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ERC in Horizon
2020
Ben Turner
ERC Executive Agency
November 2013
What is ERC?
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ERC mission: "to reinforce excellence,
dynamism and creativity in European research"
Organisations' share of scientific articles in
top 10% of most highly cited (in their
respective research fields)
What is ERC?
The ERC supports the best researchers
to do the best research.
The European Commission
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Provides financing through the EU framework programmes
Guarantees autonomy, integrity and accountability of the ERC
Adopts annual work programmes as established by the Scientific Council
The ERC Scientific Council
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22 prominent researchers proposed by an independent identification committee
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Establishes overall scientific strategy
Ensures communication with the scientific community
and appointed by the Commission (4 years, renewable once)
The ERC Executive Agency
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Executes annual work programme as 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
Carries out communications activities
Budget
2007 – 2013
€ 7.5billion
1.1 billion €/year
2014 – 2020
€13 billion
1.9 billion €/year
ERC Grant schemes
Starting Grants
Consolidator Grants
starters
(2-7 years after PhD) up
to € 2.0 Mio
for 5 years
consolidators
(7-12 years after PhD)
up to € 2.75 Mio
for 5 years
Synergy Grants
2 – 4 Principal Investigators
up to € 15.0 Mio for 6 years
Advanced Grants
track-record of
significant research
achievements in the
last 10 years
up to € 3.5 Mio
for 5 years
Proof-of-Concept
bridging gap between research - earliest stage
of marketable innovation
up to €150,000 for ERC grant holders
ERC evaluation - 25 panels for all
areas of science
Physical
Sciences
&
Engineering
10 panels
Life
Sciences
9 panels
Mathematics
Fundamental constituents of matter
Condensed matter physics
Physical and analytical chemical sciences
Synthetic chemistry and materials
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
Molecular and structural biology and biochemistry
Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology
Cellular and developmental biology
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
After first seven
years…
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Over 40 000 proposals
received
Over 4 000 world class researchers
funded
2007
2010
2009
2012
2010
Konstantin
Novoselov
Serge
Haroche
2012
2011
1987
Jean-Marie
Lehn
2010
James
Heckman
2012
2010
Andre
Geim
2005
2000
Theodor
Hansch
2012
2010
Christoforos
Pissarides
2009
Ada
Yonath
Over 550 Host Institutions
in 29 countries
Over 20 000 papers
acknowledging ERC support
* Thomson Reuters, WoS, Oct 2013
Already over 20,000 papers acknowledging ERC support published in
international, peer reviewed journals.
Lessons learned
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Highly competitive
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Top
European
Institutions
hosting
at least 30
ERC
Grantees
by funding
Schemes
StG 2007-2013
AdG 2008-2013
First legal
signatories
of the grant
agreement
Data as of 09/09/2013
Developing a new generation of
excellent scientists
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ERC grants - mobility of researchers
Current host institutions; data as of 09/09/2013
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ERC grants share to
population share
ERC grants share to
research investment share
Expected
value
= 1,0
Success rate to applications
25.0
20.0
Success rate
15.0
10.0
5.0
0.0
0.00
5.00
10.00
15.00
Applications
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Looking ahead
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Horizon 2020 - ERC changes and
continuity
Essential features maintained
 Independent Scientific Council with full authority over funding strategy
 Executive Agency with autonomous operation
 Scientific excellence - the sole criterion on which ERC grants are awarded
Strengthening the Scientific Governance of the European Research Council
 Strengthening the links between the Scientific Council and the Executive Agency
 Merging positions of President of ERC and Secretary General
 Full-time President based in Brussels
 3 Vice-Chairs elected from amongst the Scientific Council members
 Strengthening the role of Scientists in the Steering Committee of the ERCEA
 Strengthening the relation of the Scientific Council and the ERCEA
Strengthening the links between ERC and other parts of H2020 which aim to reinforce
European Science base
“Bringing ERC with Marie Curie, FET and Research Infrastructures together in a
single programme will enable them to operate with greater coherence and in a
rationalised, simplified and more focused way”
Horizon 2020 - budget
H2020 budget € 77 billion
ERC budget € 13 billion
FP7 budget € 50.5 billion
ERC budget € 7.5 billion
JRC nonnuclear (3 %)
Co-operation
(65 %)
Capacities
(8 %)
People
(9 %)
Ideas
(15 %)
Work Programme 2014 – summary
of main features
Three ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2014: Starting;
Consolidator; and Advanced Grants.
The two streams of what was previously known as the ERC Starting Grant were divided into two
separate calls under Work Programme 2013.
The Scientific Council will analyse the pilot phase of the ERC Synergy Grant (calls were made
under Work Programmes 2012 and 2013) before deciding on the scope and timing of future
calls. There will be no call under Work Programme 2014.
Extension of restrictions on applications will apply to the 2015 calls based on the outcome of
the evaluation of the 2014 calls.
ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant,
first introduced under the revised Work Programme 2011.
Indicative budget for 2015 to help the research community to plan applications.
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Work Programme 2014 – call
planning
Starting
Consolidator
Advanced
Grant
Grant
Grant
Call identifier
ERC-2014-StG
ERC-2014-CoG
ERC-2014-AdG
ERC-2014-PoC
Publication date
11 December
2013
11 December
2013
17 June 2014
11 December
2013
Deadline(s)
25 March 2014
20 May 2014
21 October 2014
Proof of Concept
Grant
1 April 2014
1 October 2014
Budget million
EUR
(estimated
number of
grants)
485
713
450
15
(370)
(400)
(200)
(100)
21 July 2014
Planned dates to
inform
21 November
applicants
2014
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Indicative date
for signature of
grant
agreements
21 March 2015
31 October 2014 10 March 2015
31 July 2014
15 January 2015
13 January 2015
15 May 2015
28 April 2015
28 August 2015
31 November
2014
13 May 2015
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Additional slides
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ERC grants by host institution
ERC grants are concentrated
 About 50 organisations host 50 % of the Grants.
 There are 78 Organisations which host 10 or more Grants. Together they
account for 60 % of all ERC Grants.
ERC grants by host institution
SCIMAGO Label of Research Impact
NI > 1.75
NI equal or above world average
Nr Institutions
Nr Grantees
60
995
275
1,719
NI lower than world average
57
115
ERC grants are concentrated …. BUT competitive
research funding identifies "pockets of
excellence"
Of the 392 Organizations hosting ERC
Grantees which could be matched to
SCIMAGO 2012
NB: 124 organizations hosting about 260 Grantees could not be matched in SCIMAGO
Publications
Contribution to 10%
most cited publications
worldwide
(top ERA countries)
CH
IS
DK
NL
BE
US
SE
UK
AT
IE
NO
DE
FI
IL
FR
18.2
17.7
17.5
17.1
15.8
15.3
14.7
14.7
14.5
14.4
14.3
13.8
13.7
12.9
12.7
ERC grants to top 10% publications
18000
800
top 10% publications
ERC grants
DE, FR and
UK have 46%
of ERA top
10%
publications
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14000
12000
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200
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100
2000
0
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UK
DE
FR
IT
NL
ES
CH
SE
BE
DK
IL
AT
TR
FI
NO
EL
PL
PT
IE
CZ
HU
SI
SK
BG
EE
IS
CY
ERC Grants by country of host institution: StG 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and AdG 2008, 2009,
2010, 2011. Showing all host countries. "ERA" is EU27 plus AC host countries. Scientific publications
within the 10% most cited worldwide from Commission Innovation Union Competitiveness Report
2011 (2007 publications Science Metrix/ Scopus -Elsevier full counting method).