 - 2012

    4406

    11121205

    1690

    2058

    3399

    9271030

    1440

    1653

    1362

    464

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    Starting Grant

    Physical Sciences and Engineering

    Life Sciences

    Social Sciences and Humanities

    ERC 2012

    9,167

    2,503

    2,874

    4,080

    -73%

    +15%

    +42%

    4,741

    +16%

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    Submitted proposals by domain

    ERC Advanced grant calls 2008 - 2012

    997

    736

    902 917

    773766

    512

    621

    789

    978

    404

    335

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    Advanced Grant

    Physical Sciences and Engineering

    Life Sciences

    Social Sciences and Humanities

    ERC 2012

    2,167

    1,583

    2,009-27%

    +27%

    2,284+14%

    2,304+1%

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    Rising applications

    +15%

    +42%

    +16%

    -27%

    +27%

    +14% +1%

    +79%+25%

    +10%

    -5% +21% +12% +3%

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    Funded projects ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 – 2011

    299

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    436

    487

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    271301

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    -18%

    +78%

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    Success rates ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2011

    succes rates ERC calls

    3.4

    10.2

    15.8

    12.2

    13.9

    16.1

    13.8 13.4

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    Success rates per country of Host Institution ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2011

    Success rates per country of HI

    15 1414 13

    12

    109 9

    88

    7 6 6 65 4

    3 3 32

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    Advanced Grant

    Staring Grant

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    ERC grant distribution per country of

    Host Institution ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 – 2011

    2566 projects have been selected, one fifth

    corresponding to women PIs.

    *) Host institution refers to the organisation with which the first grant agreement was signed.

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    International exchange of researchers ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2011

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    Data as of 03/05/2012

    Country Higher-Education Institution No StG AdG Total

    UK University of Cambridge 1 44 32 76

    UK University of Oxford 2 38 34 72

    CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne 3 27 25 52

    IL Hebrew University of Jerusalem 4 28 17 45

    CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) 5 14 29 43

    UK University College London 6 23 19 42

    UK Imperial College 6 22 20 42

    IL Weizmann Institute 7 21 18 39

    BE University of Leuven 8 19 8 27

    UK University of Bristol 9 9 15 24

    DE University of Munich 10 8 15 23

    NL Leiden University 10 12 11 23

    CH University of Zurich 10 10 13 23

    UK University of Edinburgh 10 11 12 23

    FI University of Helsinki 11 12 9 21

    NL University of Amsterdam 11 13 8 21

    IL Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 12 17 3 20

    SE Karolinska Institute 12 11 9 20

    Country Research Organisation No StG AdG Total

    FR National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) 1 86 38 124

    DE Max Planck Society 2 33 29 62

    FR French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission 3 23 6 29

    FR National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) 4 18 10 28

    FR National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) 5 12 8 20

    ES Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 5 14 6 20