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Work Programme 2017

StG, CoG and AdG Calls

Madrid, July 4, 2016

Jose M Fernandez de Labastida

Head Scientific Management Department


Contents

• Introduction

• ERC impact and achievements

• Work Programme 2017

• Spain at ERC

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Introduction

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Introduction ERC in H2020

The HORIZON 2020 main components:

Excellent Science

World class science is foundation of technologies, jobs, well-being

Europe needs to develop, attract, retain research talent

Researchers need access to the best infrastructures

Industrial leadership

Societal challenges

Excellent Science:

European Research Council (budget under H2020: € 13 billion)

Future and Emerging Technologies

Marie Skłodoswka Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

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Introduction ERC objective

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The European Research Council (ERC) shall provide attractive and flexible

funding to enable talented and creative individual researchers and their

teams to pursue the most promising avenues at the frontier of science, on

the basis of Union-wide competition.

H2020 Regulation


Introduction ERC H2020 Budget

ERC Budget

€ 13 billion

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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 Scientific Council • Up to 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

The ERC Executive Agency • Executes annual work programme as established by

the Scientific Council

• Implements calls for proposals

• Organises peer review evaluation

• Establishes and manages grant agreements

• Administers scientific and financial aspects

• Carries out communications activities

Introduction ERC Structure

ERC

European

Commission

Scientific

Council

Executive

Agency


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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Introduction Creative Freedom to Individual Grantee

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ERC impact and achievements

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ERC after nine years

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After 9 years

a success story


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ERC impact and achievement Publication Performance


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ERC impact and achievements Priority to Young Scientists

Two-thirds of ERC

grants to early-stage

Principal Investigators.

+ 27 000 PhD and

post-doc researchers

working in ERC teams.


Work Programme 2017

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Starting Grants

starters

(2-7 years after PhD)

up to € 1.5 Mio

for 5 years

Advanced Grants track-record of

significant research

achievements in the

last 10 years

up to € 2.5 Mio

for 5 years

Consolidator Grants

consolidators

(7-12 years after PhD)

up to € 2 Mio

for 5 years

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Work Programme 2017 ERC frontier research funding schemes


Work Programme 2017 ERC frontier research funding schemes

Starting Grant (StG): nurturing the next generation research leaders.

To support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting

their own independent research team or programme.

Advanced Grant (AdG): attracting and rewarding established independent research

leaders.

To support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already

established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements.

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Consolidator Grant (CoG): consolidating the next generation research leaders.

To support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be

consolidating their own independent research team or programme.

Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate

the ground breaking nature, ambition and feasibility

of their scientific proposal.


PI Profile:

Any current place of work but working or moving to work in Europe (EU member

state or H2020 Associated Country)

Any nationality or age

StG: 2 and up to 7; CoG: 7 and up to 12 years of experience after PhD; AdG: no

constraints

Potential (StG) or evidence (CoG) for independence and maturity; strong

leadership (AdG)

Good track-record appropriate to their research field and career stage

Work Programme 2017 Principal investigator profile and commitment

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PI Commitment:

Minimum 50% (StG), 40% (CoG), 30% (AdG) of PI working time on ERC project

Minimum 50% of PI working time in a EU Member Sate or Associated Country


Starting Grant (StG): Up to 1.5 million € for a period of 5 years (pro rata for projects of shorter

duration). Up to 0.5 million € additional

Advanced Grant (AdG): Up to 2.5 million € for a period of 5 years (pro rata for projects of shorter


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Consolidator Grant (CoG): Up to 2.0 million € for a period of 5 years (pro rata for projects of shorter


to cover (a) eligible "start-up" costs for Principal Investigators moving

from a another country to the EU or an Associated Country as a

consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or (b) the purchase of

major equipment and/or (c) access to large facilities.

additional

Work Programme 2017 Funding


• Is located in an EU Member State or an Associated Country

• Hosts the PI for the duration of the project

• Is a legal entity: university, research center, business research

unit, etc.

• Is committed to ensure that the PI may:

o Apply for funding independently

o Manage research and funding project

o Publish independently as senior author

o Have access to reasonable space and facilities

• Signs Grant Agreement

• Overhead: 25%

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Work Programme 2017 Role of the host institution


• No constraints on eligible costs as long as they are for the

execution of the project

• Rules of the HI apply

• High flexibility: aims of the project can be modified through

amendments to the grant agreement

• Grants have a light reporting along the project life-time: financial

report every 18 months, scientific report at mid-term and end of

the project

• Grants have 25-40% pre-financing

• PI is empowered to manage the research activity and the funds

of the project

• Grants are portable

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Work Programme 2017 Features of the ERC grants


PART A – online forms

A1 Proposal and PI info

A2 Host Institution info

A3 Budget

PART B2 – submitted as .pdf

• Scientific Proposal 15 p.

Annexes – submitted as .pdf

• Statement of support of HI

• If applicable: explanatory

information on ethical issues;

copy of PhD (StG, CoG);

document for extension of

eligibility window (StG, CoG)

PART B1 – submitted as .pdf

• Extended Synopsis 5 p.

• CV 2 p.

• Track Record 2 p.

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Work Programme 2017 Proposal strucure


Goal of the evaluation: select the best frontier research proposals

Only evaluation criteria: excellence

Method: peer review

Structure: 25 panels distributed in 3 scientific domains (10 Physical

Sciences, 9 Life sciences and 6 Social Sciences and Humanities)

Each panel consists of 1 panel chair and 12-16 panel members

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Peers

Review procedure

What makes

ERC evaluation

exceptional?

Work Programme 2017 Evaluation of proposals: main features


Physical Sciences & Engineering

PE1 Mathematics

PE2 Fundamental Constituents of Matter

PE3 Condensed Matter Physics

PE4 Physical & Analytical Chemical Sciences

PE5 Synthetic Chemistry & Materials

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, Therapies, Applied Medical

Technology & Public Health

LS8 Evolutionary, Population & Environmental

Biology

LS9 Applied Life Sciences & Non-Medical

Biotechnology

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Social Sciences and Humanities

SH1 Individuals, Markets & Organizations

SH2 Institutions, Values, Environment and Space

SH3 The Social World, Diversity & Population

SH4 The Human Mind and its Complexity

SH5 Cultures & Cultural Production

SH6 The Study of the Human Past

Work Programme 2017 ERC panel strcuture


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• Panel members: typically 300 / call

Excellent scientists

Recruited by ScC from all over the world:

~12% from outside Europe

About 12-16 members per panel plus a

chair person

Experts are active in alternating years

• Referees: typically 1500 / call

Recruited by panel members

Evaluate only one or two proposals

Best expert in the world on the research

topic of the proposal

Europe and Associated

Countries

(88%)

US (8%)

Other

(4%)

Chain of excellence

ERA

(88%)

Work Programme 2017 Evaluation of proposals: peers


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

Averaged over the first 19

ERC calls 27% of the ERC

panel members were women

Work Programme 2017 ERC panel members


Remote assessment by Panel members

of section 1 – PI and synopsis

Panel meeting

Proposals retained

for step 2

STEP 1

Remote assessment by Panel members

and reviewers of full proposals

Panel meeting + interview (StG and CoG)

Ranked list of

proposals

STEP 2

Feedback to

applicants

• Right balance between generalist + specialized review

• Appropriate treatment of interdisciplinary proposals

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Work Programme 2017 Evaluation of proposals: review procedure


Step1:

o A: is of sufficient quality to pass to Step 2 of the evaluation,.

o B: is of high quality but not sufficient to pass to Step 2 of the evaluation.

o C: is not of sufficient quality to pass to Step 2 of the evaluation.

Step 2:

o A: fully meets the ERC's excellence criterion and is recommended for

funding if sufficient funds are available.

o B: meets some but not all elements of the ERC's excellence criterion and

will not be funded.

Applicants receive the evaluation report that contains the panel

comments and the individual assessment reports by the reviewers.

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Work Programme 2017 Scores of the evaluated proposals


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Resubmission rules for 2017 applicants:

• Those who received a B in Step 1 of StG, CoG or AdG

calls under Work Program 2016 are not eligible

• Those who received a C in Step 1 of StG, CoG or AdG

calls under Work Programs 2015 or 2016 are not

eligible

Work Programme 2017 Resubmission restrictions


Aim:

To maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding

further work to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded

projects (technical validation, market research, clarifying IPR strategy,

investigating business opportunities, etc.)

Eligibility:

Holders of an ERC grant with an idea substantially drawn from an ERC-funded

project. Researchers whose ERC grant ended less than 12 months before the

publication date of the call are also eligible.

Size:

Up to €150,000 over 18 (12) months

Evaluation:

Single panel made of technology-transfer experts

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Work Programme 2017 ERC Proof of Concept


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Work Programme 2017 H2020 ERC Proof of Concept


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ERC calls Submission Deadline(s)

Starting Grants ERC-2017-StG

October 2016

Consolidator Grants ERC-2017-CoG

February 2017

Advanced Grants ERC-2017-AdG

September 2017

Proof of Concept ERC-2017-PoC

DL1: January 2017

DL2: April 2017

DL3: September 2017

Work Programme 2017 Dates (aprox.)


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Panel titles and descriptors have been slightly modified.

Participation in the H2020 Pilot on Open Research Data is

the default, applicants can request to opt-out

Work Programme 2017 Novelties


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Spain at ERC


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StG+CoG

AdG

Total

Spain at ERC Evolution of the number of grants with Spanish HI

Total: 343 grants

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2013: 14 StG and 20 CoG

2014: 22 StG and 32 CoG

2015: 12 StG and 18 CoG


7,7% 7,8%

5,7% 5,6%

4,6%

5,6%

7,7%

4,6%

5,0% 4,9% 4,8% 5,0% 4,7% 4,6%

6,8%

4,3%

0,0%

1,0%

2,0%

3,0%

4,0%

5,0%

6,0%

7,0%

8,0%

9,0%

StG+CoG

AdG

Spain at ERC Evolution of the % of grants with Spanish HI

2013: 4,7% in StG and 6,4% in CoG

2014: 6,7% in StG and 8,6% in CoG

2015: 3,4% in StG and 6,0% in CoG


567

227 234

350

454

799

581

374 426

134 96 130 129

216 294

190 157

701

323 364

479

670

1093

771

531

0

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

2007-2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

StG+CoG

AdG

Total

Spain at ERC Evolution of the number of applications with

Spanish HI

2013: 354 StG + 445 CoG

2014: 283 StG + 298 CoG

2015: 203 StG + 171 CoG

2016: 226 StG + 200 CoG

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6,2%

9,1% 8,1%

8,6%

9,6% 11,4% 10,0%

7,5%

8,1%

6,2% 6,1% 6,5%

5,6%

9,4%

12,2%

8,8%

8,0%

0,0%

2,0%

4,0%

6,0%

8,0%

10,0%

12,0%

14,0%

StG+CoG

AdG

Spain at ERC Evolution of the % of applications with Spanish HI

2013: 10,7% in StG and 12,4% in CoG

2014: 8,6% in StG and 11,8% in CoG

2015: 6,9% in StG and 8,3% in CoG

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Spain at ERC FP7 ERC Grants versus Top Publications

*) Host institution refers to the current host organisation of the grant; data as of 27/04/2016

4,354 Starting, Consolidator and Advanced

grants awarded by ERC during FP7


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Spain at ERC H2020 ERC Funded Projects by Country of HI


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Spain at ERC Grantees at home and abroad

265 PIs with Spanish nationality in Spain

75 foreign grantees in Spain: IT(18), DE(10), US(6) …

74 Spanish PIs abroad in UK(32), FR(11), CH(10), DE(8) …


Top

European

Institutions

Hosting

ERC

Grantees

by Funding

Schemes

ERC calls 2007-2015

Current signatories

of the grant

agreement

Data as of

27/04/2016


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Spain at ERC ERC calls 2007-2015, top Host Institutions

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4

4

6

2

4

5

2

6

8

9

8

8

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Centre for Research in International Economy

University of the Basque Country

Universidad de Zaragoza

University of Santiago de Compostela

Institute for Research in Biomedicine

Autonomous University of Madrid

Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre

Autonomous University of Barcelona

ICFO-Institute of Photonics Sciences

University of Barcelona

Centre for Genomic Regulation

Pompeu Fabra University

Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

StG

CoG

AdG

Current Host Institutions (data as of 27/04/2016)


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