The European Research Council Alain Peyraube European Research Council Scientific Council COST-ERC Lyon, June 1st, 2012

FP7 IDEAS Programme

Budget (2007-2013): 7.51 billion Euro (~ 15% of FP7 Budget) ~1 billion Euro/year

Evaluation, Monitoring and Review Costs: 7 Budget 2012: 1,578.100 Euros Starting-Grant : 729.98 ME Advanced-Grant: 679.98 Synergy-Grant: 150 Proof of Concept: 10 Other Activities: 1.14 Evaluation, Monitoring and Review Costs: 7

Budget 2012 (2) PE (Physical Sciences and Engineering): 44 % LS (Life Sciences): 39 % SH (Social Sciences and Humanities): 17 % Research proposals of a multi- and inter-disciplinary nature strongly encouraged throughout the ERC’s schemes

Three types of grants ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants (up to 1 500 000 Euros [+ 500 000 for PIs moving from a third country to the EU] for a period of up to 5 years) ERC Advanced Investigator Grants (up to E. 2 500 000 [+ 1 000 000 for PIs moving from a third country to the EU] for a period of up to 5 years) ERC Synergy Grants (up to Euros 15 000 000 for a period of up to 6 years) + Proof of Concept funding (up to Euros 150 000 for a period of 12 months)

Synergy Grant Designed to foster research at the intellectual frontiers  expected that Synergy groups will be interdisciplinary Not a network Minimum of 2 and maximum of 4 PIs (+, as necessary, their teams). One of the PIs designated as the Lead PI Section 1: Scientific proposal (15 pages) Section 2 : Extended synopsis (5 pages), CV (2 pages per PI), track-record (2 pages per PI)

New Panel structure and description Social Sciences and Humanities (2012) SH1 Individuals, institutions and markets: economics, finance and management SH2 Institutions, values and beliefs and behaviour: sociology, social anthropology, political science, law, communication, social studies of science and technology SH3 Environment, space and population: environmental studies, geography, demography, migration, regional and urban studies SH4 The human mind and its complexity: cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, education SH5 Cultures and cultural production: literature, philosophy, visual and performing arts, music, cultural and comparative studies SH6 The study of the human past: archaeology, history and memory

Submitted and mainlist proposals by domain ERC Starting Grant 2011 Submitted and mainlist proposals by domain Submitted proposals Mainlist Life Sciences 1440 169 = 11.7% Physical Sciences & Engineering 1690 222 = 13.1% Social Sciences & Humanities 950 89 = 9.4% ∑ = 480 = 11.8% ∑ = 4080 │ 9 9

Number of submitted and granted proposals Advanced Grant 2011 Number of submitted and granted proposals Submitted proposals Main List Life Sciences 789 107=13.5% Physical Sciences & Engineering 917 134=14.6% Social Sciences & Humanities 578 53=9.2% ∑ = 2284 ∑ = 294, 12.9% │ 10 │ 10 10 10

Advanced Grant 2011 Distribution by Host Institution Submissions: 474 UK (20.75%), 266 DE (11.6%), 269 IT (11.8%), 215 FR (9.4%), 141 ES (6.18%), 119 NL (5.2%), … Granted: 68 UK, 52 DE, 31 FR, 23 IT, 22 CH, 20 NL, 15 ES, 11 IL, 9 DK, 9 SE, 7 AT, 7 BE, 4 EL, 4 NO, 3 FI, 3 HU, 2 IE, 2 PT, 1 CY, 1 PL Submissions in the SH domain: 133 UK, 84 IT, 44 DE, 42 NL, 40 ES, 36 FR, … Granted in the SH domain: 16 UK, 10 IT, 5 DE & 5 FR, 4 NL, 3 ES, 2 BE, 2 CH, 2 IL, 2 NO, 1 IE, 1 PT

Host Institutions in HSS – 2007-2011 From 2007 to 2011, 5251 proposals submitted in HSS  460 granted (8.76%) UK : 143 granted proposals (31%); NL : 56 (12%); FR : 53 (11.5%); DE : 42 (9%); IT : 41 (9%); ES : 28 (6%) … HU: 4, BG: 3, CZ: 1, EE: 1, PL: 1 = 10

Host Institutions with more than 5 granted proposals in HSS - 2007-2011 1. CNRS, Paris, FR : 21 2. University College of London, UK : 15 3. London School of Economics & Political Science, UK : 14; Oxford University, UK : 14; Universiteit van Amsterdam, NL : 14  6. Cambridge University, UK : 12 7. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE : 10; Universiteit Leiden, NL : 10; University of Edinburgh, UK : 10

HI with more than 5 granted proposals in HSS - 2007-2011 (2) 10. Fondation Jean-Jacques Laffont (Toulouse School of Economics), FR : 8 11. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IL : 7; Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, ES : 7; Vereniging Voor Christelijik Hoger Onder. Wetensch. Ond., Amsterdam, NL : 7 14. Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CEI), Barcelona, ES : 6; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, FR : 6; MPG (Max-Planck G.), Munich, DE : 6; Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, SE : 6

HI with more than 5 granted proposals in HSS - 2007-2011 (3) 18. European University Institute, Florence, IT : 5; Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, Paris : 5; Helsingin Yliopisto, Helsinki, FI : 5; Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, NL : 5; Universitaet Hamburg, DE : 5; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona : 5; University of Leeds, UK : 5  

HI of CEE countries in HSS - 2007-2011 Kozep-Europai Egyetem, Budapest (HU): 4 Charles University, Prague (CZ): 1 New Bulgarian University, Sofia (BG): 1 Sofia University (BG): 1 Center for Advanced Study, Sofia (BG): 1 University of Tartu (EE): 1 University of Warsaw (PL): 1

2012 : Starting, Advanced and Synergy Starting-2012: 4750 proposals submitted (2055 in PE, 1652 in LS, 1030 in SH)  1084 passed to Step 2 (23%), out of which 206 in SH Advanced-2012: 2304 proposals submitted (977 in PE, 772 in LS, 555 in SH) Synergy-2012: 710 proposals submitted  699 eligible (101 in SH) 99 passed to Step 1-B (21 in SH) Average budget requested: 12.5 ME in PE, 11.7 ME in LS, 10.4 ME in SH

Synergy-2012: Next steps Step 1-B: 26-28 June. Between 20 and 25 proposals should be selected, out of the 99 Step 2 in October (?): interviews of the C-PIs (coordinator-PIs) that passed the Step 1-B Step 3, around November: selection of the ca. 12 to 15 proposals to be granted.

Applicants Services ERC National Contact Points inform, raise awareness and provide advice on ERC funding opportunities, application, follow-up ERC helpdesk EPSS helpdesk technical support on electronic proposal submission ERC website: http://erc.europa.eu ERC News Alert: http://erc.europa.eu/?fuseaction=reg.edit#01

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