The European Research Council

European Research Council

The European Research Council

Dr Pascal Dissard European Research Council Executive Agency

Research Programme Officer - Unit B3 – Advanced Grant Unit

ERC visit to Brazil11-18 May, 2010

European Research Council FP7 IDEAS ProgrammeThe ERC Calls 2007 – 2009: an overview


Jack Metthey

ERC Executive Agency

Director ad interim

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Prof. Helga Nowotny ERC President

The ERC BoardLinking strategy and operations

Prof. Fotis KafatosERC Honorary President

Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell

ERC Secretary-General

Dr. Daniel EsteveERC Vice-President


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ERC Executive AgencyERC Executive AgencyOrganisation chart per 1/12/2009

DIRDirector’s

Office

J. METTHEY(Director Ad

Interim)

Scientific Management Department

G. NAGY (Acting HoD)

Grant Management Department

P. AMOR

Support Services Department

Y. PATERNOSTER

B1Process

Management and Review

B.TUBBING

B2Starting Grant

A. MARTIN-HOBDEY

C1Grant Preparation

T. PROST

C2Payment and

Controls

M. MAY

D1IT Tools

Development and Management

M. VANBIERVLIET

D2Human

Resources, Budget and

Infrastructure

C. LENARDUZZI

B3Advanced Grant

G. NAGY

C3Grant Closure &

Termination

J. BRODERSEN

CAOChief Accountant

S. WALA

IAOInternal Audit

Capability

M. HENNESSY

D3Programming,

Monitoring, Legal matters and Risk

Management

M. Olivan -Aviles

A2Communications

M. Gaudina

A1Support to the

Scientific Council

P. AMOR(acting)


A radical shift in policy: pan-European competition to advance excellent ideas of individuals

Support for excellent individual researchers to push the frontiers of science

Support for the early independence of young researchers Industry participation is welcome

The ERC paradigm


Budget (2007-2013): 7.51 billion Euro (~ 15% of FP7 Budget) ~1 billion Euro/year


│ 7

Received proposals

of which

evaluated Selected*

Starting Grant 2007 9,167 8,794 299

Starting Grant 2009 2,503 2,392 242

Total Starting Grant 11,670 11,186 541

Advanced Grant 2008 2,167 2,034 282

Advanced Grant 2009 1,583 1,526 236

Total Advanced Grant 3,750 3560 518

Grand Total 15,420 14,746 1,059

• ~ 800 panel members • ~ 2000 reviewers

• 1059 selected PI´s• ~ 1000 signed projects

ERC – factsERC – factsStG 2007 – AdG 2009 StG 2007 – AdG 2009


The evaluation process

• 2 Steps

•Step 1: synopsis•Step 2: full proposal (+ interview for Starting Grants)

•Panels

•~ 12 panel members (inc. 1 Chair)•1 coordinator (ERC scientific officer)•~ 4 panel members / proposal (+ experts from other panels for cross-panels or cross-domains proposals)•+ remote referees in step 2


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ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007, 2008 & 2009Submitted proposals by domain

Number of proposals

3399

9271030

766

513

4406

1112 1205997

736

1362

464638

404 3350

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

Starting 2007

Starting 2009

Starting 2010

Advanced 2008

Advanced 2009

Nu

mb

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of

su

bm

itte

d p

rop

os

als

Life Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Social Sciences & Humanities

ERC 2010

9167

216725032873

1584

- 73 %

+ 15 %

- 27 % ?


Success rates in ERC callsSuccess rates in ERC calls


Submitted Selected Submitted Selected Submitted Selected Submitted Selected

Total 9167 299 2503 219* 2167 275 1584 236

success 3.3% 8.8% 12.7% 15%

LS 3399 105 927 69 766 84 513 89

success 3.1% 7.5% 11.0% 17%?

PE 4406 137 1112 93 997 114 736 105

success 3.1% 8.4% 11.4% 14%

SH 1362 57 464 41 404 48 335 42

success 4.2% 8.9% 11.9% 13%

StG 2007 StG 2009 AdG 2008 AdG 2009


│ 11

USRU

CNAU

INCA

JPUA

BRRS

KRMX

NZAR

CLIR

LKMY

AMCU

TWVN

BYMD

UYZA

BDBO

DZEG

GHGM

KGKZ

LBMA

MNMU

NPPE

PHPK

SGVE

YE

0.0%

0.2%

0.4%

0.6%

0.8%

1.0%

1.2%

1.4%

1.6%

1.8%StG2009 StG2010

ERC Starting Grant 2009, 2010 callsSubmission : Applicants from Third countriesOverall number StG2009 = 154 (6%) / StG2010 = 235 (8%)

Brazil

By nationality at the time of application


│ 12

Life Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Social Sciences & Humanities

1029 (36%)

1205 (42%)

639 (22%)

267 (34%)

358 (46%)

154 (20%)

Submitted proposals

Proposals retained to step2

Total = 2873 Total = 779

StG 2010: Outcome Step1 evaluation

Success Rate 27%


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Submissions in AdG 2008, 2009 and 2010

0

500

1000

1500

2000

PE LS SH Total

AdG2008

AdG2009

AdG2010

2167

1584

2009


0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

PE1 PE2 PE3 PE4 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9 PE10

│ 14

Submissions in AdG 2008, 2009 and 2010 - PE

2167AdG2008

AdG2009

AdG2010


0

20

40

60

80

100

120

LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9

│ 15

Submissions in AdG 2008, 2009 and 2010 - LS

21672009

AdG2008

AdG2009

AdG2010


0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

SH1 SH2 SH3 SH4 SH5 SH6

│ 16

Submissions in AdG 2008, 2009 and 2010 - SH

21672009

AdG2008

AdG2009

AdG2010


0

500

1000

1500

2000

AdG2008 AdG2009 AdG2010

│ 17

2009

Domain distributions of submissions in AdG 2008, 2009 and 2010

PE

LS

SH

46%

35%

19%

47%

32%

21%

45%

31%

24%


│ 18

2009

Other nationalities (< 5 submissions): CN, CY, IN, IS, LT, NZ, AL, EG, LV, AR, BR, BY, GD, GT, IR, JP, LU, MK, MT, PE, PK, TN, UA, ZA

AdG 2010 submissions: domain distribution versus PI nationalities

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350U

K IT DE

FR

ES IL NL

SE

BE

US FI

EL

CH PL

DK

NO AT

HU IE SI

RO

TR PT

CA

BG CZ

RU

AU

HR

EE

RS

SK

PE

LS

SH


0

500

1000

1500

2000

PE LS SH Total │ 19

AdG 2010 submissions: gender balance

2009M

F

7%

13%

25%

13%


0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

UK IT DE

FR

ES IL NL

SE

BE

US FI

EL

CH

PL

DK

NO AT

HU IE SI

RO TR

PT

CA

BG

CZ

RU

AU

HR

EE

RS

SK

│ 20

AdG 2010 submissions: gender balance versus PI nationality

2009M

F


0

500

1000

1500

2000

PE LS SH Total

│ 21

AdG 2010 submissions: proposals with Co-PI

2009without Co-PIwith Co-PI

92%

8%

89%

11%

92%

8%

91%

9%


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AdG 2010 submissions: applicant age distribution

PE

LS

SH

Ref year: call publication

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85

Applicant age

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 78 81 83 85

Applicant age

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85

Applicant age

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61 63 65 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85

Applicant age


ERC StG 2007 + 2009 AdG 2008 + 2009Grants by host

country

Advanced grant call 2008

Starting grant 2009

Starting grant call 2007

Advanced grant call 2009

≤5 ≤201 ≤10 ≤30 ≤40 ≤50 >50

European Research Council ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2010

Comparison of the TOP European institutions

no. grants ERC StG 200717 CNRS9 Max-Planck-Society8 University of Cambridge7 Technion Israel Institute of Technology6 Imperial College London6 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem6 Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche5 Weizmann Institute of Science5 Univ Oxford5 University College London5 Free Univ Amsterdam4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas4 Univ Leuven4 Univ Heidelberg4 IN National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale3 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences3 Univ Tel Aviv 3 Univ Stockholm3 Univ Amsterdam3 Univ Aarhus3 Univ Leiden3 Medical Research Council3 Fundació Privada Centre de Regulació Genòmica3 Spanish National Cancer Centre

no. grants ERC AdG 200811 EPF Lausanne10 Centre National de Recherche Scientifique8 Weizmann Institute of Science7 Univ of Oxford7 Imperial College London6 ETH Zürich5 Univ of Edinburgh5 Univ of Cambridge5 Univ Helsinki4 Univ Genève4 University College London3 Helsinki Univ of Technology3 Univ of Tel Aviv3 Univ of Nijmwegen3 Max-Planck-Society3 IN de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique3 Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales3 Commissariat à l´énergie atomique3 Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem3 Univ of Utrecht3 Politecnico di Milano3 Univ of Lund 3 Karolinska Institutet

no. grants ERC StG 20097 CNRS7 EPF Lausanne7 Max-Planck-Society6 Univ Leuven6 Univ of Oxford5 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem5 Uni Gent4 Univ of Cambridge4 University College London4 Uni Bristol3 Commissariat à l´énergie atomique3 ETH Zürich3 Imperial College London3 IN National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale3 Uni Munich3 Helsinki Univ of Technology3 Univ of Utrecht3 Weizmann Institute of Science

no. grants ERC AdG 20099 Centre National de Recherche Scientifique9 ETH Zürich9 Univ of Cambridge7 University College London7 Max-Planck-Society6 University of Zürich5 Univ of Oxford5 Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem5 Uni Bristol4 EPF Lausanne4 Weizmann Institute of Science4 Imperial College London4 IN National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale4 Uni Munich3 Univ of Edinburgh3 Univ Genève3 Univ Amsterdam3 Univ Bergen3 Univ Uppsala3 Cancer Research UK

European Research Council ERC Starting & Advanced grant calls 2007 - 2010

Submitted proposals from researchers with nationality from a Third country

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

US RU CN CA AU UA JP AR MX KR SG Others

Nationality

Nu

mb

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f g

ran

tees

Starting 2007 Starting 2009 Starting 2010

Advanced 2008 Advanced 2009

5,4%

7,9%

6,1%

5,3%

5,9%

4%

5%

6%

7%

8%

StG 2007 AdG 2008 StG 2009 AdG 2009 StG 2010

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ArgentinaAustraliaCanadaChina Japan Korea Mexico Morocco RussiaSingaporeSouth AfricaUkraineUSA

ERC calls 2007 - 2009 Grantees with a

nationality of a Third country


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