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European Research Council
For operational reasons : 25 panels in 3 main domainsPE: Physical Sciences, Engineering (10 panels)
LS: Life Sciences (9 panels)
SH: Social Sciences and Humanities (6 panels)
Plus one horizontal domain: Interdisciplinary
Allocation of Call budget per domain as follows:
PE domain: 39% (40%)
LS domain: 34% (35%)
SH domain : 14% (15%)
Interdisciplinary domain: 13% (10%)
Within domains, indicative budget is allocated to panels on a demand basis► probability of success independent of panel
Scientific DomainsScientific Domains
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Social Sciences and Humanities SH1 Individuals, institutions & markets SH2 Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour SH3 Environment & society SH4 The Human Mind and its complexity SH5 Cultures & cultural production SH6 The study of the human past
Physical Sciences & Engineering PE1 Mathematical foundations PE2 Fundamental constituents of matter PE3 Condensed matter physics PE4 Physical & Analytical Chemical sciences PE5 Materials & Synthesis PE6 Computer science & informatics PE7 Systems & communication engineering PE8 Products & process engineering PE9 Universe sciences PE10 Earth system science
Life Sciences LS1 Molecular & Structural Biology &
Biochemistry LS2 Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics &
Systems Biology LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology LS4 Physiology, Pathophysiology &
Endocrinology LS5 Neurosciences & neural disorders LS6 Immunity & infection LS7 Diagnostic tools, therapies & public health LS8 Evolutionary, population & environmental
biology LS9 Applied life sciences & biotechnology
ERC Panel Structure: 25 PanelsERC Panel Structure: 25 Panels
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Two step Evaluation
Step 1: •Only Part B1 is evaluated (PI and Project)•Evaluated by Panel Members and members of other panels (if interdisciplinary)•Proposals need to pass threshold to be retained to next Step •Only highly ranked proposals (and within 2-3 times the available budget for each Panel) are retained for step 2
Step 2
•Both Part B1 and B2 are evaluated against all three evaluation criteria•Proposals are evaluated by Panel Members and Remote Referees nominated by Panel Members
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Scientific Excellence is the sole criterion
• Only the criteria published in the Call are applied
• Evaluation of excellence at 3 levels:• Quality of principal investigator• Quality of the research project• Quality of research environment (at step 2)
• Referees and panels evaluate and score criteria 1 & 2 numerically which results in the ranking of the projects:
• 1-4 per criterion• threshold ≥ 2 per criterion
• Criteria 3 is considered as "pass/fail"
4: oustanding3: excellent2: very good1: non-competitive
Evaluation on ExcellenceEvaluation on Excellence
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Potential of the Principal Investigator: (last 10 years for AdG)
Quality of research output (track record, qualification, achievements, independence, reputation)
Intellectual capacity and creativity (collaborations, mentoring, challenge confrontation, initiative for new lines of thinking) and capacity to attract funding (AdG)
Quality of the research project:
Ground-breaking nature (challenges, ambition, trans-discipinarity, new concepts)
Potential impact (open new horizons, enhance frontier research in Europe)
Methodology (approach, timescale, resources, feasibility)
High risk/high gain balance (new or unconventional methodology, major breakthrough)
Research environment:
Contribution to the project (infrastructural and intellectual environment)
Participation of other legal entities (if added value to the proposal)
Evaluation CriteriaEvaluation Criteria
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InterdisciplinarityInterdisciplinarity
• Novel interdisciplinary approaches can open potentials for new fields of science and can contribute to the excellence of a proposal
• To overcome traditional, discipline-based review systems in fairly evaluating interdisciplinary proposals
• ERC has a specific approach (mainstreaming; Interdisciplinary Domain):
•ERC panels may only loosely follow disciplinary lines•Proposals can be assigned to members of other panels and to freely-chosen referees to better match expertise•13% of the budget is allocated to an ‘Interdisciplinary Domain’
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Review ProcessReview Process
Remote assessment by Panel members of section 1
Panel meeting
Proposals retained for step 2
STEP 1
Remote assessment by Panel members and reviewers of all sections
Panel meeting + interview (StG)
Ranked list of proposals
STEP 2
Consolidating Panel chairs meeting
Feedback toapplicants
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ERC Starting Grant: 2007, 2009, 2010 Submissions by call & domain
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4406
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+ 14.8%
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299 successful proposals
Awarded budgetabout € 335 million
559 proposals
8794 proposalsevaluated
(9167 submitted!)
Interviews
ERC Starting Grant 2007ERC Starting Grant 2007Two Step Evaluation ProcessTwo Step Evaluation Process
3.4% Success Rate*
*Based on evaluated proposals only
European Research Council ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call Eligible proposals by host country & gender Source: 8794 evaluated proposals
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Source: 300 proposals, 02.10.2008
ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call Selected proposals
by host countries
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237 successful proposals
Awarded budgetabout € 325 million
457 proposals
2392 proposalsevaluated
(2503 submitted)
Interviews
ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Two Step Evaluation ProcessTwo Step Evaluation Process
9.91% Success Rate*
*Based on evaluated proposals only
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ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009 Submitted proposals by country of host institution & gender
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StG 09, 2503 17 Dec. 2008
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StG 07-299, 05 Dec. 2008Source: StG-09 mainlist: 219, 25.06.2009
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Successful proposalsby country of host institution
Source: 219 selected proposals
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Source: All submitted proposals (9167) and 300 selected proposals (02.10.2008)
ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call Success rate of host countries Relation between submitted proposals (9167) and 300 selected proposals (02.10.2008)
Italy
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Statistics 2009 Submissions by nationality of PI
Submissions of Italian PI:
20.5 % of European (population 12.6 %)
Submissions of Italian PI in Italian HI:
80 % of the submission from italian PI (bigger than in similar countries)
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275 successful proposals
Awarded budgetabout € 542 million
648 proposals
2034proposalsevaluated
(2167 submitted)
ERC Advanced Grant 2008ERC Advanced Grant 2008Two Step Evaluation ProcessTwo Step Evaluation Process
13.52% Success Rate
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ERC Advanced Grant: 2008 call Top 256 candidates
by host countries
Source: 256 selected proposals (29 Sept. 2008)
European Research Council ERC Starting and Advanced grants: Host institutions in Italy and number of grants
• Universita’ di Bologna (1)
• CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEO • PER I CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI SCARL (1)
• Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (8)
• IFOM FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO FIRC DI ONCOLOGIA MOLECOLARE (2)
• Istituto Europeo di Oncologia S.r.l.(2)
• Politecnico di Milano (3)
• SISSA (2)
• Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (3)
• LUISS (1)• • European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (2)
• Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (2)
• Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (2)
• Universita’ di Milano Bicocca (1)
•Universita’ di Napoli (2)
•Università degli Studi di Padova (2)• •Università degli studi di Parma (3)
•Universita’ di Pavia (2)
•Universita’ di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ (7)
•Universita’ di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ (2)•Universita di Roma Tre (2)
•Sincrotrone Trieste SCpA
•European Brain Research Institute
•Fondazione Centro San Raffaele del Monte Tabor (4)
•Fondazione ISI
•Fondazione Telethon (2)
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (3 grants)
Universita degli Studi di Firenze (2)…………