European Research Council

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FP7 IDEAS ProgrammeThe ERC funding schemes Case
Study StG1
Gianpietro van de Goor, PhDDeputy Head of Unit
Strategic matters and relations with the ERC
Scientific Council ERC-DIS / European
Commission Kalkara/Malta, 11 September 2008
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ERC-2007-StG Electronic Proposal Submission
System

• EPSS coped well with massive response
• First ERC call for proposals closed on 25/04
  without any significant technical issue.
• Total number of proposals 9.167 (registration
  figure 11.251)
• The peak transaction time for the reference
  transaction was 1.5 seconds
• The system handled a peak of 36 transactions a
  second

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ERC-2007-StG Two step evaluation process
Stage 1 evaluation 6 success rate
8794 proposalsevaluated (9167
submitted!) Requested budget about 10
billion
Stage 2 evaluation 54 success rate
Interviews
559 full proposals Requested budgetabout
535 million
300 anticipated grants Awarded budgetabout
300 million
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ERC Starting GrantProfile of the PI

• Any nationality or age
• Any current place of work but working or
  moving to work in Europe(EU member state, FP7
  Associated Country)
• 3-8 years of experience after PhD - certain types
  of career breaks are accepted up to a maximum of
  2 years read the Guide for Applicants!
• Potential for research independence and evidence
  of maturity
• at least one important publication without
  participation of PhD supervisor
• Track-record of early research achievements
  appropriate to their research field and career
  stage ? Starters vs Consolidators
• First StG call (300 grants, 21 host countries, 32
  nationalities, 170 host institutes)
• Average Age 35 years (spans from 28 to 44y)
• Average experience 6-7 years
• Average grant size
• Gender 26 women (as low as 12 in LS2 up to 71
  in SH4)

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ERC-2007-StG Profile of researchers- Gender and
domain (top 300)
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences Eng.
Social S. Humanities
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ERC-2007-StG Stage 1 Country of host
institution of the 8794 evaluated proposals
Percentage of eligible proposals by country of
host institutions and domains
34 countries
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ERC-2007-StG Stage 2 Outcome Grantees by
country of host institution (top 300)
Percentage of grants by country of host
institution
21 countries
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ERC-2007-StG Repatriation and Recruitment to
Europe
FI
SE
UK
DE
BE
CH
ES
EL
IL
from Argentinia
Source Top 300 proposals
from Australia
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ERC-2007-StG Stage 2 OutcomeIncoming staying
grantees (top 300)
Percentage of grants by country of host
institution
21 countries
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ERC Starting Grant Case StudiesPublished in
'Science at the service of Europe'DG-RTDs- a
brochure based on DG-RTDs Annual Activity Report
2007
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ERC Starting Grant Case StudiesOther
publications available or coming soon

• List with names of PIs and host institutions of
  430 retained proposals, incl top 300 being funded
  http//erc.europa.eu/pdf/Listfinal.pdf
• ERC Starting Grant brochure with Case
  Studiesavailable end of October
• Various brochures on Starting Grant case studies
  produced/published by national actors (such as in
  DE, AT, BE, FR)
• FP7 project database (FP IDEAS projects)http//co
  rdis.europa.eu/fp7/projects
• ERC project databasein development

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