Unit A1: Support to the Scientific Council

European Research Council

Unit A1: Support to the Scientific Council

FP7 IDEAS Programme

The European Research Council


Support for the individual scientist – no networks!Global peer-reviewNo 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 strategySupport by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous)Excellence as the only criterion

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


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 Grants2 – 4 Principal Investigatorsup 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)



ERC Grant schemesNext call 2013:

Consolidator Grants

consolidators (7-12 years after PhD)


Call for proposals for ERC Consolidator GrantIdentifier: ERC-2013-CoGPublication Date: 07 November 2012Budget: € 523 000 000Deadline: 21 February 2013 at 17:00:00OJ Reference: OJ C339 of 7 November 2012Specific Programme(s): IDEASTheme(s):ERCAdditional informationPlease note that the call 'ERC-2013-CoG' consists of one call with a single deadline applying to the three domains:• Physical Sciences & Engineering (Panels: PE1 – PE10),• Life Sciences (Panels: LS1 – LS9),• Social Sciences & Humanities (Panels: SH1 – SH6).

The deadline for all domains of this call is 21 February 2013, 17:00:00 (Brussels local time).The budget indicated above is the total budget covering all domains.


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 Competitions 2007-2012

Data as of 26/09/2012

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 4.653 536 11,5

Starting Grant 23.364 22.604 2.002 10,6

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 8.044 7.772 1.099 14,3

Proof of Concept 2011 - 1&2 151 139 51 36,7

Proof of Concept 2012 - 1*** 75 60 33 55,0

Proof of Concept 226 199 84 45,8 * withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account

** percentage of funded proposals in relation to evaluated proposals

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Total number of applications

received

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Highly competitive Average success rate: 12%

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15,8

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Prospects for the future



ERC in FP7 and in H2020 : Changes and Continuity

Strengthening the Scientific Governance of the European Research CouncilStrengthening the links between the Scientific Council and the Executive Agency

Merging positions of President of ERC and Secretary General Full-time President based in Brussels 3 Vice-Chairs elected from amongst the Scientific Council members

Strengthening the role of Scientists in the Steering Committee of the ERCEAStrengthening the relation of the Scientific Council and the ERCEA

Strengthening the links between ERC and other parts of H2020 which aim to reinforce European Science base

“Bringing ERC with Marie Curie, FET and Research Infrastructures together in a single programme will enable them to operate with greater coherence and in a rationalised, simplified and more focused way” (example: RI: LaserLab Europe: http://www.laserlab-europe.eu/research/advanced-grants-for-laserlab-researchers

Essential features maintained Independent Scientific Council with full authority over funding strategy Executive Agency with autonomous operation Scientific excellence - the sole criterion on which ERC grants are awarded


Budget proposal under H2020

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 € 88 billion ERC budget € 15 billion

JRC (2.5%)

EIT (3.6%)

ERC(17.1%)

Industrial leadership

(23.1%)

Other Excellent science (14.6%)

Societal challenges

(39%)


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Unit A1: Support to the Scientific Council

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ERC prospects for the futureRising applications


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H2020 : Timeline to approval

EU Council•PGA on H2020 Regulation at the Competitiveness Council 31.05.12•PGA on Rules of Participation at the Competitiveness Council 10.10.12•PGA on the Specific Programme and the Euratom proposal targeted at the Competitiveness Council 11.12.2012

European Parliament•EP Conference of Presidents decided that all EP reports under MFF (e.g. Horizon 2020) will not be adopted in Plenary until agreement is reached on Multiannual Financial Framework•ITRE may vote on the Horizon 2020 package in October/November and then wait for vote in plenary

MFF•Special European Council (Heads of State / Government) has been arranged for 22-23 November to finalise the MFF


HORIZON 2020

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 (budget proposal under H2020: € 15 billion) Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Curie Research Infrastructures

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Participation of Denmark



Success rates per country of Host InstitutionERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2012

*) First legal signatories of the first grant agreement taken into account


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Evaluated proposals from Danish host institutions, by call and domainERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2012

Ineligible and withdrawn proposals not taken into account; *) all submitted for StG2013

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AdG 2008AdG 2009AdG 2010AdG 2011AdG 2012 StG 2007 StG 2009 StG 2010 StG 2011 StG 2012 StG 2013*

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701 evaluated proposals from host institutions in Denmark,by ERC call and domain


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Granted proposals at Danish host institutions, by call and domainERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2011

* Current host institutions; data as of 26/09/2012

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59 projects with a host institution in Denmark,by ERC call and domain


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ERC grant distribution to countries of HIERC Starting grant 2007 – 2012 & Advanced grant 2008 – 2011

3101 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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13 foreign ERC grantees in Denmark: US (3), AU (2), UK (2), other (6)

16 Danish ERC grantees away from Denmark: UK (5), SE (5), DE (2), CH (2), ES (1), FR (1)

Mobility of researchersERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2011


Host institutions in Denmark ERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2011

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Danish Cancer Society

State Serum Institute - Denmark

Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM)

University of Southern Denmark

Copenhagen Business School

Technical University of Denmark

Aarhus University

University of Copenhagen

Starting Grants Advanced Grants PoC 2012


ERC panel members by country of HI and genderERC Starting and Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2011

* no of instances that experts of a certain country of origin are being used

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

Averaged over the first eight ERC calls 25% of the ERC panel members were women.

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