ERC AdG Main Call features 1
Main Features ERC European Research Council 2
ERC BASICS Highly recognised by the research community 4 000 top researchers funded (65% are at an early career stage); 58 nationalities represented Highly competitive (average success rate 12%) Working in >500 different institutions in 29 countries 50% of grantees in 50 institutions : Excellence attracts excellence Benchmarking effect: impact on national programmes and agencies; national funding for best "runners up" Efficient and fast grant management
Budget: 30% of H2020 Texto 1 Texto2 Texto 3
European Research Council Scientific excellence: sole evaluation criteria (IP and project) Bottom up approach: All fields Individual projects (IP) Attractive funding [StG: 1,5 M ] [CoG: 2,0M ] [AdG: 2,5 M ] 5 years Portability of grants 3 rd countries incentives
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ERC Work programme 2014 7
Work Programme 2014: Main features Publication date of first calls: December 11, 2013 Three ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2014: Starting; Consolidator; and Advanced Grants ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant, first introduced in 2011 Overhead: 25% Indicative budget for 2015 to help the research community to plan applications Extension of restrictions on applications will apply to the 2015 calls based on the outcome of the evaluation of the 2014 calls Open access is now mandatory New templates for CV (flexible)
Resubmission Restrictions A Principal Investigator whose proposal is evaluated as category C in the Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant calls for proposals under Work Programme 2014 may not submit a proposal to the Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant calls for proposals made under Work Programme 2015 and 2016. A Principal Investigator whose proposal is finally evaluated as category B in the Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant calls for proposals under Work Programme 2014 may not submit a proposal to the Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant calls for proposals made under Work Programme 2015. (Even in step 2 B ) A Principal Investigator whose proposal is finally evaluated as category A in the Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant calls for proposals under Work Programme 2014 but it is not funded for budgetary reasons may submit a proposal to the Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grant calls for proposals made under Work Programme 2015.
3 Types of grants + PoC
Advanced Grants: BASIC PROFILE Texto 1 Texto2 Texto 3
ERC 2014: Calendar and Budget Texto 1 Texto2 Texto 3
ERC 2015: Calendar and Budget Texto 1 Texto2 Texto 3
CABECERA Texto 1 Texto2 Texto 3
25 pannels for all areas of science Texto 1 Texto2 Texto 3
Evaluation Panels: general features 25 Evaluation Panels. 12 15 panel members (PM) within each panel, one of them acting as Panel Chair (PC). Up to 2 PM of the same country is allowed. Recruited by the Scientific Council Assigned to the panel according to CV and expertise Exclusion of reviewers: up to three names, no reason needs to be provided Conflict of interests taken into account for each individual proposal Panel members are published (ERC web page) once the evaluation is over PM cannot submit a proposal during the call they are evaluating PM members change in consecutive years
Submission of Proposals Publication date of first calls: December 11, 2013 Three ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2014: Starting; Consolidator; and Advanced Grants ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant, first introduced in 2011 Overhead: 25% Indicative budget for 2015 to help the research community to plan applications Extension of restrictions on applications will apply to the 2015 calls based on the outcome of the evaluation of the 2014 calls Open access is now mandatory New templates for CV (flexible)
Submission of Proposals
Submission, evaluation and selection
Excellence is the sole evaluation criterion Evaluation of excellence at two levels: Excellence of the Research Project Ground breaking nature and potential impact (important challenges, developments across disciplines, high risk high gain) Scientific Approach (novel concepts/methodology) Excellence of the Principal Investigator Intellectual capacity (achievements beyond the state of the art) Creativity (evidence of creative independent thinking, for AdG additionally: Demonstrated leadership in training and advancement of young scientists) Commitment (commitment of working time to the project: minimum 30% for AdG and min. 50% in an EU Member State or Associated country)
Excellent Investigators (AdG). Promising track record of recent achievements (at least one or more of the following benchmarks for AdG) Significant peer reviewed publications in high impact journals/conference proceedings (10) major research monographs (3) International recognition through awards, prizes, Academy memberships, Editorial Boards Invited presentations to established international conferences (10) Member of Organisational/Steering Committee of international conferences in the field (3) Depending on the field: Patents (5), research expeditions (3) Funding record and Mentoring (ability to inspire young researchers)
ERC Spanish Grantees (some Examples) 22
CABECERA STATEBGLATAMERICA: A comparative history of the state building process in Latin America (1820 1870) ERC 2008 AdG, SH6 Juan Carlos Garavaglia UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, ESPAÑA 23
CABECERA COMP DES MAT: Advanced tools for computational design of engineering materials ERC 2012 ADG, PE8 Francisco Javier (Xavier) Oliver Olivella CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA 24
CABECERA SIMDNA: Advanced multiscale simulation of DNA ERC 2011 ADG, PE4 Modesto Orozco López FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA IRB 25
CABECERA CATGOLD: ADVANCING GOLD CATALYSIS ERC 2012 ADG, PE5 Antonio María Echavarren Pablos FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA 26
CABECERA AP 1 FUN: AP 1 (Fos/Jun) functions in physiology and disease ERC 2008 AdG, LS4 Erwin F. Wagner FUNDACION CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III 27
CABECERA ABEP: Asset Bubbles and Economic Policy ERC 2009 AdG, SH1 Jaume Ventura Fontanet CENTRE DE RECERCA EN ECONOMIA INTERNACIONAL (CREI) 28
CABECERA APMPAL: Asset Prices and Macro Policy when Agents Learn ERC 2012 ADG, SH1 Albert Marcet Torrens CONSORCI MARKETS ORGANIZATIONS AND VOTES IN ECONOMICS 29
CABECERA PRESBYOPIA: Bio inspired optical corrections of presbyopia ERC 2011 ADG, LS7 Susana Marcos Celestino AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS 30
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