1. Sami Gülgöz Koç University EU 7th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ERC INFODAY 1 March 2010, Bogazici University, Istanbul

2. SH4 The Human Mind and Its Complexity: cognition, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and education SH4_1 Evolution of mind and cognitive functions, animal communication SH4_2 Human life-span development SH4_3 Neuropsychology and cognitive psychology SH4_4 Clinical and experimental psychology SH4_5 Formal, cognitive, functional and computational linguistics SH4_6 Typological, historical and comparative linguistics SH4_7 Acquisition and knowledge of language: psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics SH4_8 Use of language: pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis SH4_9 Second language teaching and learning, language pathologies, lexicography, terminology SH4_10 Philosophy, history of philosophy SH4_11 Epistemology, logic, philosophy of science SH4_12 Ethics and morality, bioethics SH4_13 Education: principles, techniques, typologies

3. SH4 The Human Mind and its complexity: cognition, psychology, linguistics, philosophy and education Panel Members: 10-15 members and a panel chair Education Linguistics Neuroscience Philosophy Psychology

4. From the invitation letter to become a member of the panel: This programme will provide an opportunity for established scientists and scholars to pursue frontier research with scientific merit as the sole criteria of a world ‑ wide competition.

5. Novelty Advanced Grants are intended to promote substantial advances in the frontiers of knowledge, and to encourage new productive lines of enquiry and new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines.

6. Risk-taking pursue ground-breaking, high-risk research that opens new directions in their respective research fields or other domains

8. Two alternate evaluation panels for the Advanced Grant Together, both panels form a pool of expertise with members being available to step in, if needed, in the alternate year. 2008 Panel A 2009 Panel B 2010 Panel A 2011 Panel B

9.  Two headings: Heading 1: Principal Investigator Heading 2: Research project  Scale: 4: Outstanding 3: Excellent 2: Very Good 1: Non-competitive

10.  active researchers  a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years  exceptional leaders in terms of originality and significance of their research contributions.

11. Benchmarks:  10 publications as senior author in major international peer-reviewed scientific journals  3 major research monographs, of which at least one is translated into another language (e.g. humanities and social sciences).  5 granted patents.  10 invited presentations in well-established internationally organised conferences and advanced schools.  3 research expeditions led by the applicant.

12.  Proposal content and investigator qualifications are primary  Budget is secondary

13.  Evaluation within panel  Minimum 3 panel members  Individual reports  Panel discussion  Must pass quality threshold (≥2)  Remain within the budget limit in ranking

14.  Proposal  Potential of the Principal Investigator  Quality of the Proposed Research Project  Indicative Status  Total mark  Conflict of Interest  Suggested evaluator for second stage

15.  Evaluation by remote referees (2-3) as well as panel members (3)  Individual independent reviews  Panel discussion led by lead reviewer  Ranking  Report to applicant by lead reviewer

16. Scientific Leadership Profile content and impact of the major contributions İ ndependent productivity the international recognition efforts and ability to inspire younger researchers ability to productively change research fields and/or to establish new interdisciplinary approaches

17. The Extended Synopsis concise presentation of the scientific proposal its ground-breaking nature in the context of the state of the art methodology references to relevant literature potential impact (high gain/high risk)

18. The Scientific Proposal its ground-breaking nature in the context of the state of the art methodology references to relevant literature

19. The Research Environment its ground-breaking nature in the context of the state of the art methodology references to relevant literature