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Established by the European Commission
FP7 IDEAS Programme
The European Research Council 2007 – 2012: An overview with focus on Italy
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Raphael: The School of Athens(1510-1511)
The early European Research Area
For Excellence, the best framework conditions are needed
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Consiglio europeo della Ricerca (ERC)
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• Budget 2013: 1,741 miliardi €• Sovvenzioni: max 2,5 milioni € per progetto• Beneficiari: ricercatori di ogni nazionalita',disciplina e eta' (almeno 2 anni post-doc), per progetti da svolgere in un paese UE o in uno dei paesi associati all VII PQ
• Sostegno a singoli ricercatori (no networks/consorzi)• Criteri di selezione: eccellenza scientifica• Panels di selezione internazionali (peer review)• Nessuna priorita' tematica
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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
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ERC Scientific Council Members
Prof. Don DingwellERC Secretary General
• Prof. Klaus BOCK (Chemistry)• Prof. Nicholas CANNY (History)• Prof. Sierd A.P.L. CLOETINGH (Earth Sciences)• Prof. Tomasz DIETL (Physics)• Prof. Daniel DOLEV (Computer Sciences) • Prof. Athene DONALD (Biological Physics) • Prof. Carlos M. DUARTE (Biology)• Dr. Barbara ENSOLI (Medicine)• Prof. Daniel ESTEVE (Physics)• Prof. Pavel EXNER (Applied Mathematics & Mathematical Physics), ERC Vice President• Prof. Reinhard GENZEL(Astrophysics)• Prof. Carl-Henrik HELDIN (Molecular Cell Biology), ERC Vice President• Prof. Timothy HUNT (Biology)• Prof. Matthias KLEINER (Engineering)• Prof. Eva KONDOROSI (Biology)• Prof. Nuria SEBASTIAN GALLES (Psychology) • Prof. Helga NOWOTNY (Science and Technology Studies), ERC President• Prof. Alain PEYRAUBE (Linguistics) • Prof. Mart SAARMA (Biology)• Prof. Anna TRAMONTANO (Biochemistry)• Prof. Isabelle VERNOS (Molecular and Cell Biology) • Prof. Reinhilde VEUGELERS (Economics)
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FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion; Increase by € 250 M/year
Co-operation (65 %)
Ideas (15 %)
People (9 %)
Capacities (8 %)JRC non-
nuclear (3 %)
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ERC: tre tipi di sovvenzioni
Starting e Consolidators Grants Advanced Grants
StG 2010AdG 2010
• Attirare/trattenere in Europa le prossime generazioni di leaders scientifici
• Favorire l’indipendenza dei giovani talenti • Stabilire team e programmi di ricerca
indipendenti• Max 2 Milioni € per 5 anni
• Attirare/trattenere in Europa i migliori scienziati
• Stimolare importanti scoperte scientifiche• Max. € 2.5 Milioni per 5 anni
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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 researchachievements 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
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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 of the individual grantee
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Top applicants - countries of host institutions ERC Starting and Consolidator Grant calls 2007-2013ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2013
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ERC Competitions 2007-2012
Data as of 08/04/2013
Evaluated* Funded success rates**
Starting Grant 2007 9,167 8,787 299 3.4
Starting Grant 2009 2,503 2,392 245 10.2
Starting Grant 2010 2,873 2,767 436 15.8
Starting Grant 2011 4,080 4,005 486 12.1
Starting Grant 2012 4,741 4,652 566 12.2
Starting Grant 23,364 22,603 2,032 10.7
Advanced Grant 2008 2,167 2,034 282 13.9
Advanced Grant 2009 1,584 1,526 245 16.1
Advanced Grant 2010 2,009 1,967 271 13.8
Advanced Grant 2011 2,284 2,245 301 13.4
Advanced Grant 2012 2,304 2,269 321 14.1
Advanced Grant 10,348 10,041 1,420 14.3
Proof of Concept 2011 - 1&2 151 139 51 36.7
Proof of Concept 2012 - 1&2 143 120 60 50.0
Proof of Concept 294 259 111 43.3
Synergy Grant 2012 710 697 11 1.6 * withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account
** percentage of funded proposals in relation to evaluated proposals
Total number of applications
of which
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Over 3400 grants awarded after 10 StG and AdG calls(one fifth to women PIs)
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Highly competitive: Average success rate 12%
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ERC grant distribution to countries of HIERC Starting and Advanced grant calls 2007-2012
*) Host institution refers to the organisation with which the first grant agreement was signed
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Top European
Institutions
hosting at least 25
ERC Grantees
by funding Schemes
StG 2007-2012AdG 2008-2012
First legal signatories of the grant agreement
Data as of 08/04/2013
Country Higher-Education Institution No StG AdG Total LS PE SH
UK University of Cambridge 1 54 40 94 31 49 14
UK University of Oxford 2 47 43 90 26 43 21
UK University College London 3 42 27 69 28 14 27
CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) 4 38 30 68 19 48 1
CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) 5 22 41 63 21 40 2
IL Hebrew University of Jerusalem 6 33 24 57 25 21 11
IL Weizmann Institute 7 31 21 52 30 21 1
UK Imperial College 8 28 23 51 20 31
BE University of Leuven 9 25 10 35 10 17 8
DE University of Munich 10 12 21 33 15 12 6
UK University of Edinburgh 11 17 15 32 8 13 11
UK University of Bristol 12 13 17 30 6 19 5
NL University of Amsterdam 13 15 14 29 3 8 18
NL Leiden University 13 15 14 29 1 15 13
FI University of Helsinki 14 16 12 28 19 7 2
IL Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 15 21 6 27 9 18
DK University of Copenhagen 16 15 11 26 9 11 6
CH University of Zurich 17 12 13 25 15 5 5
NL Radboud University Nijmegen 17 17 8 25 8 8 9
SE Karolinska Institute 17 15 10 25 24 1
Country Research Organisation No StG AdG Total LS PE SH
FR National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) 1 121 57 178 47 103 28
DE Max Planck Society 2 54 37 91 49 36 6
FR National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) 3 28 13 41 41
FR French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission 4 30 7 37 6 30 1
ES Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 5 19 11 30 13 12 5
FR National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) 6 17 12 29 29
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Success rates per country of Host InstitutionERC Starting and Advanced Grant calls 2007-2012
*) First legal signatories of the first grant agreement taken into account
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Nationals at home and abroadERC Starting and Advanced Grant calls 2007-2012
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Mobility of researchersERC Starting and Advanced Grant calls 2007-2012
Current host institutions; data as of 08/04/2013
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Evaluated Proposals from hosts in ItalyERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2013ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2013
Ineligible and withdrawn proposals not taken into account; *) all submitted for 2013 calls
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Granted proposals at HI in ItalyERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008-2012
* current host institutions; data as of 08/04/2013
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Top Host institution in ItalyERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 – 2012
* current host institutions; data as of 08/04/2013
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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 One step evaluation
First call in Autumn 2011 with 2 deadlines Second call in 2012 with 2 deadlines Third call in 2013 (deadlines 24 April and 3 October)
Frontier research and innovation: ERC Proof of Concept
2011 2012
Total applications 151 143
Evaluated* 139 120
Funded 51 60
* withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account
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PoC scheme was introduced in 2011 to allow researchers who are already ERC grant holders to bridge the gap between their research and the earliest stage of an innovation
ERC Proof of Concept – areas of application
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Speeding up the discovery process: ERC Synergy grant
2012 work programme on a pilot basis 2 – 4 Principal Investigators; complementary skills,
knowledge & resources; to jointly address frontier research problems
Up to €15m for up to six year
Based on ERC principles (no consortia, no networks):• bottom-up and risk-taking• driven by scientific demand• PIs expected to spend significant “core time” together • only one Host Institution, but groups not required to be
physically located in the same place
710 submissions to the first SyG Call; 1.6% success rate 449 submissions to the second SyG Call
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Developing a new generation of excellent scientists 2/3 of staff are people in the training phase of their career(Analysis of 636 on-going projects)
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Attracting excellent researchersComposition of ERC teams (PIs not included)
Breakdown by nationality (97)(sample of 636 Starting and Advanced projects)
EU: 69% Assoc. Countries: 11%
non-ERA: 17% unknown: 3%
Most non-ERA from China, US, India,
and Russia
50% of non-ERA team members ''attracted'' to
Europe with the ERC grant
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Nobel prize Nobel prize in physics in physics
20102010
KonstantinNovoselov
Uni of Manchester (Graphene)
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Fields Medals Fields Medals 2010 2010
Cédric VillaniInstitut Henri
Poincaré
Stanislav Smirnov
Geneva Uni.
Ngô Bảo Châu
Université Paris-Sud
Elon LindenstraussHebrew Univ.
*4 European winners in “Science” categories”
Wolf Prize Wolf Prize 2010* 2010*
ERC Grantee
AdG2008
David Baulcombe
Cambridge Univ.(Agriculture)
Axel Ullrich Max Planck (Medecine)
Alain AspectInst. d’Optique,
Palaiseau(Physics)
Anton ZeillingerVienna Univ.
(Physics)
ERC Grantee
AdG2008
ERC Grantee
AdG2010
ERC Grantee
AdG2008
L’Oréal-L’Oréal-UNESCOUNESCO
Award for Women Award for Women in Sciencein Science
ERC Grantee
AdG2008
Anne L’HuillierLund University
Physical Sciences
"Despite being a new, and thus untried instrument, the ERC has manifestly succeeded in attracting and
funding world-class research and is playing an important role in anchoring research talent." .
The independent interim evaluation of FP7
ERC Grantee
AdG2010ERC G
rantee
StG 2007
Andre GeimUni of
Manchester (Graphene)
The ERC attracts high calibre scientists
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ERC prospects for the futureRising applications
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HORIZON 2020
HORIZON 2020 structure: Excellence Science Industrial leadership Societal challenges EIT JRC
Excellent Science: reinforcing and extending the excellence of the EU’s science base and consolidating ERA to make EU’s R&I system more competitive on a global scale European Research Council (budget proposal under H2020: € 15 billion) Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Curie Research Infrastructures
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
under
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 - New actions 2014-20
• MC will continue as the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
• Funding levels ~maintained • Broad Schemes ~maintained• Simplification in Implementation ~• Bi-Annual Work programmes
• Excellent Science - Priority I European Research Council Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Infrastructures
• Industrial leadership - Priority II Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Access to risk finance Innovation in SMEs
• Societal challenges - Priority III Health, demographic change and wellbeing Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research, bio-economy Secure, clean and efficient energy Smart, green and integrated transport Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
• EIT
• JRC non-nuclear action
Horizon 2020
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actionsunder Horizon 2020
Proposed Budget (2014-2020): € 5.75 billion1. Fostering new skills through excellent initial
training of researchers2. Nurturing excellence through cross-border and
cross-sector mobility3. Stimulating innovation through cross-
fertilisation of knowledge4. Increasing structural impact by co-funding the
activities5. Specific support and policy action
Horizon 2020
COFUND
Innovative networks supporting early-stage training (Including Industrial doctorates & Joint doctorates)
ITNEarly-Stage Researchers
RISEExchange of Staff
IFExperienced Researchers
COFUNDCo-funding
Individual fellowship supporting experienced researchers undertaking mobility
International and inter-sector cooperation through research and innovation staff exchange
Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes funding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers
ITN
IAPP
IRSES
IEF
IOF
IIF
CIG
Horizon 2020
Innovative Training Networks (ITN)
Dedicated to early-stage researchers (no ER recruitment) Involving wide partnership of institutions from academic and
non-academic sectors Based on FP7 ITNs experience + support to joint doctorates
Addressing triple 'i' dimension of mobility
Combining scientific excellence with innovation-oriented approach
Developing entrepreneurship and skills matching research labour market needs
Enhancing employability of researchers
MSCA - main EU programme for structured doctoral training
Individual Fellowships(IF)
Opportunities for international and inter-sector mobility of ER to facilitate career moves
Enhance competences and creative potential of best researchers, European and non-European willing to work in the EU
Encompass intra-European, incoming, outgoing mobility and re-integration
Possibility of inter-sector secondments
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)
New type of exchange of staff action to stimulate transfer of knowledge
Flexible inter-sector (within Europe) and international (with 3rd countries) exchanges of highly skilled research and innovation staff
No recruitment foreseen
Single eligibility rule for partnership consortia
Based on a common research project
COFUND
Stimulating regional, national and international programmes to foster excellence
Spreading best practices of MSCA in terms of international mobility, research training, career development
Extended to doctoral training
Building on experience from FP7 COFUND – evaluation results available:
• COFUND is enhancing the international dimension of a number of national and regionally-based fellowship programmes in ways that are not open to Individual Fellowships
• Modest positive impact on operational and administrative procedures of host institutions (COFUND)
• Contributing to a gradual ‘levelling up’ in employment conditions for researchers
Inter-institutional discussions
Council
Framework Programme Regulation: Partial General Approach (PGA) reached on 31 May 2012
Rules for Participation and Dissemination: PGA reached on 10 October
Specific Programme: PGA reached on 11 December 2012
MSCA: Impact across the programme on the innovativeness of the private sector Importance of industrial doctorates Mobility for European brain gain – importance of (re)integration Extension of co-funding, involve private sector Synergies with Erasmus for All, Structural Funds, KICs
European Parliament
ITRE Committee vote on 28 November 2012Importance of widening participationBuilding synergies between Horizon 2020 and Structural FundsEstablishing bridges with national and regional initiatives20% of budget for SMEsOpen access to publications and scientific data
MSCA: Increase of budget (from 7.2% to 8.3% of H2020) Importance of joint and industrial doctorates Promoting excellence in less innovation performing regions Measures to remove obstacles to the mobility of female researchers Support for outgoing mobility followed by return to Europe "Seal of excellence" on positively evaluated projects (not funded)
Inter-institutional discussions