Established by the European Commission FP7 IDEAS Programme The European Research Council 2007 – 2012: An overview with focus on Italy

Established by the European Commission

FP7 IDEAS Programme

The European Research Council 2007 – 2012: An overview with focus on Italy


Raphael: The School of Athens(1510-1511)

The early European Research Area

For Excellence, the best framework conditions are needed


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Consiglio europeo della Ricerca (ERC)

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• Budget 2013: 1,741 miliardi €• Sovvenzioni: max 2,5 milioni € per progetto• Beneficiari: ricercatori di ogni nazionalita',disciplina e eta' (almeno 2 anni post-doc), per progetti da svolgere in un paese UE o in uno dei paesi associati all VII PQ

• Sostegno a singoli ricercatori (no networks/consorzi)• Criteri di selezione: eccellenza scientifica• Panels di selezione internazionali (peer review)• Nessuna priorita' tematica


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


ERC Scientific Council Members

Prof. Don DingwellERC Secretary General

• Prof. Klaus BOCK (Chemistry)• Prof. Nicholas CANNY (History)• Prof. Sierd A.P.L. CLOETINGH (Earth Sciences)• Prof. Tomasz DIETL (Physics)• Prof. Daniel DOLEV (Computer Sciences) • Prof. Athene DONALD (Biological Physics) • Prof. Carlos M. DUARTE (Biology)• Dr. Barbara ENSOLI (Medicine)• Prof. Daniel ESTEVE (Physics)• Prof. Pavel EXNER (Applied Mathematics & Mathematical Physics), ERC Vice President• Prof. Reinhard GENZEL(Astrophysics)• Prof. Carl-Henrik HELDIN (Molecular Cell Biology), ERC Vice President• Prof. Timothy HUNT (Biology)• Prof. Matthias KLEINER (Engineering)• Prof. Eva KONDOROSI (Biology)• Prof. Nuria SEBASTIAN GALLES (Psychology) • Prof. Helga NOWOTNY (Science and Technology Studies), ERC President• Prof. Alain PEYRAUBE (Linguistics) • Prof. Mart SAARMA (Biology)• Prof. Anna TRAMONTANO (Biochemistry)• Prof. Isabelle VERNOS (Molecular and Cell Biology) • Prof. Reinhilde VEUGELERS (Economics)


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Co-operation (65 %)

Ideas (15 %)

People (9 %)

Capacities (8 %)JRC non-

nuclear (3 %)


ERC: tre tipi di sovvenzioni

Starting e Consolidators Grants Advanced Grants

StG 2010AdG 2010

• Attirare/trattenere in Europa le prossime generazioni di leaders scientifici

• Favorire l’indipendenza dei giovani talenti • Stabilire team e programmi di ricerca

indipendenti• Max 2 Milioni € per 5 anni

• Attirare/trattenere in Europa i migliori scienziati

• Stimolare importanti scoperte scientifiche• Max. € 2.5 Milioni per 5 anni

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Starting Grants

starters (2-7 years after PhD)

up to € 2.0 Mio for 5 years

Advanced Grants track-record of

significant researchachievements in the

last 10 yearsup 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)

up to € 2.75 Mio for 5 years


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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Top applicants - countries of host institutions ERC Starting and Consolidator Grant calls 2007-2013ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2013


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ERC Competitions 2007-2012

Data as of 08/04/2013

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 4,652 566 12.2

Starting Grant 23,364 22,603 2,032 10.7

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 2012 2,304 2,269 321 14.1

Advanced Grant 10,348 10,041 1,420 14.3

Proof of Concept 2011 - 1&2 151 139 51 36.7

Proof of Concept 2012 - 1&2 143 120 60 50.0

Proof of Concept 294 259 111 43.3

Synergy Grant 2012 710 697 11 1.6 * withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account

** percentage of funded proposals in relation to evaluated proposals

Total number of applications

of which


Over 3400 grants awarded after 10 StG and AdG calls(one fifth to women PIs)


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Highly competitive: Average success rate 12%


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ERC grant distribution to countries of HIERC Starting and Advanced grant calls 2007-2012

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


Top European

Institutions

hosting at least 25

ERC Grantees

by funding Schemes

StG 2007-2012AdG 2008-2012

First legal signatories of the grant agreement

Data as of 08/04/2013

Country Higher-Education Institution No StG AdG Total LS PE SH

UK University of Cambridge 1 54 40 94 31 49 14

UK University of Oxford 2 47 43 90 26 43 21

UK University College London 3 42 27 69 28 14 27

CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) 4 38 30 68 19 48 1

CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) 5 22 41 63 21 40 2

IL Hebrew University of Jerusalem 6 33 24 57 25 21 11

IL Weizmann Institute 7 31 21 52 30 21 1

UK Imperial College 8 28 23 51 20 31

BE University of Leuven 9 25 10 35 10 17 8

DE University of Munich 10 12 21 33 15 12 6

UK University of Edinburgh 11 17 15 32 8 13 11

UK University of Bristol 12 13 17 30 6 19 5

NL University of Amsterdam 13 15 14 29 3 8 18

NL Leiden University 13 15 14 29 1 15 13

FI University of Helsinki 14 16 12 28 19 7 2

IL Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 15 21 6 27 9 18

DK University of Copenhagen 16 15 11 26 9 11 6

CH University of Zurich 17 12 13 25 15 5 5

NL Radboud University Nijmegen 17 17 8 25 8 8 9

SE Karolinska Institute 17 15 10 25 24 1

Country Research Organisation No StG AdG Total LS PE SH

FR National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) 1 121 57 178 47 103 28

DE Max Planck Society 2 54 37 91 49 36 6

FR National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) 3 28 13 41 41

FR French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission 4 30 7 37 6 30 1

ES Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 5 19 11 30 13 12 5

FR National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) 6 17 12 29 29


Success rates per country of Host InstitutionERC Starting and Advanced Grant calls 2007-2012

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


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Nationals at home and abroadERC Starting and Advanced Grant calls 2007-2012


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Mobility of researchersERC Starting and Advanced Grant calls 2007-2012

Current host institutions; data as of 08/04/2013


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Evaluated Proposals from hosts in ItalyERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2013ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2013

Ineligible and withdrawn proposals not taken into account; *) all submitted for 2013 calls


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Granted proposals at HI in ItalyERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2012

* current host institutions; data as of 08/04/2013


Top Host institution in ItalyERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 – 2012

* current host institutions; data as of 08/04/2013


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 Second call in 2012 with 2 deadlines Third call in 2013 (deadlines 24 April and 3 October)

Frontier research and innovation: ERC Proof of Concept

2011 2012

Total applications 151 143

Evaluated* 139 120

Funded 51 60

* withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account


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PoC scheme was introduced in 2011 to allow researchers who are already ERC grant holders to bridge the gap between their research and the earliest stage of an innovation

ERC Proof of Concept – areas of application


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 year

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 SyG Call; 1.6% success rate 449 submissions to the second SyG Call


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Developing a new generation of excellent scientists 2/3 of staff are people in the training phase of their career(Analysis of 636 on-going projects)


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Attracting excellent researchersComposition of ERC teams (PIs not included)

Breakdown by nationality (97)(sample of 636 Starting and Advanced projects)

EU: 69% Assoc. Countries: 11%

non-ERA: 17% unknown: 3%

Most non-ERA from China, US, India,

and Russia

50% of non-ERA team members ''attracted'' to

Europe with the ERC grant


Nobel prize Nobel prize in physics in physics

20102010

KonstantinNovoselov

Uni of Manchester (Graphene)

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Fields Medals Fields Medals 2010 2010

Cédric VillaniInstitut Henri

Poincaré

Stanislav Smirnov

Geneva Uni.

Ngô Bảo Châu

Université Paris-Sud

Elon LindenstraussHebrew Univ.

*4 European winners in “Science” categories”

Wolf Prize Wolf Prize 2010* 2010*

ERC Grantee

AdG2008

David Baulcombe

Cambridge Univ.(Agriculture)

Axel Ullrich Max Planck (Medecine)

Alain AspectInst. d’Optique,

Palaiseau(Physics)

Anton ZeillingerVienna Univ.

(Physics)

ERC Grantee

AdG2008

ERC Grantee

AdG2010

ERC Grantee

AdG2008

L’Oréal-L’Oréal-UNESCOUNESCO

Award for Women Award for Women in Sciencein Science

ERC Grantee

AdG2008

Anne L’HuillierLund University

Physical Sciences

"Despite being a new, and thus untried instrument, the ERC has manifestly succeeded in attracting and

funding world-class research and is playing an important role in anchoring research talent." .

The independent interim evaluation of FP7

ERC Grantee

AdG2010ERC G

rantee

StG 2007

Andre GeimUni of

Manchester (Graphene)

The ERC attracts high calibre scientists


ERC prospects for the futureRising applications


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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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

under

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 - New actions 2014-20

• MC will continue as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

• Funding levels ~maintained • Broad Schemes ~maintained• Simplification in Implementation ~• Bi-Annual Work programmes

• Excellent Science - Priority I European Research Council Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Infrastructures

• Industrial leadership - Priority II Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Access to risk finance Innovation in SMEs

• Societal challenges - Priority III Health, demographic change and wellbeing Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, bio-economy Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials Inclusive, innovative and secure societies

• EIT

• JRC non-nuclear action

Horizon 2020

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actionsunder Horizon 2020

Proposed Budget (2014-2020): € 5.75 billion1. Fostering new skills through excellent initial

training of researchers2. Nurturing excellence through cross-border and

cross-sector mobility3. Stimulating innovation through cross-

fertilisation of knowledge4. Increasing structural impact by co-funding the

activities5. Specific support and policy action

Horizon 2020

COFUND

Innovative networks supporting early-stage training (Including Industrial doctorates & Joint doctorates)

ITNEarly-Stage Researchers

RISEExchange of Staff

IFExperienced Researchers

COFUNDCo-funding

Individual fellowship supporting experienced researchers undertaking mobility

International and inter-sector cooperation through research and innovation staff exchange

Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes funding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers

ITN

IAPP

IRSES

IEF

IOF

IIF

CIG

Horizon 2020

Innovative Training Networks (ITN)

Dedicated to early-stage researchers (no ER recruitment) Involving wide partnership of institutions from academic and

non-academic sectors Based on FP7 ITNs experience + support to joint doctorates

Addressing triple 'i' dimension of mobility

Combining scientific excellence with innovation-oriented approach

Developing entrepreneurship and skills matching research labour market needs

Enhancing employability of researchers

MSCA - main EU programme for structured doctoral training

Individual Fellowships(IF)

Opportunities for international and inter-sector mobility of ER to facilitate career moves

Enhance competences and creative potential of best researchers, European and non-European willing to work in the EU

Encompass intra-European, incoming, outgoing mobility and re-integration

Possibility of inter-sector secondments

Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

New type of exchange of staff action to stimulate transfer of knowledge

Flexible inter-sector (within Europe) and international (with 3rd countries) exchanges of highly skilled research and innovation staff

No recruitment foreseen

Single eligibility rule for partnership consortia

Based on a common research project

COFUND

Stimulating regional, national and international programmes to foster excellence

Spreading best practices of MSCA in terms of international mobility, research training, career development

Extended to doctoral training

Building on experience from FP7 COFUND – evaluation results available:

• COFUND is enhancing the international dimension of a number of national and regionally-based fellowship programmes in ways that are not open to Individual Fellowships

• Modest positive impact on operational and administrative procedures of host institutions (COFUND)

• Contributing to a gradual ‘levelling up’ in employment conditions for researchers

Inter-institutional discussions

Council

Framework Programme Regulation: Partial General Approach (PGA) reached on 31 May 2012

Rules for Participation and Dissemination: PGA reached on 10 October

Specific Programme: PGA reached on 11 December 2012

MSCA: Impact across the programme on the innovativeness of the private sector Importance of industrial doctorates Mobility for European brain gain – importance of (re)integration Extension of co-funding, involve private sector Synergies with Erasmus for All, Structural Funds, KICs

European Parliament

ITRE Committee vote on 28 November 2012Importance of widening participationBuilding synergies between Horizon 2020 and Structural FundsEstablishing bridges with national and regional initiatives20% of budget for SMEsOpen access to publications and scientific data

MSCA: Increase of budget (from 7.2% to 8.3% of H2020) Importance of joint and industrial doctorates Promoting excellence in less innovation performing regions Measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of female researchers Support for outgoing mobility followed by return to Europe "Seal of excellence" on positively evaluated projects (not funded)

Inter-institutional discussions

Documents

Established by the European Commission FP7 IDEAS Programme The European Research Council 2007 – 2012: An overview with focus on Italy