European Research Council

FP7 IDEAS ProgrammeThe European Research CouncilThe European Research Council… and its funding schemes.

Claudio Bordignon

Member of the ERC Scientific

Council

“il ruolo dell’ERC nello sviluppo della ricerca europea”

Insieme per la Ricerca

Università Luigi BocconiMilano, 21 settembre 2009

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European Research Council

ERC Grant schemesERC Grant schemes3R and 2 schemes

Aim: Retain – Repatriate – Recruit

� Favour “brain gain” and “reverse brain drain”

� improve career opportunities and independence - especially for young researchers

� increase competition, recognition and international visibility -

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� increase competition, recognition and international visibility -for excellent individual scientists and scholars in Europe

� Raise aspiration and achievement of basic research in Europe -comparability/benchmark for researchers and research systems

Activities: Two complementary funding schemes

� ERC Starting Grant (StG): attract & retain the next generation of independent research leaders - up to € 2.0 Mio for 5 years

� ERC Advanced Grant (AdG): attract & reward established independent research leaders - up to € 3.5 Mio for 5 years

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ERC Grant schemesERC Grant schemesWho can apply? – General requirements

1. Principal Investigator (PI)

� Nationality, age or current place of work not relevant

2. In conjunction with a Host organisation

� To be located in MS or AC

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� To be located in MS or AC

3. Frontier Research Project

� All fields of science, engineering and scholarship are eligible (investigator-driven, bottom-up)

4. Individual research team

� PI has freedom to choose National or trans-national character, if scientific added value proven

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� ERC covers all fields of science, engineering and scholarship

� For operational reasons the ScC agreed on 3 main research

domains + interdisciplinary research:

� Physical Sciences & Engineering – 10 Panels

ERC Grant schemesERC Grant schemesAll fields, budget pre-allocation in 3 + 1 areas

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� Physical Sciences & Engineering – 10 Panels

� Life Sciences (incl. medical) – 9 Panels

� Social Sciences & Humanities – 6 Panels

� Interdisciplinary Research (cross-panel / cross-domain) –Panel Chairs meeting

� The call budget will be pre-allocated to these areas as follows:

� 39% - 34% - 14% - 13%

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ERC BudgetERC Budget

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Financials Financials

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National R&D funding and ERC grants

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Comparison:Comparison:

ERC Starting Grant 2007 & 2009 callsERC Starting Grant 2007 & 2009 calls

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ERC Starting Grant: 2007 callSubmitted 9167 proposals

by host countries5

132

294

542

92236

207

17

5

11

172

477

1038

1144

│ 10

568

1831625

339181

199

48

130183

6

294207

84

40

21

2040

153201

38

1038

728

1

© ERC 2009: StG 07-299

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2

58

1127

17

4

11

31

ERC Starting Grant: 2007 callSuccessful proposals

by country of host institutionSource: 299 selected proposals

│ 11

252

38

25

4

24

1

6

11

1

415

2

31

StG 07-299, 05 Dec. 2008

European Research Council ERC StG 2007 & 2009Distribution of projects by host country Source: 299 StG 07; 237 StG 09 proposals

15

20

Starting grant 2007

Starting grant 2009

0

5

10

UK FR DE ES NL IT IL CH BE SE FI DK AT HU EL PT IE PL CY EE BG CZ NO

Country of host institution

% of grantees

ERC 2009: StG-07-299/StG-09-237

European Research Council ERC StG 2007 & 2009Distribution of grantees per nationalitySource: 299 StG 07; 237 StG 09 proposals

12

14

Starting Grants 2007

Starting Grants 2009

0

2

4

6

8

10

DE IT FR UK NL ES IL BE SE FI HU EL US CH AT DK PT IE PL JP CY AR CN TR AU CZ NO RO CA RU SL SK EE KR MX SG UA AL

Nationality of grantee

% of grantees

ERC 2009: StG-07-299/StG-09-237

European Research Council ERC StG 2007/2009 & AdG 2008/2009 Submitted proposals

StG 07 AdG 08

StG 09 AdG 09

1038 179

256 145

477 65

86 64

236 70

49 22

207 71

34 23

1144 299

347 306

92 29

30 18

132 16

29 1617 2

4 1

5 2

2 1

11 4

2 3

172 33

47 30

294 63

542 107

134 80

6 1

5 5

0 3

728 206

228 159

568 135

227 95

1625 301

434 220

181 43

43 17

339 92

90 31

153 42

52 37

201 96

61 102

48 22

7 7

38 7

9 2199 141

80 79

130 32

26 21

21 2

1 0

183 28

26 18

183 17

42 10

95 36 84 29

28 11

40 15

19 8

1 1

1 0

40 4

4 4

20 4

6 3

6 1

0 0

0 2

0 1

0 1

0 0

0 0

0 1

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ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008 Grantees by nationality

50

60

70

80

Num

ber

of G

rant

ees

Advanced grant 08

Starting grant 07

Total population DE :

82 Mio

│ 15StG-07:299; AdG-08:275

0

10

20

30

40

50

DE UK FR IT NL IL ES SE BE FI US AT CH EL HU DK PL PT AU CA CY JP NO TR IE AR BG CN CZ IS RO RU SI SK

Nationality

Num

ber

of G

rant

ees

Total population IL :

7.4 Mio

Total population CH :

7.6 Mio

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2

4

6

8

10

12

Success rates in %

ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008 Success rate by host country (i.e. ratio submitted – selected proposals)

ERC Starting Grant 2007

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

SE UK AT NL FR DE FI DK ES BE IT PT EL CY HU BG CZ PL CH IS IL NO TR

EU - 15 EU - 12 Assoc. C.

Sucess rate in %

0FR UK NL ES BE DE FI AT DK SE IT IE EL PT CY HU BG CZ IL CH NO

EU - 15 EU - 12 Assoc. C.

ERC Advanced Grant 2008

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ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008 Origin of grantees

80

90

100

110Relocation

Staying non-Europeans

Staying Europeans (non-citizens)

Staying Citizens

1

1

SE

TR

3

2

1

1

US

DE

IT

FR

│ 17

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

UK FR DE NL IT CH ES IL SE BE FI AT HU EL DK PT CY NO CZ IE BG PL TR IS

Country of host institution

No.

of G

rant

ees

8

3

3

3

1

1

1

1

DE

FR

AT

IT

BE

ES

FI

NL

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EU &

AC

20614

ERC StG 2007 & 2009Submissions from researchers resident outside EU & AC Source: 11670 submitted proposals (9167 + 2503)

262

7

13

2

2

19

3

2

2

2

3

3

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Bosnia

2

Belarus 8

Hong Kong

1

Morocco

2 Pakistan

2

Thailand

1

Cisjordanie 1

Viet Nam

2

ERC StG 2007 & 2009Submissions from nationals of “third countries”

Note: 740 proposals

Iran 1

Kazakhstan

1

USA

116

Russia

139

India

53

Ukraine

40

Canada

36

Japan

24

Mexico

12

Korea

10

Taiwan 5

Cuba

5

Bangladesh

5

Tunisia

8Algeria

7

China

61Egypt

4

Armenia

4Uzbekistan

3Lebanon

3

Congo

1

Colombia

2

Ethiopia 1

Kenya 1

Mauritius

1

Malawi

1

Nigeria

1Philippines

1Togo

1

1

Tanzania 1

2

South Africa

2

Zimbabwe 1

Source: STG 07 and StG 2009: 9167 submitted proposals

Australia

35

Brasilia

21

Malaysia

5Singapore

8

New Zealand

8

Peru

4

Venezuela

4 Sri Lanka

3

Uruguay

3

Chile

3

Argentina

18

European Research Council ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008 Top twenty most successful Host Institutions(ranked by total budget of grants received)

1. CNRS2. University of Oxford3. EPF Lausanne4. Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine5. Weizmann Institute of Science6. University of Cambridge7. Max Planck Society8. ETH Zurich 9. University of Helsinki 10. University College London11. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem12. University of Nijmegen13. Karolinska Institute14. University of Edinburgh15. Free University of Amsterdam 16. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology17. Catholic University Leuven18. University of Genève19. Institute National de la Santé et de la Recherché Medical20. University of St Andrews

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