european research council for operational reasons : 25 panels in 3 main domains pe: physical...

European Research Council

For operational reasons : 25 panels in 3 main domainsPE: Physical Sciences, Engineering (10 panels)

LS: Life Sciences (9 panels)

SH: Social Sciences and Humanities (6 panels)

Plus one horizontal domain: Interdisciplinary

Allocation of Call budget per domain as follows:

PE domain: 39% (40%)

LS domain: 34% (35%)

SH domain : 14% (15%)

Interdisciplinary domain: 13% (10%)

Within domains, indicative budget is allocated to panels on a demand basis► probability of success independent of panel

Scientific DomainsScientific Domains


Social Sciences and Humanities SH1 Individuals, institutions & markets SH2 Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour SH3 Environment & society SH4 The Human Mind and its complexity SH5 Cultures & cultural production SH6 The study of the human past

Physical Sciences & Engineering PE1 Mathematical foundations PE2 Fundamental constituents of matter PE3 Condensed matter physics PE4 Physical & Analytical Chemical sciences PE5 Materials & Synthesis PE6 Computer science & informatics PE7 Systems & communication engineering PE8 Products & process engineering PE9 Universe sciences PE10 Earth system science

Life Sciences LS1 Molecular & Structural Biology &

Biochemistry LS2 Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics &

Systems Biology LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology LS4 Physiology, Pathophysiology &

Endocrinology LS5 Neurosciences & neural disorders LS6 Immunity & infection LS7 Diagnostic tools, therapies & public health LS8 Evolutionary, population & environmental

biology LS9 Applied life sciences & biotechnology

ERC Panel Structure: 25 PanelsERC Panel Structure: 25 Panels


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Two step Evaluation

Step 1: •Only Part B1 is evaluated (PI and Project)•Evaluated by Panel Members and members of other panels (if interdisciplinary)•Proposals need to pass threshold to be retained to next Step •Only highly ranked proposals (and within 2-3 times the available budget for each Panel) are retained for step 2

Step 2

•Both Part B1 and B2 are evaluated against all three evaluation criteria•Proposals are evaluated by Panel Members and Remote Referees nominated by Panel Members


Scientific Excellence is the sole criterion

• Only the criteria published in the Call are applied

• Evaluation of excellence at 3 levels:• Quality of principal investigator• Quality of the research project• Quality of research environment (at step 2)

• Referees and panels evaluate and score criteria 1 & 2 numerically which results in the ranking of the projects:

• 1-4 per criterion• threshold ≥ 2 per criterion

• Criteria 3 is considered as "pass/fail"

4: oustanding3: excellent2: very good1: non-competitive

Evaluation on ExcellenceEvaluation on Excellence


Potential of the Principal Investigator: (last 10 years for AdG)

Quality of research output (track record, qualification, achievements, independence, reputation)

Intellectual capacity and creativity (collaborations, mentoring, challenge confrontation, initiative for new lines of thinking) and capacity to attract funding (AdG)

Quality of the research project:

Ground-breaking nature (challenges, ambition, trans-discipinarity, new concepts)

Potential impact (open new horizons, enhance frontier research in Europe)

Methodology (approach, timescale, resources, feasibility)

High risk/high gain balance (new or unconventional methodology, major breakthrough)

Research environment:

Contribution to the project (infrastructural and intellectual environment)

Participation of other legal entities (if added value to the proposal)

Evaluation CriteriaEvaluation Criteria


InterdisciplinarityInterdisciplinarity

• Novel interdisciplinary approaches can open potentials for new fields of science and can contribute to the excellence of a proposal

• To overcome traditional, discipline-based review systems in fairly evaluating interdisciplinary proposals

• ERC has a specific approach (mainstreaming; Interdisciplinary Domain):

•ERC panels may only loosely follow disciplinary lines•Proposals can be assigned to members of other panels and to freely-chosen referees to better match expertise•13% of the budget is allocated to an ‘Interdisciplinary Domain’


Review ProcessReview Process

Remote assessment by Panel members of section 1

Panel meeting

Proposals retained for step 2

STEP 1

Remote assessment by Panel members and reviewers of all sections

Panel meeting + interview (StG)

Ranked list of proposals

STEP 2

Consolidating Panel chairs meeting

Feedback toapplicants


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ERC Starting Grant: 2007, 2009, 2010 Submissions by call & domain

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4406

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- 72.7%

+ 14.8%


299 successful proposals

Awarded budgetabout € 335 million

559 proposals

8794 proposalsevaluated

(9167 submitted!)

Interviews

ERC Starting Grant 2007ERC Starting Grant 2007Two Step Evaluation ProcessTwo Step Evaluation Process

3.4% Success Rate*

*Based on evaluated proposals only

European Research Council ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call Eligible proposals by host country & gender Source: 8794 evaluated proposals

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Source: 300 proposals, 02.10.2008

ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call Selected proposals

by host countries




457 proposals

2392 proposalsevaluated

(2503 submitted)

Interviews

ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Two Step Evaluation ProcessTwo Step Evaluation Process

9.91% Success Rate*

*Based on evaluated proposals only


ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009 Submitted proposals by country of host institution & gender

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ERC Starting Grant: 2009 call

Successful proposalsby country of host institution

Source: 219 selected proposals


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Source: All submitted proposals (9167) and 300 selected proposals (02.10.2008)

ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call Success rate of host countries Relation between submitted proposals (9167) and 300 selected proposals (02.10.2008)

Italy

European Research Council European Research Council

Statistics 2009 Submissions by nationality of PI

Submissions of Italian PI:

20.5 % of European (population 12.6 %)

Submissions of Italian PI in Italian HI:

80 % of the submission from italian PI (bigger than in similar countries)




648 proposals

2034proposalsevaluated

(2167 submitted)

ERC Advanced Grant 2008ERC Advanced Grant 2008Two Step Evaluation ProcessTwo Step Evaluation Process

13.52% Success Rate


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ERC Advanced Grant: 2008 call Top 256 candidates

by host countries

Source: 256 selected proposals (29 Sept. 2008)

European Research Council ERC Starting and Advanced grants: Host institutions in Italy and number of grants

• Universita’ di Bologna (1)

• CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEO • PER I CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI SCARL (1)

• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (8)

• IFOM FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO FIRC DI ONCOLOGIA MOLECOLARE (2)

• Istituto Europeo di Oncologia S.r.l.(2)

• Politecnico di Milano (3)

• SISSA (2)

• Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (3)

• LUISS (1)• • European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (2)

• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (2)

• Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (2)

• Universita’ di Milano Bicocca (1)

•Universita’ di Napoli (2)

•Università degli Studi di Padova (2)• •Università degli studi di Parma (3)

•Universita’ di Pavia (2)

•Universita’ di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ (7)

•Universita’ di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ (2)•Universita di Roma Tre (2)

•Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA

•European Brain Research Institute

•Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor (4)

•Fondazione ISI

•Fondazione Telethon (2)

Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (3 grants)

Universita degli Studi di Firenze (2)…………

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