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

2. FP7 IDEAS Programme

3. Budget ( ):
7.51 billion Euro (~ 15% of FP7 Budget)
~1 billion Euro/year

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

5. 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

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

7. 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)

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Synergy-2012: Next steps
Step 1-B: 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.

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