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© Art & Build Architect / Montois Partners / credits: S. Brison

The European Research Council

ERCAn Overview with Focus

on the Czech Republic

Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNONERC President

Prague, 30 October 2014


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ERC after 7 Years


Investigator-driven progamme supporting frontier research through a bottom-up, pan-European competition in all fields of science and humanities

Evaluation is based strictly on the quality of the research proposal and of the principal investigator

Scientific governance is done by an independent Scientific Council of 22 members which has full authority over the funding strategy and the choice of the evaluators

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ERC in European Funding of Research


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

Proof-of-Concept bridging gap between research - earliest

stage of marketable innovation up to €150,000 for ERC grant holders

Consolidator Grants

consolidators (7-12 years after PhD)

up to € 2.75 Mio for 5 years

ERC Funding Schemes


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4 500 researchers funded (65% are at an early-career stage);

64 nationalities represented (EU has 28!)

ERC after 7 Years

Highly competitive (average success rate tending to 10%)

Grants located in almost 600 different institutions in 30 countries

50% of grantees in 50 institutions

Benchmarking effect: impact on national programmes and agencies; national funding for best "runners-up"

Efficient and fast grant management

Highly recognized by the research community beyond Europe

30,000 publications acknowledging ERC support by September 2014


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Priority to Young Scientists

Two-thirds of ERC grants to early-stage

Principal Investigators.


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Developing a New Generation

On average each ERC project team has six members.

2/3 of team members are in the initial phase of their

career.

+ 15 000 PhD and post-doc researchers working in

ERC teams.


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ERC Grants and Countries of HIERC calls 2007-2013

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

Over 4,300 projects have been selected, one fifth corresponding to women PIs.


Top European

Institutions Hosting

at least 30ERC

Grantees by Funding

Schemes

StG/CoG 2007-2013AdG 2008-2013

First legal signatories of the grant agreement

Data as of 21/08/2014


Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is the European Union's funding programme for research and innovation for 2014 – 2020 "supporting activities covering the whole spectrum from idea to market".

Three principal pillars: Excellent science Industrial leadership Societal challenges

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European Research Council Frontier research

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Horizon 2020 Excellent Science Pillar

Future and Emerging TechnologiesCollaborative research to open new fields of research and innovation

Marie Sklodowska Curie ActionsOpportunities for training and career development

Research Infrastructures (including e-infrastructures)Ensuring access to world-class facilities


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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ERC Delivers

30 000 publications acknowledging ERC support by September 2014

7% of these publications were in the top 1% most cited in their scientific field and year of publication

20% of completed LS and PE projects reported at least one patent (on average 2 patents reported per project)


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Czech Republic at ERC


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Proposals Based in the Czech Republic

344 proposals evaluated from researchers based at Czech HIs

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Total AdG proposals: 91 Total StG/CoG proposals: 173(without StG2007)

Evaluated Proposals from CR


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10 ERC Grants Based in the CR

Current host institutions; data as of 21/08/2014


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ERC Host Institutions in the CR



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ERC Grants versus Top Publications

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


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ERC Grants versus Global R&D Effort


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Mobility of Researchers


75 Czech researchers applied with a HI abroad (in 16 different countries)

12 Czech researchers hold an ERC grant abroad: AT (3), CH (3), UK (3), DE (2), FR (1)

3 foreign researchers holding an ERC grant in the Czech Republic


Success Rates per Country of HI

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


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Success Rates versus Applications


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EU13 Countries at ERC


│ 25Current host institutions; data as of 21.8.2014

Top HIs in EU13 Countries


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ERC Grants Based in EU13 Countries

88% of grantees in EU13 countries are nationals of the host country(70% for EU15)

85% of grantees in EU13 countries were resident in the host country at the time of application(90% for EU15)


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ERC Grants and Top Publications


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Success Rates by Area of HI

Share of EU13 public researchers in EU & AC = 16%

Share of EU13 research investment (GERD) in EU & AC = 3%


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Evaluation Outcome

Success rate step1 EU13: 7%Success rate step1 EU15: 22%

Success rate step2 EU13: 43%Success rate step2 EU15: 47%


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Successful EU13 Nationals in Calls


55% of EU13 nationals with a grant are based abroad


│ 31* Number of instances that experts of a certain country of origin are contributing to the ERC peer review

Averaged over the first 13 ERC calls 26% of the ERC panel members were women

International Participation to ERC Panels


Widening European Participation WG

• Contribute to a truly inclusive European culture of competitiveness in science

Increase participation in ERC calls of researchers from the EU’s less research-performing regions

Facilitate systematic debate and interactions among ERC grantees and young promising scientists from EU’s less research-performing regions

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ERC grants correlate very closely with national research investment and scientific output

Low application rates in general from most of EU13 countries and some evidence best researchers from EU13 not applying (Reputational risk? Sufficient national funding? ERC grants disrupt local systems?)

EU13 nationals applying from outside EU13 countries have same success rate as EU15 nationals

Proposals from EU13 countries have same success rate as proposals from EU15 countries at step 2 – the issue is not with interview or remote reviews

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Conclusions


More information onerc.europa.eu

National Contact Point in your country erc.europa.eu/national-contact-points

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EuropeanResearchCouncil

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ERC Scientific Council Working Groups & Standing Committees

Internationalisation

Open Access

Widening Participation

Innovation and relations with

industry

Key Performance Indicators

CoIME (Conflict of Interest &

Research integrity)

Committee on Panels

Gender balance

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