WP 2010 Gunnar Sandberg. European Research Council │ 2 NCP meeting Brussels, 26/06/2009 WP 2010,...

WP 2010

Gunnar Sandberg

European Research Council

│ 2NCP meetingBrussels, 26/06/2009

WP 2010, structure

a) Stable and complementary grant schemes: StG, AdG.• Investigator driven (“bottom-up”) actions.• Highest quality research at the frontiers of knowledge with particular

encouragement of interdisciplinarity.• Evaluation of proposals on the basis of the sole criterion of excellence.• Targeting investigators at two different career stages.• Multiple, sliding stage opportunities over 7 years of FP7.• Continuously increasing budget.

b) Funding.• Calls’ cumulative budget surpassing for the first time the € 1 bn mark! • Complementing Member States’ activities towards full spectrum

coverage (SP Ideas-consistent).

c) Accompanying measures/actions (CSA) for the timely monitoring/assessment of the ERC activities.



WP 2010, general adjustments

1. Significant budgetary strengthening of StG (StG/AdG ca.1/1).

2. Measure to increase attractiveness of EU and associated countries to researchers from third countries.

3. Further addressing of justified research career gaps and/or unconventional research career paths (especially for women researchers).

4. Slight simplification of proposal structure (no self-evaluation).

5. Clearer indications of expected commitment to the ERC-funded activity by a PI of a StG and AdG project (previously only specified in the Guide for Applicants).



WP 2010, StG specific adjustments

Targeting PI populations:

Extension of “eligibility window” in view of the budgetary strengthening of the action: 2-10 year post PhD.

Increased extension of eligibility window for maternity leave (18 months per child born before or after PhD award).

Recognition of two streams of applicants: “starters” (2 to 6 years post-PhD) and “consolidators” (over 6 and up to 10 years post-PhD) during evaluation.

Indicative budget separation for the two streams on the basis of respective budgetary demand per panel (ensuring comparable success rate).

Introduction of “€0.5M incentive” (within the “up to €2.0M for 5 years”) to increase attractiveness for PIs from third countries.

Minor “fine tuning”:Re-application rule (from ERC-2010-StG call and on!): every other call unless proposal evaluated over quality threshold at step-1. and Step-1 cut-off level (slight increase to “normally 2.5 x” indicative panel budget).



WP 2010, AdG specific adjustments

No change in content (high quality applications by excellent established PIs).

Re-application rule (from ERC-2010-AdG and on): every other call unless proposal evaluated over quality threshold at step-2 but not funded.

Re-application rule that links applicants of either ERC-2008-AdG or ERC-2009-AdG calls with the ERC-2010-AdG still holds.



Timetable 2009-10

Target period for new WP publication (adoption by the Commission):

End of July 2009

Publication of the second StG call, ERC-2010-StG* These dates should be considered provisional and are pending the adoption of the Work Programme by the Commission.

End of July 2009Tentative deadlines*

PE: 28/10/09LS: 18/11/09SH: 09/12/09

Publication of the second AdG call, ERC-2010-AdG* These dates should be considered provisional and are pending the adoption of the Work Programme by the Commission.

End of October 2009Tentative deadlines*

PE: 24/02/10LS: 17/03/10SH: 07/04/10


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Major Changes compared to StG2

• Increase in budget to €528M from €296M (78% increase)

Big increase in number of interviews!

• Division in to two streams (“starters” and “consolidators”)

• More generous time allowance for children:

Maternity leave: Automatic 1.5 years for any children, before for children born before or after Ph.D

Paternity leave: accumulation of time taken (documented), for children born before or after Ph.D.

• Maximum cumulative time: 14.5 years


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Major Changes compared to StG2

• Reduction in maximum amount applicants can apply for to €1.5 M except for:

establishment of a new research activity in the EU or AC


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Starter and Consolidator Stream

• By default:

Starters: 2-6 years past Ph.D

Consolidators: 6-10 years past Ph.D.

Applicants will be asked to elaborate on their stage in a special (short) subsection of part B1

No box on the A1 page to tick.

Up to panels to assess and make final decision


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Some planned changes…

• Plan is not to use A1T Form for this Call• Plan for the possibility to exclude one reviewer• Request possibility to use Title and Abstract

for contacting potential reviewers


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Remember Resubmission rules!

• Spelled out in the Work Programme

• For StG3, applicants need to have reached Step 2 of the StG2 evaluation, and not be funded due to budget limitations (not failed)

• Applicants that are eliminated at StG-2 Step 1 cannot apply.

• The plan is to relax these rules for following Call so that only those who fail (i.e. below threshold) in Step 1 cannot re-apply


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Approximate Calendar/ Deadlines

• PE: 28 October

• LS: 18 November

• SH: 9 December

• Step 1 Panel Meetings: January March 2010

• Interviews: April – May 2010

• Final Panel Chair Meeting: June 2010


Results 2009 Where do we stand?

• All Step 1 and Step 2 (interviews) panel meetings concluded

• Granting has started and results have been sent out for PE2 - PE10 and all SH panels

• Small delay in PE 1 for technical reasons• LS Domain results has started the internal

Interservice Consultation process• Expect to send out results July


Final Panel Chair Meeting

• Had Final Panel Chair meeting June 18 and 19)• Resulted in 16 proposals accepted by Panel

Chairs to funded from ID budget.• Reserve list have been formed by domain by the

panel chairs• Expect to be able to fund 219 main list proposals• Expect o have up to €29€ available in Associated

Country contributions for this Call, which should allow some ~25 addional proposal to be funded


ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Submitted and mainlist proposals by domain

Life Sciences

Physical Sciences & Engineering

Social Sciences & Humanities

927 (37%)

1112 (44.4%)

464 (18.6%)

69 (31.5%)

93 (42.5%)

41 (18.7%)

Submitted proposals Mainlist

∑ = 2503 ∑ = 219

16 (7.3%)Interdisciplinary Domain


• Age: mean: 37.2, min: 30, max: 52

• Gender: 24.2% women

• PhD: 100%

• Years after PhD: mean: 6.7, min: 4, max: 11

• Prof: 22.5% (11.4% for all applicants)

ERC Starting Grant 2009 – MainlistERC Starting Grant 2009 – MainlistProfile of Principal Investigator


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Number of proposals Proposals by domain

37,1% 37,0% 35,3% 32,1%

48,1% 44,4% 46,0%46,7%

14,9% 18,5% 18,6% 21,2%

0%

50%

100%

2007 2009 2008 2009

Starting Grant Advanced Grant



Life Sciences

+ +

+_

__3399

927 766 506

4406

1112997

736

1362

464404

335

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

2007 2009 2008 2009




Life Sciences

9167

25032167

1577

- 72,7 %

- 27 %

Proposals

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


ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Submitted proposals by panel & gender

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

LS

1

LS

2

LS

3

LS

4

LS

5

LS

6

LS

7

LS

8

LS

9

PE

1

PE

2

PE

3

PE

4

PE

5

PE

6

PE

7

PE

8

PE

9

PE

10

SH

1

SH

2

SH

3

SH

4

SH

5

SH

6

% o

f s

ub

mit

ted

Pro

po

sa

ls

Social Sciences &Humanities


Life Sciences

StG 09 2503, 17 Dec. 2008

% Female candidates


ERC Starting Grant 2009ERC Starting Grant 2009Mainlist proposals by panel & gender

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9 PE1 PE2 PE3 PE4 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9 PE10 SH1 SH2 SH3 SH4 SH5 SH6 ID

% o

f p

rop

os

als



Life Sciences

StG-09, J une 2009

Inter-disciplinary


Source: StG-09: 2503, 17.12.2008

StG 2009Submitted proposals

by country of host institution

(2503)

29

227

42434

9043

80

7

2626

95

134

3049

34

42

2

284

1

6195261

47

9

86

256

228

1

347


Armenia

2

Argentinia

2

Australia

7

Bangladesh

1

Canada

3

Cuba

1

Chile

1

Brasil

7

Algeria

1

Belarus 1

Egypt

1 India

14

Japan 6Lebano 1

Korea

3

Sri Lanka

2

Mexico

2

Malaysia

2

New Zealand

2

Peru

1

Russia

30

Singapore

1

Taiwan 2Iran 1

USA

31

Ukraine 8

Uruguay 1

Viet Nam

1

South Africa

2

ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009 Submissions from nationals of third countries

China

14

Source: StG-09: 2503 submitted proposals

Moldova2Kazakhistan 1


ERA

4

56

1

5

ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009Submissions from researchers with a residence outside of ERA

31

1

1

1

1

1


ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009 Submitted proposals by country of host institution & gender

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

IT UK DE FR ES NL BE EL SE IL CH AT FI DK TR PT PL NO IE CZ HU RO SI CY BG HR LT SK EE LV MT RS

% o

f su

bm

itte

d P

rop

osa

ls

Male

Female

StG 09, 2503 17 Dec. 2008


ERC Starting Grant ERC Starting Grant 20092009Submitted proposals by country of host institution & domain

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

IT UK DE FR ES NL BE EL SE IL CH AT FI DK TR P T P L NO IE CZ HU RO SI CY BG HR LT SK EE LV MT RS

% o

f sub

mitt

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ropo

sals



Life Sciences

StG 09, 250317 Dec. 2008

European Research Council ERC Starting Grants 2007 & 2009ERC Starting Grants 2007 & 2009

Call comparison: Submissions by country of host institution

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

IT UK DE FR ES NL SE EL BE FI P L CH IL HU P T TR DK AT IE RO NO CZ BG SI SK CY RS HR LT EE LU IS LV MT

% o

f sub

mitt

ed P

ropo

sals

Starting Grant 2007

Starting Grant 2009

StG 07: 9167; StG 09, 2503; 17 Dec. 2008


Bosnia

2

Congo

1

Belarus 8

Colombia

2

Ethiopia 1

Hong Kong

1

Kenya 1

Morocco

2

Mauritius

1

Malawi

1

Nigeria

1Philippines

1

Pakistan

2

Togo

1

Thailand

1

Cisjordanie 1

Tanzania 1

Viet Nam

2

South Africa

2

Zimbabwe 1

ERC Starting grant calls 2007 & 2009ERC Starting grant calls 2007 & 2009Submissions from citizens of third countries

Iran 1

Kazakhstan

1USA

116

Russia

139

India

53

Ukraine 40

Canada

36

Australia

35

Japan

24

Brasilia

21

Mexico

12

Korea

10

Malaysia

5

Taiwan 5Cuba

5

Bangladesh

5

Singapore

8

New Zealand

8

Tunisia

8Algeria

7

China

61Egypt

4

Armenia

4

Peru

4

Venezuela

4 Sri Lanka

3

Uruguay

3

Chile

3

Uzbekistan

3Lebanon

3

Argentina

18


ERC CommunicationERC CommunicationUnit ERCEA.A.2 (11+1 people)

• Acting Head of Unit A2: Pablo AMOR (since March 2009)

• Promoting ERC funding opportunities: Samantha CHRISTEY (since 1/5/2009)• Communicating ERC-funded research: Catherine AUDOUZE (since 1/6/2009)• Media Relations: Madeleine DRIELSMA (since July 2007)• Organisation of events, NCPs: Béatrice THIRY (since May 2008)• ERC image, benefits and publicity: Hilde BAESKENS (as of 16/8/2009)• Production (print, audiovisual): Carla PALMIERI (since Mai 2006)• Internal Communications, corporate identity: Elina DESYLLA (since Oct 2005)• Web and Database Manager Paolo BORGHESI (since 16/6/2009)• Graphics Designer to be recruited• Support and assistance: Sylvie ORIOT (since 1/12/2008)

Danielle EVRARD (since 1/3/2009)

• Deputy Head of Unit S1 in charge ofERC communications , DG-RTD: Gianpietro VAN DE GOOR (since 2004/05)


ERC CommunicationsERC CommunicationsCurrent/ongoing challenges

Consolidation of communication capacities, especially to support growth of the Agency and its transition to autonomy (internal communication)

Promoting ERC-funding opportunities, especially outside of Europe: events, grantees as ambassadors (alumni culture), promote career and funding

opportunities for young researchers in Europe Communicating ERC-funded Frontier Research, including case studies,

success stories, portrays of grantees, achievements of ERC-funded research

Communicating ERC achievements, including the wider benefits and impact (supported by CSAs)

Monitoring the impact of communication activities


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Up-to-date InformationUp-to-date InformationERC website at http://erc.europa.eu ERC website at http://erc.europa.eu

NEW SECTION

Funded Projects


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ERC-funded Research & PIsERC-funded Research & PIsCase studies

• ERC website ‘Funded projects’ section: List with names of StG PIs and host institutions, grant size, duration,

project abstracts of 299 funded projects (1st call 2007) List with names of AdG PIs and host institutions of 282 retained

proposals ERC Starting Grant brochure with Case Studies

• Various brochures on Starting Grant case studiesproduced by national actors (e.g. in DE, AT, BE, FR)

• ERC StG event, 7 October 2008, ParisVideo of presentations & 2 discussion roundtables with 10 Starting Grantees http://www.canalc2.tv/video.asp?idEvenement=423

• ERC AdG event, 13 March 2009, IstanbulVideo of presentations, incl. several Advanced Grantees: www.fp7.org.tr/erc2009

• FP7 project database (FP IDEAS projects)http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html


PublicationsPublicationsCommunicating Frontier Research

ERC-dedicated Supplement Edition of “research*eu” available in EN, FR, ES, DE, CZ

Guide for Applicants, revision July 2009

Leaflet on ERC grant schemes (pocket size), pdf: July 2009; print: fall 2009

ERC Annual Report 2008, July/August 2009 ERC fact sheets, being updated and re-printed (fall 2009)

ERC Scientific Council Brochure fall 2009

Brochure on ERC Starting Grant with Case Studies reprint all 2009

Promotional video on ERC Starting Grantees, fall 2009


Events in 2009 & 2010 Events in 2009 & 2010 with active role of the ERC

• The Nobel Laureate meetings, Lindau, 28 June-3 July

• The Source event, London, 25 Sept, Berlin 4 Dec

• European Career Fair, Boston, Jan/Feb

• AAAS Annual Meeting 2010, San Diego, February

• International Career Fair, San Francisco, Feb/March

• ESOF2010, Torino, 2-7 July

• NCP National Information days, if staff available


För mer Information • www.vr.se• www.vinnova.se

NCPs

Ana Beramendi [email protected]

Gunnar Sandberg [email protected]



ERC emblematic postersERC emblematic posters


• Proposals checks Performed

• Eligibility• Re-application rule

Information sent to PE and SH applicants On-going for LS applicants Requests for redress received from PE applicants

• On re-application rule

• Step 1 evaluation Completed for PE and SH panels On-going for LS panels (panel meetings until mid-July) Results will be communicated to all applicants (July-August)

• Step 2 evaluation September-October

Advanced Grant 2009State of Play


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

Number of proposals Proposals by domain

37,1% 37,0% 35,3% 32,1%

48,1% 44,4% 46,0%46,7%

14,9% 18,5% 18,6% 21,2%

0%

50%

100%

2007 2009 2008 2009




Life Sciences

+ +

+_

__3399

927 766 506

4406

1112997

736

1362

464404

335

0

2000

4000

6000

8000

10000

2007 2009 2008 2009




Life Sciences

9167

25032167

1577

- 72,7 %

- 27 %

Proposals


Advanced Grant 2009Advanced Grant 2009Number of submitted proposals

Life Sciences


513

736

335

?

?

?

Submitted proposals Selected proposals

?Interdisciplinary

research


∑ = 1584


ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009Overview

Status June 2009 LS PE SH Grand TotalIneligible 19 28 8 55Passed to Step 2 247 247Satisfactory, beyond budget Step 1 367 367Unsatisfactory Step 1 93 93Withdrawn 1 1 2(blank) 494 326 820Grand Total 513 736 335 1584


Source: AdG 2009: 1584, 27.05.2009

AdG 2009 Submitted proposals

by country of host institution

(1584)

16

9610

221

3117

79

7

2118

3680

1822

14

1

3

11

1

3837102

31

64

146

161

307 GE: 1

RU: 1

CN: 1

1

4

1

2

3

1

European Research Council ERC Advanced Grant ERC Advanced Grant 20092009

Submissions from nationals of third countries

Argentinia

2

Australia

6

Canada

8

India

2

Japan 4Lebanon

1

New Zealand

4

Russia

13

USA

39

Ukraine

1

South Africa

2

Morroco

1

Georgia

1


• Age: mean: 52.7, min: 30, max: 81

• Gender: 14% women

• PhD: 99.4%

• Years after PhD: mean: 23.5, min: 1, max: 56

• Prof: 79.2%

Advanced Grant 2009Advanced Grant 2009Profile of Principal Investigator


Advanced Grant 2009Advanced Grant 2009Submitted proposals by panel and gender (%)

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9 PE1 PE2 PE3 PE4 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9 PE10 SH1 SH2 SH3 SH4 SH5 SH6

% o

f p

rop

os

als



Life Sciences

AdG-09, May 2009

% Female candidates


ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals by host country & domain

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

200

220

240

260

280

300

320

UK IT FR DE CH ES NL IL SE AT BE DK EL PL FI RO HU NO TR IE CZ PT SI BG SK EE HR IS CY CN GE LT LV ME MK RU

No

. of

pro

po

sals



Life Sciences

AdG-09, 27 May 2009


ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals by host country & gender

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350


No

. of

Pro

po

sals

Male

Female

AdG-09, June 2009


ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals by nationality & gender

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

UK IT DE FR ES IL NL SE BE CH EL US AT DK P L FI RO TR HU CZ IE RU NO BG CA P T SI AU HR EE IS J P NZ SK CY AR HK IN LU ZA GE LB LT MA ME MK UA

No

. of

Pro

po

sals

Male

Female

AdG-09, June 2009


ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Submitted proposals – mobility

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350


Country of Host Institution

No

. of

pro

po

sals

Staying

Moving

AdG-09, June 2009

6% intended mobility – moving from one country to another host country


AdG 2008/2009Submitted proposals

by country of host organisation

AdG-08

AdG-09

206

159

135

95

301

220

179

145

65

64

70

22

71

23

43

17

92

31

299

306

42

37

96

102

22

7

7

2141

79

29

18

32

21

16

162

1

2

0

2

1

4

3

28

18

33

30

17

10

63

36

107

80

29

11

158

44

4

3

1

0

5

3

2

1

1

0

0

1

ME AL


ERC Advanced Grant 2009ERC Advanced Grant 2009 Eligibility check for Principal Investigators

Status1) PE SH LS Total

Withdrawn 1 1 0 2

Test proposals 2 2 4 8

Ineligible 3 3 52) 11

Not in compliance with resubmission rules

23 4 13 40

Total 29 10 22 61

1) Status as of 2 June 2009

2) Whereof 4 still in Committee

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