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WP 2010
Gunnar Sandberg
European Research Council
│ 2NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009
WP 2010, structure
a) Stable and complementary grant schemes: StG, AdG.• Investigator driven (“bottom-up”) actions.• Highest quality research at the frontiers of knowledge with particular
encouragement of interdisciplinarity.• Evaluation of proposals on the basis of the sole criterion of excellence.• Targeting investigators at two different career stages.• Multiple, sliding stage opportunities over 7 years of FP7.• Continuously increasing budget.
b) Funding.• Calls’ cumulative budget surpassing for the first time the € 1 bn mark! • Complementing Member States’ activities towards full spectrum
coverage (SP Ideas-consistent).
c) Accompanying measures/actions (CSA) for the timely monitoring/assessment of the ERC activities.
European Research Council
│ 3NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009
WP 2010, general adjustments
1. Significant budgetary strengthening of StG (StG/AdG ca.1/1).
2. Measure to increase attractiveness of EU and associated countries to researchers from third countries.
3. Further addressing of justified research career gaps and/or unconventional research career paths (especially for women researchers).
4. Slight simplification of proposal structure (no self-evaluation).
5. Clearer indications of expected commitment to the ERC-funded activity by a PI of a StG and AdG project (previously only specified in the Guide for Applicants).
European Research Council
│ 4NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009
WP 2010, StG specific adjustments
Targeting PI populations:
Extension of “eligibility window” in view of the budgetary strengthening of the action: 2-10 year post PhD.
Increased extension of eligibility window for maternity leave (18 months per child born before or after PhD award).
Recognition of two streams of applicants: “starters” (2 to 6 years post-PhD) and “consolidators” (over 6 and up to 10 years post-PhD) during evaluation.
Indicative budget separation for the two streams on the basis of respective budgetary demand per panel (ensuring comparable success rate).
Introduction of “€0.5M incentive” (within the “up to €2.0M for 5 years”) to increase attractiveness for PIs from third countries.
Minor “fine tuning”:Re-application rule (from ERC-2010-StG call and on!): every other call unless proposal evaluated over quality threshold at step-1. and Step-1 cut-off level (slight increase to “normally 2.5 x” indicative panel budget).
European Research Council
│ 5NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009
WP 2010, AdG specific adjustments
No change in content (high quality applications by excellent established PIs).
Re-application rule (from ERC-2010-AdG and on): every other call unless proposal evaluated over quality threshold at step-2 but not funded.
Re-application rule that links applicants of either ERC-2008-AdG or ERC-2009-AdG calls with the ERC-2010-AdG still holds.
European Research Council
│ 6NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009
Timetable 2009-10
Target period for new WP publication (adoption by the Commission):
End of July 2009
Publication of the second StG call, ERC-2010-StG* These dates should be considered provisional and are pending the adoption of the Work Programme by the Commission.
End of July 2009Tentative deadlines*
PE: 28/10/09LS: 18/11/09SH: 09/12/09
Publication of the second AdG call, ERC-2010-AdG* These dates should be considered provisional and are pending the adoption of the Work Programme by the Commission.
End of October 2009Tentative deadlines*
PE: 24/02/10LS: 17/03/10SH: 07/04/10
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│ 7
Major Changes compared to StG2
• Increase in budget to €528M from €296M (78% increase)
Big increase in number of interviews!
• Division in to two streams (“starters” and “consolidators”)
• More generous time allowance for children:
Maternity leave: Automatic 1.5 years for any children, before for children born before or after Ph.D
Paternity leave: accumulation of time taken (documented), for children born before or after Ph.D.
• Maximum cumulative time: 14.5 years
European Research Council
│ 8
Major Changes compared to StG2
• Reduction in maximum amount applicants can apply for to €1.5 M except for:
establishment of a new research activity in the EU or AC
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│ 9
Starter and Consolidator Stream
• By default:
Starters: 2-6 years past Ph.D
Consolidators: 6-10 years past Ph.D.
Applicants will be asked to elaborate on their stage in a special (short) subsection of part B1
No box on the A1 page to tick.
Up to panels to assess and make final decision
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│ 10
Some planned changes…
• Plan is not to use A1T Form for this Call• Plan for the possibility to exclude one reviewer• Request possibility to use Title and Abstract
for contacting potential reviewers
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│ 11
Remember Resubmission rules!
• Spelled out in the Work Programme
• For StG3, applicants need to have reached Step 2 of the StG2 evaluation, and not be funded due to budget limitations (not failed)
• Applicants that are eliminated at StG-2 Step 1 cannot apply.
• The plan is to relax these rules for following Call so that only those who fail (i.e. below threshold) in Step 1 cannot re-apply
European Research Council
│ 12
Approximate Calendar/ Deadlines
• PE: 28 October
• LS: 18 November
• SH: 9 December
• Step 1 Panel Meetings: January March 2010
• Interviews: April – May 2010
• Final Panel Chair Meeting: June 2010
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Results 2009 Where do we stand?
• All Step 1 and Step 2 (interviews) panel meetings concluded
• Granting has started and results have been sent out for PE2 - PE10 and all SH panels
• Small delay in PE 1 for technical reasons• LS Domain results has started the internal
Interservice Consultation process• Expect to send out results July
European Research Council
Final Panel Chair Meeting
• Had Final Panel Chair meeting June 18 and 19)• Resulted in 16 proposals accepted by Panel
Chairs to funded from ID budget.• Reserve list have been formed by domain by the
panel chairs• Expect to be able to fund 219 main list proposals• Expect o have up to €29€ available in Associated
Country contributions for this Call, which should allow some ~25 addional proposal to be funded
European Research Council
ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Submitted and mainlist proposals by domain
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Social Sciences & Humanities
927 (37%)
1112 (44.4%)
464 (18.6%)
69 (31.5%)
93 (42.5%)
41 (18.7%)
Submitted proposals Mainlist
∑ = 2503 ∑ = 219
16 (7.3%)Interdisciplinary Domain
European Research Council
• Age: mean: 37.2, min: 30, max: 52
• Gender: 24.2% women
• PhD: 100%
• Years after PhD: mean: 6.7, min: 4, max: 11
• Prof: 22.5% (11.4% for all applicants)
ERC Starting Grant 2009 – MainlistERC Starting Grant 2009 – MainlistProfile of Principal Investigator
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│ 17
Number of proposals Proposals by domain
37,1% 37,0% 35,3% 32,1%
48,1% 44,4% 46,0%46,7%
14,9% 18,5% 18,6% 21,2%
0%
50%
100%
2007 2009 2008 2009
Starting Grant Advanced Grant
Social Sciences & Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
+ +
+_
__3399
927 766 506
4406
1112997
736
1362
464404
335
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
2007 2009 2008 2009
Starting Grant Advanced Grant
Social Sciences & Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
9167
25032167
1577
- 72,7 %
- 27 %
Proposals
ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007, 2008 & 2009ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007, 2008 & 2009Submitted proposals by domain
European Research Council
ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Submitted proposals by panel & gender
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
LS
1
LS
2
LS
3
LS
4
LS
5
LS
6
LS
7
LS
8
LS
9
PE
1
PE
2
PE
3
PE
4
PE
5
PE
6
PE
7
PE
8
PE
9
PE
10
SH
1
SH
2
SH
3
SH
4
SH
5
SH
6
% o
f s
ub
mit
ted
Pro
po
sa
ls
Social Sciences &Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
StG 09 2503, 17 Dec. 2008
% Female candidates
European Research Council
ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Mainlist proposals by panel & gender
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9 PE1 PE2 PE3 PE4 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9 PE10 SH1 SH2 SH3 SH4 SH5 SH6 ID
% o
f p
rop
os
als
Social Sciences &Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
StG-09, J une 2009
Inter-disciplinary
European Research Council
Source: StG-09: 2503, 17.12.2008
StG 2009Submitted proposals
by country of host institution
(2503)
29
227
42434
9043
80
7
2626
95
134
3049
34
42
2
284
1
6195261
47
9
86
256
228
1
347
European Research Council
Armenia
2
Argentinia
2
Australia
7
Bangladesh
1
Canada
3
Cuba
1
Chile
1
Brasil
7
Algeria
1
Belarus 1
Egypt
1 India
14
Japan 6Lebano 1
Korea
3
Sri Lanka
2
Mexico
2
Malaysia
2
New Zealand
2
Peru
1
Russia
30
Singapore
1
Taiwan 2Iran 1
USA
31
Ukraine 8
Uruguay 1
Viet Nam
1
South Africa
2
ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009 Submissions from nationals of third countries
China
14
Source: StG-09: 2503 submitted proposals
Moldova2Kazakhistan 1
European Research Council
ERA
4
56
1
5
ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009Submissions from researchers with a residence outside of ERA
31
1
1
1
1
1
European Research Council
ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009 Submitted proposals by country of host institution & gender
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
IT UK DE FR ES NL BE EL SE IL CH AT FI DK TR PT PL NO IE CZ HU RO SI CY BG HR LT SK EE LV MT RS
% o
f su
bm
itte
d P
rop
osa
ls
Male
Female
StG 09, 2503 17 Dec. 2008
European Research Council
ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009Submitted proposals by country of host institution & domain
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
IT UK DE FR ES NL BE EL SE IL CH AT FI DK TR P T P L NO IE CZ HU RO SI CY BG HR LT SK EE LV MT RS
% o
f sub
mitt
ed P
ropo
sals
Social Sciences & Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
StG 09, 250317 Dec. 2008
European Research Council ERC Starting Grants 2007 & 2009ERC Starting Grants 2007 & 2009
Call comparison: Submissions by country of host institution
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
IT UK DE FR ES NL SE EL BE FI P L CH IL HU P T TR DK AT IE RO NO CZ BG SI SK CY RS HR LT EE LU IS LV MT
% o
f sub
mitt
ed P
ropo
sals
Starting Grant 2007
Starting Grant 2009
StG 07: 9167; StG 09, 2503; 17 Dec. 2008
European Research Council
Bosnia
2
Congo
1
Belarus 8
Colombia
2
Ethiopia 1
Hong Kong
1
Kenya 1
Morocco
2
Mauritius
1
Malawi
1
Nigeria
1Philippines
1
Pakistan
2
Togo
1
Thailand
1
Cisjordanie 1
Tanzania 1
Viet Nam
2
South Africa
2
Zimbabwe 1
ERC Starting grant calls 2007 & 2009ERC Starting grant calls 2007 & 2009Submissions from citizens of third countries
Iran 1
Kazakhstan
1USA
116
Russia
139
India
53
Ukraine 40
Canada
36
Australia
35
Japan
24
Brasilia
21
Mexico
12
Korea
10
Malaysia
5
Taiwan 5Cuba
5
Bangladesh
5
Singapore
8
New Zealand
8
Tunisia
8Algeria
7
China
61Egypt
4
Armenia
4
Peru
4
Venezuela
4 Sri Lanka
3
Uruguay
3
Chile
3
Uzbekistan
3Lebanon
3
Argentina
18
European Research Council
ERC CommunicationERC CommunicationUnit ERCEA.A.2 (11+1 people)
• Acting Head of Unit A2: Pablo AMOR (since March 2009)
• Promoting ERC funding opportunities: Samantha CHRISTEY (since 1/5/2009)• Communicating ERC-funded research: Catherine AUDOUZE (since 1/6/2009)• Media Relations: Madeleine DRIELSMA (since July 2007)• Organisation of events, NCPs: Béatrice THIRY (since May 2008)• ERC image, benefits and publicity: Hilde BAESKENS (as of 16/8/2009)• Production (print, audiovisual): Carla PALMIERI (since Mai 2006)• Internal Communications, corporate identity: Elina DESYLLA (since Oct 2005)• Web and Database Manager Paolo BORGHESI (since 16/6/2009)• Graphics Designer to be recruited• Support and assistance: Sylvie ORIOT (since 1/12/2008)
Danielle EVRARD (since 1/3/2009)
• Deputy Head of Unit S1 in charge ofERC communications , DG-RTD: Gianpietro VAN DE GOOR (since 2004/05)
European Research Council
ERC CommunicationsERC CommunicationsCurrent/ongoing challenges
Consolidation of communication capacities, especially to support growth of the Agency and its transition to autonomy (internal communication)
Promoting ERC-funding opportunities, especially outside of Europe: events, grantees as ambassadors (alumni culture), promote career and funding
opportunities for young researchers in Europe Communicating ERC-funded Frontier Research, including case studies,
success stories, portrays of grantees, achievements of ERC-funded research
Communicating ERC achievements, including the wider benefits and impact (supported by CSAs)
Monitoring the impact of communication activities
European Research Council
│ 29│ 29
Up-to-date InformationUp-to-date InformationERC website at http://erc.europa.eu ERC website at http://erc.europa.eu
NEW SECTION
Funded Projects
European Research Council
│ 30
ERC-funded Research & PIsERC-funded Research & PIsCase studies
• ERC website ‘Funded projects’ section: List with names of StG PIs and host institutions, grant size, duration,
project abstracts of 299 funded projects (1st call 2007) List with names of AdG PIs and host institutions of 282 retained
proposals ERC Starting Grant brochure with Case Studies
• Various brochures on Starting Grant case studiesproduced by national actors (e.g. in DE, AT, BE, FR)
• ERC StG event, 7 October 2008, ParisVideo of presentations & 2 discussion roundtables with 10 Starting Grantees http://www.canalc2.tv/video.asp?idEvenement=423
• ERC AdG event, 13 March 2009, IstanbulVideo of presentations, incl. several Advanced Grantees: www.fp7.org.tr/erc2009
• FP7 project database (FP IDEAS projects)http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html
European Research Council
PublicationsPublicationsCommunicating Frontier Research
ERC-dedicated Supplement Edition of “research*eu” available in EN, FR, ES, DE, CZ
Guide for Applicants, revision July 2009
Leaflet on ERC grant schemes (pocket size), pdf: July 2009; print: fall 2009
ERC Annual Report 2008, July/August 2009 ERC fact sheets, being updated and re-printed (fall 2009)
ERC Scientific Council Brochure fall 2009
Brochure on ERC Starting Grant with Case Studies reprint all 2009
Promotional video on ERC Starting Grantees, fall 2009
European Research Council
Events in 2009 & 2010 Events in 2009 & 2010 with active role of the ERC
• The Nobel Laureate meetings, Lindau, 28 June-3 July
• The Source event, London, 25 Sept, Berlin 4 Dec
• European Career Fair, Boston, Jan/Feb
• AAAS Annual Meeting 2010, San Diego, February
• International Career Fair, San Francisco, Feb/March
• ESOF2010, Torino, 2-7 July
• NCP National Information days, if staff available
European Research Council
För mer Information • www.vr.se• www.vinnova.se
NCPs
Ana Beramendi [email protected]
Gunnar Sandberg [email protected]
│ 33NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009
European Research Council
ERC emblematic postersERC emblematic posters
European Research Council
• Proposals checks Performed
• Eligibility• Re-application rule
Information sent to PE and SH applicants On-going for LS applicants Requests for redress received from PE applicants
• On re-application rule
• Step 1 evaluation Completed for PE and SH panels On-going for LS panels (panel meetings until mid-July) Results will be communicated to all applicants (July-August)
• Step 2 evaluation September-October
Advanced Grant 2009State of Play
European Research Council
│ 36
ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007, 2008 & 2009ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007, 2008 & 2009Submitted proposals by domain
Number of proposals Proposals by domain
37,1% 37,0% 35,3% 32,1%
48,1% 44,4% 46,0%46,7%
14,9% 18,5% 18,6% 21,2%
0%
50%
100%
2007 2009 2008 2009
Starting Grant Advanced Grant
Social Sciences & Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
+ +
+_
__3399
927 766 506
4406
1112997
736
1362
464404
335
0
2000
4000
6000
8000
10000
2007 2009 2008 2009
Starting Grant Advanced Grant
Social Sciences & Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
9167
25032167
1577
- 72,7 %
- 27 %
Proposals
European Research Council
Advanced Grant 2009Advanced Grant 2009Number of submitted proposals
Life Sciences
Social Sciences & Humanities
513
736
335
?
?
?
Submitted proposals Selected proposals
?Interdisciplinary
research
Physical Sciences & Engineering
∑ = 1584
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009Overview
Status June 2009 LS PE SH Grand TotalIneligible 19 28 8 55Passed to Step 2 247 247Satisfactory, beyond budget Step 1 367 367Unsatisfactory Step 1 93 93Withdrawn 1 1 2(blank) 494 326 820Grand Total 513 736 335 1584
European Research Council
Source: AdG 2009: 1584, 27.05.2009
AdG 2009 Submitted proposals
by country of host institution
(1584)
16
9610
221
3117
79
7
2118
3680
1822
14
1
3
11
1
3837102
31
64
146
161
307 GE: 1
RU: 1
CN: 1
1
4
1
2
3
1
European Research Council ERC Advanced Grant ERC Advanced Grant 20092009
Submissions from nationals of third countries
Argentinia
2
Australia
6
Canada
8
India
2
Japan 4Lebanon
1
New Zealand
4
Russia
13
USA
39
Ukraine
1
South Africa
2
Morroco
1
Georgia
1
European Research Council
• Age: mean: 52.7, min: 30, max: 81
• Gender: 14% women
• PhD: 99.4%
• Years after PhD: mean: 23.5, min: 1, max: 56
• Prof: 79.2%
Advanced Grant 2009Advanced Grant 2009Profile of Principal Investigator
European Research Council
Advanced Grant 2009Advanced Grant 2009Submitted proposals by panel and gender (%)
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9 PE1 PE2 PE3 PE4 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9 PE10 SH1 SH2 SH3 SH4 SH5 SH6
% o
f p
rop
os
als
Social Sciences &Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
AdG-09, May 2009
% Female candidates
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals by host country & domain
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
220
240
260
280
300
320
UK IT FR DE CH ES NL IL SE AT BE DK EL PL FI RO HU NO TR IE CZ PT SI BG SK EE HR IS CY CN GE LT LV ME MK RU
No
. of
pro
po
sals
Social Sciences & Humanities
Physical Sciences & Engineering
Life Sciences
AdG-09, 27 May 2009
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals by host country & gender
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
UK IT FR DE CH ES NL IL SE AT BE DK EL PL FI RO HU NO TR IE CZ PT SI BG SK EE HR IS CY CN GE LT LV ME MK RU
No
. of
Pro
po
sals
Male
Female
AdG-09, June 2009
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals by nationality & gender
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
UK IT DE FR ES IL NL SE BE CH EL US AT DK P L FI RO TR HU CZ IE RU NO BG CA P T SI AU HR EE IS J P NZ SK CY AR HK IN LU ZA GE LB LT MA ME MK UA
No
. of
Pro
po
sals
Male
Female
AdG-09, June 2009
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals – mobility
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
UK IT FR DE CH ES NL IL SE AT BE DK EL PL FI RO HU NO TR IE CZ PT SI BG SK EE HR IS CY CN GE LT LV ME MK RU
Country of Host Institution
No
. of
pro
po
sals
Staying
Moving
AdG-09, June 2009
6% intended mobility – moving from one country to another host country
European Research Council
AdG 2008/2009Submitted proposals
by country of host organisation
AdG-08
AdG-09
206
159
135
95
301
220
179
145
65
64
70
22
71
23
43
17
92
31
299
306
42
37
96
102
22
7
7
2141
79
29
18
32
21
16
162
1
2
0
2
1
4
3
28
18
33
30
17
10
63
36
107
80
29
11
158
44
4
3
1
0
5
3
2
1
1
0
0
1
ME AL
European Research Council
ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Eligibility check for Principal Investigators
Status1) PE SH LS Total
Withdrawn 1 1 0 2
Test proposals 2 2 4 8
Ineligible 3 3 52) 11
Not in compliance with resubmission rules
23 4 13 40
Total 29 10 22 61
1) Status as of 2 June 2009
2) Whereof 4 still in Committee