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Dr Núria Sebastian,

Vice-President of the

European Research Council

May 2015 │ 1


Support for the individual scientist – no networks!

Global peer-review

No predetermined subjects (bottom-up)

Support of frontier research in all fields of science

and humanities

The ERC supports excellence in frontier research through

a bottom-up, individual-based, pan-European competition

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What is ERC?

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Scientific governance: independent Scientific Council

with 22 members including the ERC President; full

authority over funding strategy

Support by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous)

Excellence as the only criterion

Budget: € 13 billion (2014-2020) - 1.9 billion €/year

€ 7.5 billion (2007-2013) - 1.1 billion €/year

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ERC Structure

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 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

• Administers scientific and financial aspects and follow-up of grant agreements

• Carries out communications activities and ensures information dissemination to ERC stakeholders

The ERC Scientific Council • 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


ERC in the H2020 Structure

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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ERC H2020 Budget

ERC Budget

€ 13 billion

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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 years

up 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

ERC Grant Schemes

Consolidator Grants

consolidators

(7-12 years after PhD)

up to € 2.75 Mio

for 5 years

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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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Creative Freedom to Individual Grantee

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Physical Sciences & Engineering

PE1 Mathematics

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

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Evaluation Panel Structure (WP2015)

Social Sciences and Humanities

SH1 Markets, individuals & institutions

SH2 The social world, diversity, institutions & values

SH3 Environment, space & population

SH4 The Human Mind and its complexity

SH5 Cultures & cultural production

SH6 The study of the human past


After 8 Years of Existence…

A Success Story

Highly recognised by the research community

Over 4 300 top researchers funded during FP7 (2007-2013)

65% are at an early-career stage

Other 375 young researchers selected in the Starting 2014 call

and 372 young researchers selected in the Consolidator 2014 call

66 nationalities represented

Highly competitive (overall success rate tending to 10%)

Working in almost 600 different institutions in 32 countries

50% of grantees in 50 institutions : “Excellence attracts excellence”

Benchmarking effect: impact on national programmes and agencies;

national funding for best "runners-up"

Efficient and fast grant management


FP7 - Success Rates Per Country of Host Institution

*) First legal signatories of the first grant agreement taken into account │ 10


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Priority to Young Scientists

Two-thirds of ERC

grants to early-stage

Principal

Investigators.

+ 15 000 PhD

and post-doc

researchers working

in ERC teams.


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Attracting Researchers to Europe

Nationality of ERC project teams (PIs not included) Analysis of 995 Starting and Advanced Grants

53% of non-ERA team members ''attracted'' to Europe with the ERC grant (10% of all team members)

Most non-ERA from China, US, India,

and Russia

EU: 67%

Assoc. Countries: 12%

non-ERA: 18%

unknown: 3%


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May-Britt

Moser

The Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine

2014 was awarded to May-Britt Moser

and Edvard Moser, together with John

O'Keefe,

"for their discoveries of cells that

constitute a positioning system in the

brain”. The research leading to these discoveries

was supported by FP5. ("Spatial Representation in the Entorhinal Cortex”

Science 2004) Edvard Moser

The Nobel Prize in

Economic Sciences 2014

was awarded to Jean

Tirole "for his analysis

of market power and

regulation". Jean Tirole Two of the Fields Medals

2014 awarded to researchers

based in Europe: Artur Avila

"for his work in dynamical

systems” and to Martin

Hairer “for his work on

stochastic singularities”.

Artur Avila

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Martin Hairer

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2014 Distinctions to ERC Grantees


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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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FP7 ERC Panel Members by

Country of HI and Gender

Averaged over the first 13

ERC calls 26% of the ERC

panel members were women


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FP7 ERC Grants versus

Top Publications

*) Host institution refers to the current host organisation of the grant; data as of 12/01/2015 │ 16


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FP7 ERC Grant Distribution

vs. R&D Expenditure


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FP7 Mobility of Researchers

Current host institutions; data as of 12/01/2015

57 foreign PIs in Spain of 21 different

nationalities, mainly IT (15) and DE (10)

48 Spanish PIs abroad,

mainly in UK (21), CH (7), FR (7) and DE (6)

173 Spanish PIs in Spain


FP7 Top

European

Institutions

Hosting

at least 30

ERC

Grantees

by Funding

Schemes

ERC calls 2007-2013

First legal

signatories

of the grant

agreement

Data as of 12/01/2015

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FP7 - Funded Projects

from Host Institutions in Spain

Ineligible and withdrawn proposals not taken into account


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Top Host Institutions in Spain

Current host institutions; data as of 12/01/15



per region in Spain

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FP7 ERC projects in Spa in by region AdG StG/CoG LS PE SH T ota l PoC

Madrid 21 37 23 27 8 58 1

Castilla y Leon 1 1 1 1

Cata lonia 45 69 37 47 30 114 11

Aragon 1 4 5 5

Va lencia 3 7 7 3 10

Murcia 1 1 2 2

Anda lusia 2 9 6 5 11

Navarra 2 3 2 3 5

Basque Country 4 9 1 10 2 13

Asturias 2 1 1 2

Galicia 1 7 4 4 8

Canary Islands 1 1 1

Total 80 150 83 104 43 230 13


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ERC grants currently in Ca ta lonia

Host Institution AdG StG/CoG T ota l LS PE SH PoC

Pompeu Fabra University 10 9 19 3 4 12

University of Barce lona 4 9 13 2 6 5 1

Centre for Genomic Regula tion 3 8 11 11 1

Institute of Photonics Science 3 8 11 11 3

Autonomous University of Barce lona 3 4 7 1 2 4 1

Institute for Research in Biomedicine 4 3 7 6 1

Institute of Chemica l Research of Ca ta lonia 2 5 7 7

Centre for Research in Inte rna tiona l Economy 3 3 6 6

Cata lan Institute of Nanotechnology 4 4 4

CSIC 1 3 4 4

International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering 3 1 4 4

Private Fundation Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia 3 3 3 2

Va ll d'Hebron Institute of Oncology 1 2 3 3 1

Barce lona Supercomputing Center 2 2 1 1

MOVE (Markets, Organizations and Votes in Economics) 1 1 2 2

University of Girona 2 2 2 1

Be llvitge Institute of Biomedica l Research 1 1 1

Cata lan Institute of Oncology (ICO) 1 1 1

Centre for Demographic Studies 1 1 1

Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology 1 1 1

CSIC- IRT A Plant Molecula r Gene tics Labora tory 1 1 1

Institute for High Energy Physics 1 1 1

Mar Institute of Medica l Research Foundation 1 1 1

T echnica l University of Ca ta lonia 1 1 1

University of Lle ida 1 1 1 1

T ota l 45 69 114 37 47 30 11


Host Institutions in Catalonia


Initiated to help ERC grant-holder to bridge the gap

between their research and the earliest stage of a

marketable innovation

Supporting grant-holders during the pre-demonstration

Up to 150.000 Euro per grant

FP7 ERC Proof of Concept

Frontier Research and Innovation

2011 2012 2013 TOTAL in FP7

Submitted 151 143 292 586

Evaluated* 139 120 279 538

Funded 51 60 67 178

* withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account


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FP7 PoC Grants by Country of HI ERC PoC calls 2011-2013: 178 grants

ERC calls 2007-2013: 4354 grants

FP7: 13 PoC Grants in Spain


H2020 – Evaluated proposals

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StG/CoG2014: -17% AdG 2014: - 5%


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H2020 ERC StG 2014

Funded Projects by Country of HI

StG2014 success rate: 11.7 %

First ERC grants

in RO and RS

22 StG2014 Grants in Spain


H2020 ERC StG 2014

Success rate per gender and domain

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CoG2014 success rate: 15%

H2020 ERC CoG 2014

Funded Projects by Country of HI

32 CoG2014 grants in Spain


H2020 ERC CoG 2014

Success rate per gender and domain

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Horizon 2020: ERC PoC 2014

14 PoC 2014 grants in Spain


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