Ben Turner

ERC Executive Agency

November 2013

ERC in Horizon 2020

What is ERC?

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Organisations' share of scientific articles in top 10% of most highly cited (in their respective research fields)

ERC mission: "to reinforce excellence, dynamism and creativity in European research"

What is ERC?

The European Commission•Provides financing through the EU framework programmes•Guarantees autonomy, 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• Carries out communications activities

The ERC Scientific Council• 22 prominent researchers proposed by an independent identification committee

and appointed by the Commission (4 years, renewable once)• Establishes overall scientific strategy• Ensures communication with the scientific community

The ERC supports the best researchers to do the best research.

Budget2007 – 2013€ 7.5billion 1.1 billion €/year

2014 – 2020€13 billion 1.9 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 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

Social Sciences & Humanities

6 panels

Individuals, institutions and marketsInstitutions, values, beliefs and behaviourEnvironment, space and populationThe Human MindCultures and cultural productionThe study of the human past

ERC evaluation - 25 panels for all areas of science

Physical MathematicsSciences Fundamental constituents of matter& Condensed matter physicsEngineering Physical and analytical chemical sciences

Synthetic chemistry and materials10 panels Computer science and informatics

Systems and communication engineering Products and processes engineering Universe sciences Earth system science

Life Molecular and structural biology and biochemistrySciences Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology

Cellular and developmental biology9 panels Physiology, pathophysiology and endocrinology

Neurosciences and neural disordersImmunity and infectionDiagnostic tools, therapies and public healthEvolutionary, population and environmental biologyApplied life sciences and biotechnology

After first seven years…

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Over 40 000 proposals received

Over 4 000 world class researchers funded

20122010

1987

20052000

2007 2009 2010 2010

2011 2012

2010

2012

2010

Serge Haroche

KonstantinNovoselov

Ada Yonath

Andre Geim

Christoforos Pissarides

Theodor Hansch

James Heckman

Jean-Marie Lehn

2012

2009

Over 550 Host Institutions in 29 countries

Over 20 000 papers acknowledging ERC support

Already over 20,000 papers acknowledging ERC support published in international, peer reviewed journals.

* Thomson Reuters, WoS, Oct 2013

Lessons learned

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Highly competitive

Top European

Institutions hosting

at least 30ERC

Grantees by funding

Schemes

StG 2007-2013AdG 2008-2013

First legal signatories of the grant agreement

Data as of 09/09/2013

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Developing a new generation of excellent scientists

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ERC grants - mobility of researchers

Current host institutions; data as of 09/09/2013

ERC grants share to population share

ERC grants share to research investment share

Expected value = 1,0

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Success rate to applications

Looking ahead

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Strengthening the Scientific Governance of the European Research Council Strengthening 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 ERCEA Strengthening 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”

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

Horizon 2020 - ERC changes and continuity

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 € 77 billion ERC budget € 13 billion

Horizon 2020 - budget

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Three ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2014: Starting; Consolidator; and Advanced Grants.

The two streams of what was previously known as the ERC Starting Grant were divided into two separate calls under Work Programme 2013.

The Scientific Council will analyse the pilot phase of the ERC Synergy Grant (calls were made under Work Programmes 2012 and 2013) before deciding on the scope and timing of future calls. There will be no call under Work Programme 2014.

Extension of restrictions on applications will apply to the 2015 calls based on the outcome of the evaluation of the 2014 calls.

ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant, first introduced under the revised Work Programme 2011.

Indicative budget for 2015 to help the research community to plan applications.

Work Programme 2014 – summary of main features

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Starting

Grant

Consolidator

Grant

Advanced

Grant

Proof of Concept Grant

Call identifier ERC-2014-StG ERC-2014-CoG ERC-2014-AdG ERC-2014-PoC

Publication date11 December 2013

11 December 2013

17 June 201411 December 2013

Deadline(s) 25 March 2014 20 May 2014 21 October 20141 April 2014

1 October 2014

Budget million EUR

(estimated number of grants)

485

(370)

713

(400)

450

(200)

15

(100)

Planned dates to inform applicants

21 July 2014

21 November 2014

31 October 2014

15 January 2015

10 March 2015

28 April 2015

31 July 2014

13 January 2015

Indicative date for signature of grant agreements

21 March 2015 15 May 2015 28 August 2015

31 November 2014

13 May 2015

Work Programme 2014 – call planning

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Additional slides

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ERC grants by host institution

About 50 organisations host 50 % of the Grants. There are 78 Organisations which host 10 or more Grants. Together they

account for 60 % of all ERC Grants.

ERC grants are concentrated

ERC grants are concentrated …. BUT competitive research funding identifies "pockets of excellence"

NI > 1.75

NI equal or above world average

NI lower than world average

SCIMAGO Label of Research Impact

Of the 392 Organizations hosting ERCGrantees which could be matched to

SCIMAGO 2012

60

57

275

Nr Institutions Nr Grantees

995

1,719

115

NB: 124 organizations hosting about 260 Grantees could not be matched in SCIMAGO

ERC grants by host institution

Publications Contribution to 10% most cited publications

worldwide (top ERA countries)

CH 18.2IS 17.7DK 17.5NL 17.1BE 15.8US 15.3SE 14.7UK 14.7AT 14.5IE 14.4NO 14.3DE 13.8FI 13.7IL 12.9FR 12.7

ERC grants to top 10% publications

ERC Grants by country of host institution: StG 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and AdG 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. Showing all host countries. "ERA" is EU27 plus AC host countries. Scientific publications within the 10% most cited worldwide from Commission Innovation Union Competitiveness Report 2011 (2007 publications Science Metrix/ Scopus -Elsevier full counting method).