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Prof Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General

FP7 IDEAS Programme The European Research Council UNICA-ENCS Rectors Seminar "Europe-Canada: The Future of Academic Cooperation". Prof Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General. ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council. What is ERC?.

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Prof Donald Dingwell ERC Secretary General

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  1. FP7 IDEAS ProgrammeThe European Research Council UNICA-ENCS Rectors Seminar "Europe-Canada: The Future of Academic Cooperation" Prof Donald DingwellERC Secretary General ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council

  2. 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

  3. After 5 years of existence…A success story • Highly recognised by the research community • ~3 000 top researchers selected (65% are at early-career stage); 56 nationalities represented • Working in >500 different institutions in 27 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 │ 3

  4. "Despite being a new, and thus untried instrument, the ERC has manifestly succeeded in attracting and funding world-class research and is playing an important role in anchoring research talent." . The independent interim evaluation of FP7 ERC Grantee StG 2007 ERC Grantee AdG 2011 Konstantin Novoselov Nobel 2010 Jean-Marie Lehn ERC Grantee AdG 2010 ERC Grantee AdG 2010 Theodor Hansch James Heckman Prestige 4 Nobel Prize laureates among ERC grantees 3 Fields Medalists currently funded by ERC Stanislav SmirnovAdG 2008 Simon DonaldsonAdG 2009 Elon LindenstraussAdG 2010 Other Prizes awarded to ERC grantees EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2010 – Jason W CHIN - StG 2007 MILLENIUM AWARD 2010 – Michael GRATZEL - AdG 2009 WOLF PRIZE 2010 – Anton ZEILINGER - AdG 2008 David BAULCOMBE - AdG 2008 Alain ASPECT – AdG 2010 EUROPEAN LATSIS PRIZE 2010 – Ilkka HANSKI - AdG 2008 2011 Prizes awarded to ERC grantees EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2011 - Simon Boulton - AdG 2010 THE SHAW PRIZE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 2011 - Christodoulou Demetrios - AdG 2009 CRAFOORD PRIZE IN BIOSCIENCES 2011 - Ilkka Hanski - AdG 2008 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO AWARD FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE 2011 - Anne L'Huillier - AdG 2008 PRINCE OF ASTURIAS AWARD FOR TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 2011 – Giacomo Rizzolatti - AdG 2009 FEBS|EMBO WOMEN IN SCIENCE AWARD 2011- Carol Robinson - AdG 2010 BALZAN PRIZE 2011 - Joseph Silk - AdG 2010 │ 4

  5. Future perspectivesERC’s role in the Innovation Union 2020 │ 5 • 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 (proposed budget: 15 billion euro) • Future and Emerging Technologies • Marie Curie • Research Infrastructures

  6. Capacities People (8 %) JRC non- (9 %) nuclear (3 %) Ideas Co-operation (65 %) (15 %) Budget proposal under HORIZON 2020 H2020 budget € 88 billion ERC budget € 15 billion FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion

  7. 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

  8. Creative freedom of the individual grantee │ 8 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. International participation to proposals evaluation │ 11 * Number of instances that experts of a certain country of origin are contributing to the ERC peer review

  12. ERC Competitions 2007-2012 │ 12 Data as of 30/07/2012

  13. Evaluated proposals from researchers with non-ERA* nationality ERC Starting Grant calls 2009 – 2012 * ERA = European Research Area

  14. Evaluated proposals from researchers with non-ERA* nationality ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2012 * ERA = European Research Area European Research Council

  15. Applications from Canadian researchersERC Starting grant calls 2007 - 2012ERC Advanced grant calls 2008 – 2012 • 27 of the Canadian applicants had residence in Canada at the time of application • 44 applications from foreign researchers with residence in Canada (of which 39 are Europeans) *) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator

  16. ERC grantees with a non-ERA* nationalityERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012 ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2011 * ERA = European Research Area TOTAL number of grantees with non-ERA nationality : 153 StG and 58 AdG *) nationality as last declared by the principal investigator Data as of 30/07/2012

  17. ERC grants awarded to Canadian researchersERC Starting Grant calls 2007-2012 ERC Advanced Grant calls 2008 – 2011 Geographical distribution Thematic distribution

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

  19. Team members: internationalisationa sample of 383 on-going projectsabout 2200 team members without principal investigators • the best represented non-ERA nationalities are: Chinese - 65 (3%), Americans - 52 (2%), and Indians - 51 (2%) • 1% of the team members are Canadians EU: 67% Assoc. Countries: 13% Other Countries: 17% Unknown: 3%

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

  21. More information on ERC • Ideas NCPs http://erc.europa.eu/national-contact-points • ERC Website http://erc.europa.eu • ERC Helpdesk http://erc.europa.eu/about-erc/links • Quarterly ERC e-newsletter and e-News Alerts • Euraxess-Jobs http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/index New ERC calls Expected Publication Deadline Starting 2013 10 July 2012 17 Oct. 2012 Consolidator 2013 7 Nov. 2012 21 Feb. 2013 Advanced 2013 10 July 2012 22 Nov. 2012 Synergy 2013 10 Oct. 2012 10 Jan. 2013 PoC 2013 10 Jan. 2013 24 April 2013 3 Oct. 2013

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