ERC Executive Agency Head of Unit Advanced...

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Thierry Prost ERC Executive Agency

Head of Unit "Advanced Grants"

Grant Management, Key ERC Statistics & Horizon 2020

ERCEA Grant Management HI Workshop Lyon, 7 May 2014

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Presentation Overview

Agenda Background/Objectives of Today's Event ERCEA Organigramme/Grant Management

Department ERC Achievements/Funding Key French Statistics ERC in Horizon 2020

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Agenda

09:30 Welcome / Presentation - Thierry Prost 10:00 Host Institutions presentations:

- Magali Bayssiere – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 – Lyon Ingénierie Projets - Nicolas Stefanni – MSH Ange Guépin Nantes

10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Grant Preparation + Q&A - Pierre Dubosc 11:45 Financial Reports/Payments + Q&A – Gabriel Karajian 12:30 Lunch (with fixed "Help Desks") 13:30 Amendments + Q&A – Veronica Williams 14:15 Audit + Q&A – Toni Amanda Skeen 15:00 Coffee Break 15:15 Scientific Reporting/Open Access – Pascal Dissard 16:00 Sharing of Beneficiary experiences/open question session 16:30 Wrap-up

BACKGROUND Since 2010: 21 Grant Management HI events

Two types: Standard event e.g. today (4 planned in 2014) Case-study/hands-on approach events piloted in January in Brussels and another one planned end of year

OBJECTIVE Provide grant management & scientific reporting information/guidance Point out some FP7 problematic areas Provide best practice examples Highlight H2020 novelties

ULTIMATE GOAL: Help you improve efficiency and help you avoid errors

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Background/Objectives of Today's event

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ERCEA Organigramme

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C Grant Management Department

C1

Starting Grants

C2

Consolidator Grants (+ PoC and SyG)

C4

Audit and ex-post controls

Each Unit deals with the full project life-cycle : •Granting •Payments •Amendments Management of audits on-the-spot remains with Unit C.4 + Communication activities, information Campaigns [Trainings and outreach events (for HI and PIs)]

C3

Advanced Grants

C0

Management of operational budget, financial reporting and

analysis

Grant Management Department

"" -Based on a funding decision taken by the President of the ERC, after peer review evaluation of a call, Department C takes charge of the financial and contractual requirements, for the research to happen.

-The Department is a service provider making sure that the PIs have the legal security and financial means to carry out their research in optimal conditions, keeping the administrative burden as low as possible.

Grant Management Department Our mission

ERC achievements Time line

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

Appointment of 22 Scientific

Council Members

Adoption of FP7 and IDEAS Programme

Launch of ERC & 1st StG call

1st AdG call

2nd StG and AdG calls

3rd StG and AdG calls

4th StG, AdG calls & 1st PoC call

2012 5th StG, AdG calls 2nd PoC call & 1st SyG call

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6th StG, AdG calls 3nd PoC call 2st SyG call & 1st CoG call

2013

H2020

Established by the European Commission

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Highly recognised by the research community 4 300 top researchers funded (65% are at an early-career stage); 64

nationalities represented Highly competitive (average success rate 12%) Working in almost 600 different institutions in 29 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

ERC achievements After 7 years of existence…


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By the end of the programme

more than 4.500 Grants

will have been funded for a

total of 7,7bn€

ERC achievements Portfolio


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About half of the budget committed for grants

remains to be paid under IDEAS until

2021

*) L1 commitments signed

ERC funding funds committed / funds paid


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Peak of Payments expected in 2015

ERC funding FP7 legacy


Success rates by country of Host Institution

based on: ERC Starting and Consolidator grant calls 2007-2013 ERC Advanced grant calls 2008-2013


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ERC grant distribution to countries of HI



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Nationals at home and abroad



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Mobility of researchers

Current host institutions: data as of 11/02/2014

153

417

80

Foreign PIs in FR

French PIs abroad

5 7 8 8 4 1 2 2 2 27

2617

5 56

6 4 3 2 3 3 1

24

0

10

20

30

40

IT DE UK US BE ES PT NL RU RO EL CA Other

StG/CoGAdG

136

1 2 2 4

14

18

8 51

6

0

10

20

30

CH UK NL DE SE Other

StG/CoGAdG


Top European

Institutions hosting

at least 30 ERC

Grantees by funding

Schemes

StG/CoG 2007-2013 AdG 2008-2013

First legal

signatories of the grant agreement

Data as of 11/02/2014

Country Higher-Education Institution No StG/CoG AdG Total LS PE SH

UK University of Oxford 1 63 58 121 37 51 33

UK University of Cambridge 2 69 49 118 40 57 21

UK University College London 3 55 30 85 34 18 33

CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) 4 35 46 81 25 53 3

CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) 5 44 36 80 23 55 2

IL Weizmann Institute 6 51 28 79 45 33 1

IL Hebrew University of Jerusalem 7 43 30 73 33 26 14

UK Imperial College 8 34 27 61 23 38

UK University of Edinburgh 9 24 21 45 10 21 14

BE University of Leuven 9 30 15 45 12 23 10

UK University of Bristol 10 18 21 39 8 25 6

DE University of Munich (LMU) 11 14 24 38 16 16 6

NL University of Amsterdam 11 21 17 38 3 11 24

NL Radboud University Nijmegen 12 25 12 37 14 11 12

NL Leiden University 13 21 15 36 1 17 18

NL Utrecht University 14 20 13 33 8 17 8

IL Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 14 25 8 33 9 23 1

CH University of Zurich 14 18 15 33 21 5 7

UK King's College London 15 22 9 31 12 5 14

IL Tel Aviv University 15 17 14 31 11 17 3

CH University of Geneva 15 14 17 31 19 9 3

FI University of Helsinki 16 16 14 30 21 7 2

SE Karolinska Institute 16 18 12 30 28 2

Country Research Organisation No StG AdG Total LS PE SH

FR National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) 1 143 66 209 59 119 31

DE Max Planck Society 2 65 45 110 58 45 7

FR National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) 3 39 18 57 54 1 2

FR French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission 4 34 9 43 7 35 1

ES Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 5 25 15 40 15 20 5

FR National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA) 6 19 12 31 31


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Top host institutions in France

• CNRS - 216 ERC grants: 66 AdG, 144 StG/CoG, and 6 PoC

Current host institutions; data as of 11/02/2014

based on: ERC Starting and Consolidator grant calls 2007-2013 ERC Advanced grant calls 2008-2013 ERC Proof of Concept 2011-2013


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Proof-of-Concept grants by country of Host Institution

The ERC under H2020 and the

novelties in grant management

HORIZON 2020


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 Future and Emerging Technologies Marie Sklodoswka Curie Actions Research Infrastructures

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Co-operation (65 %)

Ideas (15 %)

People (9 %)

Capacities (8 %) JRC non-

nuclear (3 %)

FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion

H2020 budget € 77 billion ERC budget € 13.1 billion

ERC budget almost doubled


ERC yearly budget


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Important active Grant

portfolio, which will double

from 2013 till 2021

Phasing out of FP7 and phasing in of H2020


Strengthening the Scientific Governance of the European Research Council: Strengthening the links between the Scientific Council and the Executive Agency Merging positions of President of ERC and Secretary General Full-time President based in Brussels 3 Vice-Chairs elected from amongst the Scientific Council members

Essential features maintained: Same schemes, same principles, same selection procedures/criteria Independent Scientific Council with full authority over funding strategy Executive Agency with autonomous operation

Increased budget (13 Bio € in current prices for 2014-2020): More opportunities than ever for top research talents

ERC in H2020 : Changes and continuity


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Novelties in Grant management Paperless exchanges …at last!

Electronic signature Of the Grant Agreement

Of the Amendments

Financial Statements and reports

Communication between the EC and the beneficiaries Through the Participant Portal

Electronic-only submission of reports as a general rule


Core text General conditions

Specific provisions

Annexes III

FP7

A single document with all provisions:

Novelties in Grant management The new Model Grant Agreement


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Novelties in Grant management Key simplifications planned

-Successful PIs to get working more quickly: reduced time to grant -Less requirements for time records

-Less audits and audit Certificates

-Wider use of IT tools


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Publication date of first calls : December 11, 2013

Three ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2014: Starting; Consolidator; and Advanced Grants

The Scientific Council will analyse the pilot phase of the ERC Synergy Grant (calls were made under Work Programmes 2012 and 2013) before deciding on the scope and timing of future calls. No SyG call under Work Programme 2014

Extension of restrictions on applications will apply to the 2015 calls based on the outcome of the evaluation of the 2014 calls

ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant, first introduced in 2011

Overhead: 25% Indicative budget for 2015 to help the research community to plan

applications

ERC in H2020 Work program 2014, summary of main features


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