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Prof Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General Visit to Mexico February 2013

Prof Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General Visit to Mexico February 2013. FP7 IDEAS Programme The European Research Council “ERC goes global” campaign. ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council. The European Research Council. What is ERC. What is ERC?.

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Prof Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General Visit to Mexico February 2013

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  1. Prof Donald DingwellERC Secretary GeneralVisit to MexicoFebruary 2013 FP7 IDEAS ProgrammeThe European Research Council “ERC goes global” campaign ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council

  2. The European Research Council What is ERC

  3. What is ERC? • The ERC supports excellence in frontier research through a bottom-up, individual-based, pan-European competition • Budget: € 7.5billion (2007-2013) - 1.1 billion €/year • Scientific governance: independent Scientific Council with 22 members; full authority over funding strategy • Support by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous) • Excellence as the only criterion Legislation • Support for the individual scientist – no networks! • Global peer-review • No predetermined subjects (bottom-up) • Support of frontier research in all fields of science and humanities Strategy │ 2

  4. Capacities People (8 %) JRC non- (9 %) nuclear (3 %) Ideas Co-operation (65 %) (15 %) FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion; Increase by € 250 M/year

  5. 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 ERC Structure • 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 • The ERC Executive Agency • Executes annual work programmeas 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

  6. ERC Scientific Council Members • 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.ReinhardGENZEL(Astrophysics) • Prof. Carl-Henrik HELDIN (Molecular Cell Biology), ERC Vice President • Prof. Timothy HUNT (Biology) • Prof. Matthias KLEINER (Engineering) • Prof. Eva KONDOROSI (Biology) • Prof. Henrietta L. MOORE (Social Anthropology) • 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) Prof. Don Dingwell ERC Secretary General

  7. After 6 years of existence…A success story • Highly recognised by the research community • over 3 000 top researchers funded (65% are at an early-career stage); 58 nationalities represented • Working in >500 different institutions in 29 countries • Highly competitive (average success rate 12%) • 50% of grantees in 50 institutions; “Excellence attracts excellence” • Benchmarking effect, e.g. pan-European competition among researchers; EU value added • Efficient and fast grant management │ 7

  8. Future perspectivesHORIZON 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 │ 8

  9. The European Research Council ERC Grant schemes

  10. ERC Grant schemes Starting Grants starters (2-7 years after PhD) up to € 2.0 Mio for 5 years Advanced Grants track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years up to € 3.5 Mio for 5 years Consolidator Grants consolidators (7-12 years after PhD) up to € 2.75 Mio for 5 years Proof-of-Concept bridging gap between research - earliest stage of marketable innovation up to €150,000 for ERC grant holders Synergy Grants 2 – 4 Principal Investigators up to € 15.0 Mio for 6 years

  11. Creative freedom of the individual grantee │ 11 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

  12. Attractive featuresfor researchers from outside Europe Flexibility: • Additional “start-up” funding for scientists moving to Europe (EUR 500 000 for Starting and EUR 1 Million for Advanced grantees) • Grantee can keep affiliation with home institute outside Europe (“significant part” of work time in Europe, at least 50%) • Team members can be based outside Europe • Grantee can move within Europe with the grant Negotiation: • Several European countries/host institutions assist applicants and reward grantees with top-up funds or long-term professorships

  13. ERC funding process Peer Review EvaluationStarting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants Panel Members are appointed by the ERC Scientific Council 25 Panels covering all fields of science, technology and scholarship 3 sets of Panels: StG Panels, CoG Panels, AdG Panels Each Panel consists of the Panel Chairand 10-15 Panel Members Panel Chair oversees evaluation process for the proposals assigned to his/her panel in collaboration with the ERC staff Evaluation criteria: • Principal Investigator • Intellectual capacity and creativity • Commitment • Research project • Ground-breaking nature and potential impact • Methodology │ 13

  14. 25 panels for all areas of science Physical Mathematics Sciences Fundamental constituents of matter & Condensed matter physics Engineering Physical and analytical chemical sciences Synthetic chemistry and materials 10 panels Computer science and informatics Systems and communication engineering Products and processes engineering Universe sciences Earth system science Social Sciences & Humanities 6 panels Individuals, institutions and markets Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Environment, space and population The Human Mind Cultures and cultural production The study of the human past Life Molecular and structural biology and biochemistry Sciences Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology Cellular and developmental biology 9 panels Physiology, pathophysiology and endocrinology Neurosciences and neural disorders Immunity and infection Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health Evolutionary, population and environmental biology Applied life sciences and biotechnology

  15. Submission, evaluation and selection Starting, Consolidator and Advanced Grants Individual assessment of full proposals by panel members & referees Submission of full proposals Eligibility check StG, CoG: 2nd Panel meeting incl. interviews of applicants AdG :2nd Panel meeting Step 1 (remote) evaluation on the basis of section of proposal* by panel members Panel chairs´ meeting Consolidation of 3 main domains rank lists 1st Panel meeting Proposals passing to step 2 Proposals selected for funding *) Profile of PI, project extended synopsis

  16. International participation to proposals evaluation │ 16 * Number of instances that experts of a certain country of origin are contributing to the ERC peer review

  17. ERC Competitions 2007-2012 │ 17 Data as of 19/11/2012

  18. The European Research Council International participation

  19. Evaluated proposals from researchers with non-ERA* nationality ERC Starting Grant calls 2009 – 2013 * ERA = European Research Area *) all submitted for StG2013

  20. Evaluated proposals from researchers with non-ERA* nationality ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2013 * ERA = European Research Area European Research Council *) all submitted for AdG2013

  21. Submitted proposals by Mexican researchersERC Starting grant calls 2007 - 2013ERC Advanced grant calls 2008 – 2013 • 99% of the Mexican applicants were already resident in various European countries at the time of application (the majority of them in France) • At the time of application • only one Mexican researcher was resident in Mexico • and one in the US (successful application)

  22. ERC grantees with a non-ERA* nationalityERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012 ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2012 * ERA = European Research Area TOTAL number of grantees with non-ERA nationality : 152StG and 79AdG *) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator Data as of 19/11/2012

  23. Grantees with Mexican nationalityERC Starting Calls 2007 – 2012 ERC Advanced Calls 2008 - 2012 • none of the Mexican grantees were resident in Mexico at the time of application

  24. Few grantees from outside ERAMainly researchers moving/returning from the US Note: Researchers residing outside the European Research Area at the time of application

  25. Team members: internationalisationBreakdown by nationality(97)(sample of 636 Starting and Advanced projects) EU: 69% Assoc. Countries: 11% non-ERA: 17% Unknown: 3% Non-ERA researches come mostly from China, US, India, and Russia

  26. Non-ERA nationalities among team membersNon-ERA researchers represent 17% of all team members (without PIs) in the sample of 636 ERC projects 661 Non-ERA researches among the 3,845 team members

  27. Attracting excellent researchers worldwide ”ERC goes global” campaign targeting top and emerging research locations Canada Feb.2012 Russia Sept.2012 Japan , S.-Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong July 2012 US West Coast2013 China2013 US East Coast2013 US Texas & Mexico 2013 India2013 Brazil, Chile May 2012 Singapore, Australia, New Zealand 2013 South Africa March 2012 Chile, Argentina Jan.2013

  28. NCPs in non-ERA countries Non-ERA NCPs established as a result of the global campaign Other non-ERA NCP's *provisional NCP; official NCP tba ** In the process of being officially nominated

  29. More information on http://erc.europa.eu To subscribe to ERC newsletter and newsalerts http://erc.europa.eu/keep-updated-erc Follow us on https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanResearchCouncil https://twitter.com/ERC_Research

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