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FP7 ERC UPDATE: WP2008 characteristics, priorities, specific elements (AdG)
Theodore Papazoglou, PhD
ERC/European Commission
RTD, Directorate S
European Research Council
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Basic / Frontier researchBasic / Frontier researchin Europein Europe
National activities:─ Research councils (DFG-1920, CNR-1923, CNRS-1939,
SNF-1952), academies, etc. Intergovernmental activities:
─ CERN (1953), ESO (1962), ESA (1962/1975), EMBO (1963), ILL (1967), COST (1971), ESF (1974), EMBL (1978), Eureka (1985), ITER (1988), ESRF (1988), INTAS (1993)
EU activities (“supranational”): ─ ECSC – Euratom – EC (1957), JRC (1959), JET (1973),
FP1 (1984) … FP7 (2006-2013)─ European Research Area – ERA (2000)─ FP7 (2006-2013): Ideas/ERCIdeas/ERC, Marie Curie fellowships,
research infrastructures, thematic priority areas
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ERC, “Ideas” and FP7ERC, “Ideas” and FP7
A new “institution”
Which is also part of the “family” of FP7: Co-operation
IdeasIdeas
People
Capacities
Complementary to other FP7 support to targeted research (bottom-up vs. targeted research)
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FP7 Ideas ProgrammeFP7 Ideas Programme
Creates ERC
Provides funding─ Budget (2007-2013) : € 7.51 bn (around 15% of FP7 budget)
─ Average budget: € ~1 bn per year
Sets overall objectives for researchand operating principles
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Strategy & ActivitiesStrategy & ActivitiesERC Scientific CouncilERC Scientific Council
Retain – Repatriate – Recruit
Favour “brain gain” and “reverse brain drain” increase competition, recognition and international visibility
for excellent individual scientists and scholars in Europe
ERC Advanced Grant: attract & reward established independent research leaders
Keep (young) researchers in Europe improve career opportunities and independence - especially
for young researchers
ERC Starting Grant: attract & retain the next generation of independent research leaders
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The Scientific CouncilThe Scientific Council OrganisationOrganisation
22 Members of the Scientific Council elected the Chair and Vice-Chairs
One Chair: Prof. Fotis Kafatos
Two Vice-Chairs: Prof. Helga Nowotnyand Dr Daniel Estève
+ Regular Plenary Meetings (every 1-2 months)
+ Secretariat of the ScC(Directorate S)
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The AgencyThe Agency
Executes annual work programme
as established by the Scientific Council
Implements calls for proposalsand provides information and support to applicants
Organises peer review evaluation
Establishes and manages grant agreements
Administers scientific and financial aspectsand follow-up of grant agreements
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The European UnionThe European Union(represented by the European Commission)(represented by the European Commission)
Provides financingthrough the EU framework programmes
Guarantees autonomyof the ERC
Assures the integrity and accountabilityof the ERC
Adopts annual work programmesas established by the Scientific Council
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The ERC BoardThe ERC Board
Prof. Fotis Kafatos
President of the ERC
Prof. Helga Nowotny
Dr Daniel EsteveVice-Presidents of the ERC
Prof. Ernst-Ludwig WinnackerERC Secretary-General
Jack MettheyDirector of ERC DIS
(EC RTD Directorate S)
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The first homeThe first homefor the ERCfor the ERC
•Madou Plaza – Tour Madou•Brussels
•2 dedicated floors (5th/6th)•140 work places•5 meeting rooms•1 auditorium (192 seats)
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ERC Advanced GrantERC Advanced Grant (ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant)(ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant)
• Flexible grants for ground-breaking, high-risk/high-gain research that opens new opportunities and directions including those of a multi- and inter-disciplinary nature
• Complement to the ERC Starting Grants, targeting researchers who are already established independent research leaders
for up to 5 years, i.e. normally up to ~2,500,000 Euro per grant (may go up to ~3.5 MEuro in specific cases)
~ ⅔ of ERC annual budget, annual calls (= ~ 300 Advanced Grants per year)
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Individual Research Teams:
headed by a single “Principal Investigator” (team leader)
of any nationality
if necessary, including additional team members.
The PI has the freedom to choose the research topic and the power to assemble his/her research team (including “co-Investigators”) meeting the needs of the project.
Teams can be of national or trans-national character
Hosting institution located in an EU member state or associated country
ERC GrantsERC GrantsWho can apply ?Who can apply ?
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ERC Advanced Grant ERC Advanced Grant Lessons learned from StG 1 Lessons learned from StG 1
1. Managing demand for grants Maximise call budget
By combining budgets over 2 successive years (only one application per researcher in either 2008 or 2009)
Encourage the best to apply Excellent track record (in recent years) Strong leadership profile
Discourage trivial or low-quality applications Applications should be substantive (one-stage submission
with two stage evaluation) Disincentives to submission of applications which are not
of the highest quality
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Benchmarks of 10 year Benchmarks of 10 year “track record”“track record”
• Senior author publications in major peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary scientific journals and/or in the leading peer-reviewed journals of their respective research fields
• Monographs and any translations of monographs (if applicable).
• Granted patents (if applicable)
• Invited presentations into peer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools (if applicable)
• Expeditions that the applicant has led (if applicable)
• International conferences in the field of the applicant that have been organised (member of the steering and/or organising committee) by him/her (if applicable)
• International Prizes/Awards/Academy memberships (if applicable)
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Indicators of “leadership profile”Indicators of “leadership profile”
• Content and impact of the major scientific or scholarly contributions of the applicant to his or her own research field and/or neighbouring research fields and, if applicable, their wider societal impact;
• The international recognition and diffusion that these major contributions have received from others (publications or appropriate equivalents/additional funding/ students/international prizes and awards/ institution-building/other);
• Ability to productively change research fields and/or to establish new interdisciplinary approaches
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ERC Advanced GrantERC Advanced Grant
Re-application restrictionsRe-application restrictions
Only one ERC Grant per investigator may be active
at any time
One submission may be made to ERC-2008-AdG or
ERC-2009-AdG
PIs submitting to ERC-2008-AdG or ERC-2009-AdG
and failing quality threshold(s) will not be permitted
to apply to ERC-2010-AdG
Additional restrictions on multiple submissions
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Re-application AdG
AdG1 (2008)
AdG2 (2009)
AdG3 (2010) AdG3 (2010)
AdG 4 (2011)
Step 1 +Step 2 +
Step 1 +Step 2 +
Step 1 - Step 1 -
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ERC Calls Indicative Schedule (2007-2010)
Work Programme Revision ERC Action Call open Call DeadlineEstimated Call value
(€ M)Budgetary year Evaluation
Feb. 2007 StG1 Winter 06 Spring 07 290 2007 Spring - Autumn 07
Spring 2008 StG2 Summer 08 Autumn 08 290 2009 Winter 08 - Spring 09
Spring 2009 StG3 Summer 09 Autumn 09 340 2010 Winter 09 - Spring 10
Spring 2010 StG4 Summer 10 Autumn 10 400 2011 Winter 10 - Spring 11
ERC Starting Grant Calls Indicative Schedule 2007 - 2010
Work Programme Revision ERC Action Call open Call DeadlineEstimated Call value
(€ M)Budgetary year Evaluation
Oct. 2007 AdG1 Autumn 07 Spring 08 517 2008 Spring 08 - Autumn 08
Spring 2008 AdG2 Autumn 08 Spring 09 480 2009 Spring 09 - Autumn 09
Spring 2009 AdG3 Autumn 09 Spring 10 741 2010 Spring 10 - Autumn 10
Spring 2010 AdG4 Autumn 10 Spring 11 869 2011 Spring 11 - Autumn 11
ERC Advanced Grant Calls Indicative Schedule 2007 - 2010
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ERC Advanced Grant ERC Advanced Grant Lessons learned from StG 1 Lessons learned from StG 1
2. Evaluation Methodology
Single stage application with 2-step peer review evaluation
Separate indicative budget for interdisciplinary and high risk proposals
Panel structure 25 panels across the 3 domains Additional panels to take account of uneven demand
and improve the boundaries between research areas
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ERC Advanced GrantERC Advanced Grant
1-stage submission / 2-step evaluation
Proposals must contain: CV + 10 year track record + scientific leadership profile + extended
synopsis (and “co-investigator(s), if necessary) Research proposal Research Environment description
Special role (and assessment of co-investigators) in proposals that are anticipated for interdisciplinary research
Evaluation: 1st step: Evaluation of P.I. (with special emphasis on track
record/leadership profile/CV) & “Extended Synopsis” 2nd step: Evaluation of Full Proposal (with referees, no interview)
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3 main research domains + interdisciplinary research, with separate indicative budgets:
─ Physical Sciences & Engineering (39%)
─ Life Sciences (incl. medical) (34%)
─ Humanities & Social Sciences (14%)
─ Interdisciplinary (13%)
ERC Advanced grantERC Advanced grant Indicative budgets Indicative budgets
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ERC Advanced GrantERC Advanced Grant
Panel structurePanel structure
Increase panels to 25
Provisionally, each panel consists of the panel chair and ca. 10 panel members
Panel Chair oversees evaluation process for the proposals assigned to his/her panel in collaboration with the ERC staff
The Panel Chair gives high level credibility stamp and visibility to the whole evaluation process
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ERC Grant schemesERC Grant schemesPanels: Interdisciplinary, forward-looking constitutionPanels: Interdisciplinary, forward-looking constitution
Examples (Panels for ERC Advanced Grant)
SH1: Individuals, institutions and markets:SH1: Individuals, institutions and markets: economics, finance and management
PE10: Earth system science:PE10: Earth system science: physical geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, climatology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management
LS5: Evolutionary, population and LS5: Evolutionary, population and environmental biology:environmental biology: evolution, ecology, animal behaviour, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography, marine biology, ecotoxicology, prokaryotic biology
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ERC Advanced GrantERC Advanced Grant
Submission of ProposalsSubmission of Proposals
Early registration (via EPSS) To provide ERC with indication on number & area of proposals
One-stage electronic submission (only via EPSS) Full Proposal
Including elements that will be evaluated during the first step
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Evaluation CriteriaEvaluation CriteriaScientific Excellence is the sole CriterionScientific Excellence is the sole Criterion
1. Quality of Principal Investigator
2. Quality of research project
3. Research Environment and Resources
Referees and panels evaluate and score criteria 1 and 2 numerically, which will result in the ranking of the proposals
Criteria 3 will be considered (step 2) on a "pass/fail" basis and commented but not scored
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1. Support for monitoring and assessment of the ERC through call for tender and call for proposals: Assessing the direct and indirect impacts of the ERC Evaluating the implementation of the “Ideas” programme Contributing to future ERC policy and initiatives
2. Support to Scientific Council (chairman and vice-chairs) through grants to named beneficiaries
Coordination & Support Actions (CSA)Coordination & Support Actions (CSA)
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Submission DeadlinesSubmission Deadlines
• ERC-2008-AdGPhysical Sciences & Engineering (PE1-PE10): 28/02
Social Sciences & Humanities (SH1-SH6): 18/03
Life Sciences: (LS1-LS9): 22/04
• ERC-2008-Suport: 06/03
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ERC Work Programme (to be revised in Autumn 2007)
ERC Guide for Applicants (Research Grants plus CSAs)
ERC Grant agreement
Other:
ERC Guide for Grant Holders
ERC Guide for Peer Reviewers
ERC Rules on submission, evaluation, selection and award procedures
DocumentationDocumentation
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Applicants Services
• ERC National Contact Pointsinform, raise awareness and provide advice on ERC funding opportunities, application, follow-up
• ERC helpdesk
• EPSS helpdesktechnical support on electronic proposal submission
• ERC website: http://erc.europa.euNews Alert
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ERC-2007-StGERC-2007-StGEvaluation (Stage 1)Evaluation (Stage 1)
Eligibility Check9167 incoming proposals
8799 eligible 5 withdrawn 368 ineligible
Individual assessment 8794 eligible proposals evaluated at first stage
8235 rejected 559 selected (LS=206, PE=251, SH=102)
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Time after PhD• 87% of PIs received PhD between 4 and 9 years ago
Age• 36 years in average
Gender• 24% female applicants (PE: 18%, LS: 21%, SH: 44%)
ERC-2007-StGERC-2007-StGEvaluation (stage 1): some statisticsEvaluation (stage 1): some statistics
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Domain
Number
of
proposals
%
of
proposals
%
of budget
pre-allocated*
Life Sciences 206 37 40
Physical Sciences & Engineering 251 45 45
Social Sciences & Humanities 102 18 15
Total 559
ERC-2007-StGERC-2007-StG Evaluation (stage 1): Distribution over Scientific DomainsEvaluation (stage 1): Distribution over Scientific Domains
*Indicative budget (Scientific Council, ERC work programme 2007)
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ERC-2007-StGERC-2007-StG Evaluation (stage 1): Geographical distributionEvaluation (stage 1): Geographical distribution
* Based on the total of 559 retained proposal
Cluster Number of proposals PI residence % Host Institutionlocation %
European UnionNew Member States
47530
85 5
894
Associated countries 47 8 11
Overseas 37 7 0
100* 100* 100*
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Call closure 25/04/2007
Remote evaluations (stage 1) May-June 2007
Panel meetings (stage 1) June-July 2007
Invitation for stage 2 July 2007
Letters of rejection August 2007
Submission deadline (stage 2) 17/09/2007
Panel meetings & Interviews Oct-Nov 2007
Feedback to applicants Dec 2007-Jan 2008
First ERC Grant agreements Spring 2008
ERC-2007-StGERC-2007-StGTimelineTimeline
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ERC-2007-StG ERC-2007-StG Evaluation: overviewEvaluation: overview
289.5 M€ available forthis call
~ 250 projects
Stage 2 evaluation: ~ 50%
will be retained
559 retained proposals
representing
about 535 M€
Stage 1 evaluation: ~ 6 % retained
8794 proposalsevaluated
representing
about 10 B€
value of requested funding
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Number of proposals by evaluation step
9167
8794
559
554
548
300
368 ineligible
5 withdrawn
8235 rejected
5 not submitted to second stage
2 passed away
1 withdrawn
3 ineligible
131 above threshold, reserve list
117 rejected
Submitted stage 1
Evaluated stage 1
Selected stage 1
Selected stage 2
Submitted stage 2
Evaluated stage 2
553
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
UK FR DE NL IT ES IL CH BE SE FI HU AT EL DK CY IE PT BG CZ NO
SH
PE
LS
Country of host institution
21 countries
Number of proposals by domain and country of host institution (head quarters)
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Age
Number of PIs by age
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44
Male
FemaleAverage age: 35.5 years
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Time after first PhD
Number of PIs by number of years after first PhD
Average number of years after PhD
Domain Female Male Total
Life Sciences 7.1 6.4 6.5
Physical Sciences & Engineering
6.2 6.2 6.2
Social Sciences & Humanities
6.5 6.1 6.3
Total 6.6 6.3 6.30
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Male
Female
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Nationality
Number of proposals by gender and nationality
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
DE IT FR UK IL NL ES BE SE FI HU CH AT EL US CY IE JP PL PT AR CA CN DK RU TR AU CZ NO RO SI SK
Male
Female
32 countries
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Country of residence
Number of proposals by gender and country of residence
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
UK FR DE IT NL ES IL CH SE US BE HU FI AT EL CY DK IE PL AR AU CA JP NO PT RO SK
Male
Female
27 countries
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0
4
2
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
00
0
2
2
CY
Source: Sample 300; The size of the quadrats and arrows indicates the relevance; green=1 person blue=2 persons
Intra-European Mobility: Intra-European Mobility: Remaining and moving grantholdersRemaining and moving grantholders
0
IL
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Australia
Repatriation – Moving back to EuropeRepatriation – Moving back to Europe
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Interdisciplinarity 1Interdisciplinarity 1
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
LS PE SH
Domains
Nu
mb
er o
f p
rop
osa
ls
interdisc.
non-interdisc.
Grand Total
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Interdisciplinarity 2 (cross-panel) Interdisciplinarity 2 (cross-panel)
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
LS1
LS2
LS3
LS4
LS5
LS6
LS7
PE1PE2
PE3PE4
PE5PE6
PE7PE8
SH1SH2
SH3SH4
SH5
Panels
Nu
mb
er
of
pro
po
sa
ls
cross-panel
non-cross-panel Grand Total
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Interdisciplinarity 3 (cross-domain)Interdisciplinarity 3 (cross-domain)
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
LS PE SH
Domains
Nu
mb
er
of
pro
po
sa
ls
cross-domain
not cross-domain
Grand Total