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FP7 ERC UPDATE: WP2008 characteristics, priorities, specific elements (AdG)

FP7 ERC UPDATE: WP2008 characteristics, priorities, specific elements (AdG). Theodore Papazoglou, PhD ERC/European Commission RTD, Directorate S. Basic / Frontier research in Europe. National activities : Research councils (DFG-1920, CNR-1923, CNRS-1939, SNF-1952), academies, etc.

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FP7 ERC UPDATE: WP2008 characteristics, priorities, specific elements (AdG)

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  1. FP7 ERC UPDATE: WP2008 characteristics, priorities, specific elements (AdG) Theodore Papazoglou, PhDERC/European CommissionRTD, Directorate S

  2. Basic / Frontier researchin Europe • National activities: • Research councils (DFG-1920, CNR-1923, CNRS-1939, SNF-1952), academies, etc. • Intergovernmental activities: • CERN (1953), ESO (1962), ESA (1962/1975), EMBO (1963), ILL (1967), COST (1971), ESF (1974), EMBL (1978), Eureka (1985), ITER (1988), ESRF (1988), INTAS (1993) • EU activities (“supranational”): • ECSC – Euratom – EC (1957), JRC (1959), JET (1973),FP1 (1984) … FP7 (2006-2013) • European Research Area – ERA (2000) • FP7 (2006-2013): Ideas/ERC, Marie Curie fellowships, research infrastructures, thematic priority areas Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  3. ERC, “Ideas” and FP7 • A new “institution” • Which is also part of the “family” of FP7: • Co-operation • Ideas • People • Capacities • Complementary to other FP7 support to targeted research (bottom-up vs. targeted research) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  4. FP7 Ideas Programme • Creates ERC • Provides funding • Budget (2007-2013) : € 7.51 bn (around 15% of FP7 budget) • Average budget: € ~1 bn per year • Sets overall objectives for researchand operating principles Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  5. Strategy & ActivitiesERC Scientific Council • Retain – Repatriate – Recruit • Favour “brain gain” and “reverse brain drain” • increase competition, recognition and international visibility for excellent individual scientists and scholars in Europe • ERC Advanced Grant: attract & reward established independent research leaders • Keep (young) researchers in Europe • improve career opportunities and independence - especiallyfor young researchers • ERC Starting Grant: attract & retain the next generation of independent research leaders Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  6. The Scientific CouncilOrganisation • 22 Members of the Scientific Council elected the Chair and Vice-Chairs • One Chair: Prof. Fotis Kafatos • Two Vice-Chairs: Prof. Helga Nowotnyand Dr Daniel Estève • Regular Plenary Meetings (every 1-2 months) • Secretariat of the ScC(Directorate S) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  7. The Agency • Executes annual work programmeas established by the Scientific Council • Implements calls for proposalsand provides information and support to applicants • Organises peer review evaluation • Establishes and manages grant agreements • Administers scientific and financial aspectsand follow-up of grant agreements Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  8. The European Union(represented by the European Commission) • Provides financingthrough the EU framework programmes • Guarantees autonomyof the ERC • Assures the integrity and accountabilityof the ERC • Adopts annual work programmesas established by the Scientific Council Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  9. Prof. Fotis Kafatos President of the ERC Prof. Helga Nowotny Dr Daniel Esteve Vice-Presidents of the ERC Prof. Ernst-Ludwig WinnackerERC Secretary-General Jack Metthey Director of ERC DIS (EC RTD Directorate S) The ERC Board Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  10. The first homefor the ERC • Madou Plaza – Tour Madou • Brussels • 2 dedicated floors (5th/6th) • 140 work places • 5 meeting rooms • 1 auditorium (192 seats) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  11. ERC Advanced Grant(ERC Advanced Investigator Researcher Grant) • Flexible grants for ground-breaking, high-risk/high-gain research that opens new opportunities and directions including those of a multi- and inter-disciplinary nature • Complement to the ERC Starting Grants, targeting researchers who are already established independent research leaders • for up to 5 years, i.e. normally up to ~2,500,000 Euro per grant (may go up to ~3.5 MEuro in specific cases) • ~ ⅔ of ERC annual budget, annual calls (= ~ 300 Advanced Grants per year) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  12. ERC GrantsWho can apply ? • Individual Research Teams: • headed by a single “Principal Investigator” (team leader) • of any nationality • if necessary, including additional team members. • The PI has the freedom to choose the research topic and the power to assemble his/her research team (including “co-Investigators”) meeting the needs of the project. • Teams can be of national or trans-national character • Hosting institution located in an EU member state or associated country Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  13. ERC Advanced Grant Lessons learned from StG 1 • Managing demand for grants • Maximise call budget • By combining budgets over 2 successive years (only one application per researcher in either 2008 or 2009) • Encourage the best to apply • Excellent track record (in recent years) • Strong leadership profile • Discourage trivial or low-quality applications • Applications should be substantive (one-stage submission with two stage evaluation) • Disincentives to submission of applications which are not of the highest quality Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  14. Benchmarks of 10 year “track record” • Senior author publications in major peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary scientific journals and/or in the leading peer-reviewed journals of their respective research fields • Monographs and any translations of monographs (if applicable). • Granted patents (if applicable) • Invited presentations intopeer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools (if applicable) • Expeditions that the applicant has led (if applicable) • International conferences in the field of the applicant that have been organised (member of the steering and/or organising committee) by him/her (if applicable) • InternationalPrizes/Awards/Academy memberships (if applicable) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  15. Indicators of “leadership profile” • Content and impactof the major scientific or scholarly contributions of the applicant to his or her own research field and/or neighbouring research fields and, if applicable, their wider societal impact; • The international recognition and diffusion that these major contributions have received from others (publications or appropriate equivalents/additional funding/ students/international prizes and awards/ institution-building/other); • Ability to productively change research fields and/or to establish new interdisciplinary approaches Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  16. ERC Advanced GrantRe-application restrictions • Only one ERC Grant per investigator may be active at any time • One submission may be made to ERC-2008-AdG or ERC-2009-AdG • PIs submitting to ERC-2008-AdG or ERC-2009-AdG and failing quality threshold(s) will not be permitted to apply to ERC-2010-AdG • Additional restrictions on multiple submissions Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  17. Re-application AdG AdG1 (2008) AdG2 (2009) Step 1+ Step 2+ Step 1+ Step 2+ AdG3 (2010) AdG3 (2010) Step 1- Step 1- AdG 4 (2011) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  18. ERC Calls Indicative Schedule (2007-2010) ERC Starting Grant Calls Indicative Schedule 2007 - 2010 ERC Advanced Grant Calls Indicative Schedule 2007 - 2010 Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  19. ERC Advanced Grant Lessons learned from StG 1 • Evaluation • Methodology • Single stage application with 2-step peer review evaluation • Separate indicative budget for interdisciplinary and high risk proposals • Panel structure • 25 panels across the 3 domains • Additional panels to take account of uneven demand and improve the boundaries between research areas Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  20. ERC Advanced Grant1-stage submission / 2-step evaluation Proposals must contain: • CV + 10 year track record + scientific leadership profile + extended synopsis (and “co-investigator(s), if necessary) • Research proposal • Research Environment description Special role (and assessment of co-investigators) in proposals that are anticipated for interdisciplinary research Evaluation: • 1st step: Evaluation of P.I. (with special emphasis on track record/leadership profile/CV) & “Extended Synopsis” • 2nd step: Evaluation of Full Proposal (with referees, no interview) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  21. ERC Advanced grantIndicative budgets • 3 main research domains + interdisciplinary research, with separate indicative budgets: • Physical Sciences & Engineering (39%) • Life Sciences (incl. medical) (34%) • Humanities & Social Sciences (14%) • Interdisciplinary (13%) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  22. ERC Advanced GrantPanel structure • Increase panels to 25 • Provisionally, each panel consists of the panel chair and ca. 10 panel members • Panel Chair oversees evaluation process for the proposals assigned to his/her panel in collaboration with the ERC staff • The Panel Chair gives high level credibility stamp and visibility to the whole evaluation process Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  23. ERC Grant schemesPanels: Interdisciplinary, forward-looking constitution Examples (Panels for ERC Advanced Grant) • SH1: Individuals, institutions and markets:economics, finance and management • PE10: Earth system science:physical geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, climatology, ecology, global environmental change, biogeochemical cycles, natural resources management • LS5: Evolutionary, population and environmental biology:evolution, ecology, animal behaviour, population biology, biodiversity, biogeography, marine biology, ecotoxicology, prokaryotic biology Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  24. ERC Advanced GrantSubmission of Proposals • Early registration(via EPSS) • To provide ERC with indication on number & area of proposals • One-stage electronic submission (only via EPSS) • Full Proposal • Including elements that will be evaluated during the first step Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  25. Evaluation CriteriaScientific Excellence is the sole Criterion • Quality of Principal Investigator • Quality of research project • Research Environment and Resources • Referees and panels evaluate and score criteria 1 and 2 numerically, which will result in the ranking of the proposals • Criteria 3 will be considered (step 2) on a "pass/fail" basis and commented but not scored Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  26. Coordination & Support Actions (CSA) • Support for monitoring and assessment of the ERC through call for tender and call for proposals: • Assessing the direct and indirect impacts of the ERC • Evaluating the implementation of the “Ideas” programme • Contributing to future ERC policy and initiatives • Support to Scientific Council (chairman and vice-chairs) through grants to named beneficiaries Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  27. Submission Deadlines • ERC-2008-AdG Physical Sciences & Engineering (PE1-PE10): 28/02 Social Sciences & Humanities (SH1-SH6): 18/03 Life Sciences: (LS1-LS9): 22/04 • ERC-2008-Suport: 06/03 Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  28. Documentation • ERC Work Programme (to be revised in Autumn 2007) • ERC Guide for Applicants (Research Grants plus CSAs) • ERC Grant agreement Other: • ERC Guide for Grant Holders • ERC Guide for Peer Reviewers • ERC Rules on submission, evaluation, selection and award procedures Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  29. Applicants Services • ERC National Contact Pointsinform, raise awareness and provide advice on ERC funding opportunities, application, follow-up • ERC helpdesk • EPSS helpdesktechnical support on electronic proposal submission • ERC website: http://erc.europa.euNews Alert Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  30. Some preliminary data from the ERC-2007-StG call Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  31. ERC-2007-StGEvaluation (Stage 1) Eligibility Check 9167 incoming proposals • 8799 eligible • 5 withdrawn • 368 ineligible Individual assessment 8794eligible proposals evaluated at first stage • 8235 rejected • 559 selected (LS=206, PE=251, SH=102) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  32. ERC-2007-StGEvaluation (stage 1): some statistics Time after PhD • 87% of PIs received PhD between 4 and 9 years ago Age • 36 years in average Gender • 24% female applicants (PE: 18%, LS: 21%, SH: 44%) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  33. ERC-2007-StGEvaluation (stage 1): Distribution over Scientific Domains *Indicative budget (Scientific Council, ERC work programme 2007) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  34. ERC-2007-StGEvaluation (stage 1): Geographical distribution * Based on the total of 559 retained proposal Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  35. ERC-2007-StGTimeline Call closure 25/04/2007 Remote evaluations (stage 1) May-June 2007 Panel meetings (stage 1) June-July 2007 Invitation for stage 2 July 2007 Letters of rejection August 2007 Submission deadline (stage 2) 17/09/2007 Panel meetings & Interviews Oct-Nov 2007 Feedback to applicants Dec 2007-Jan 2008 First ERC Grant agreements Spring 2008 Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  36. Stage 2 evaluation: ~ 50% will be retained Stage 1 evaluation:~ 6 % retained ERC-2007-StG Evaluation: overview 8794proposalsevaluated representing about 10 B€value of requested funding 559 retained proposals representing about 535 M€ 289.5M€available for this call  ~250projects Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  37. Number of proposals by evaluation step 368 ineligible Submitted stage 1 9167 5 withdrawn Evaluated stage 1 8794 8235 rejected Selected stage 1 559 5 not submitted to second stage 1 withdrawn Submitted stage 2 554 2 passed away 553 3 ineligible 548 Evaluated stage 2 117 rejected Selected stage 2 300 131 above threshold, reserve list Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  38. Country of host institution Number of proposals by domain and country of host institution (head quarters) 21 countries Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  39. Age Number of PIs by age Average age: 35.5 years Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  40. Time after first PhD Number of PIs by number of years after first PhD Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  41. Nationality Number of proposals by gender and nationality 32 countries Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  42. Country of residence Number of proposals by gender and country of residence 27 countries Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  43. Intra-European Mobility: Remaining and moving grantholders 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 2 IL 0 CY 0 0 Greece, 4-6/02/2008 Source: Sample 300; The size of the quadrats and arrows indicates the relevance; green=1 person blue=2 persons

  44. Repatriation – Moving back to Europe Australia Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  45. Interdisciplinarity 1 Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  46. Interdisciplinarity 2 (cross-panel) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  47. Interdisciplinarity 3 (cross-domain) Greece, 4-6/02/2008

  48. Thank you ! Greece, 4-6/02/2008

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