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European Research Council

The European Research CouncilThe European Research CouncilGrants ProgramGrants Program

Analysis of Results from first StG and AdG

competitions, anda forward look

Fotis Kafatos ERC President

Weizmann Institute of ScienceRehovot, 16 December 2009

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Overview

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Jack MettheyERC Executive Agency Director ad interim

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The ERC BoardThe ERC BoardLinking strategy and operationsLinking strategy and operations

Prof. Fotis KafatosERC President

Prof. Helga NowotnyDr. Daniel EsteveERC Vice-Presidents

Prof. Andreu Mas-Colell

ERC Secretary-General

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Frontier research based solely on excellence

Open competition of outstanding individualsof all nationalities and ages

willing to stay/move and do research in Europe (*)

(*) minimum 50% time in Europe, and 30% time on project Europe = 39 countries of European Research Area (ERA)

Ambitious, well-funded grants

(StG up to €2 mil / AdG up to €3.5 mil)

No quotas per country/region, gender, etc.

All fields supported: 3 Domains (humanities to engineering)

Encourage new fields, bottom up

The ERC paradigm

researcher

proposal

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ERC Grant schemesERC Grant schemes Two complementary funding schemes

ERC Starting Grant (StG): attract & retain the next generation of independent research leaders - up to € 2.0 Mio for 5 yearsSupport researchers at the start of their independent research career and establishing or consolidating their own independent research team (or research programme)Provide a structure for transition from working under a supervisor to an independent research leader

ERC Advanced Grant (AdG): attract & reward established independent research leaders - up to € 3.5 Mio for 5 yearsDesigned to support excellent investigator-initiated frontier research projects by established independent research leadersTargeting researchers who have already established their independence as team leaders and are exceptional leaders in terms of significance of their research achievements (in the last 10 years)

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ERC budget: € 1 billion/year ERC budget: € 1 billion/year (on average)(on average)

ERC budget Averages to € 1 billion/year

But less than 0.5% of R&D spending in Europe

Compare with US Research Councils

NSF $ 6.85 billion (2009)NIH $ 30.5 billion (2009) EU-12 & EU-15 funds come from:

National & regional funding agencies, industry, local institutions

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To become competitive,To become competitive,ERC budget increases by € 250 M€ / yearERC budget increases by € 250 M€ / year

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Physical Sciences& Engineering

Social Sciences &Humanities

Life Sciences

ERC awards: StG 2007Principal Investigators

Distribution of 299 grants

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ERC awards: AdG 2008similar clustering of 275 successful PIs

Physical Sciences& Engineering

Status 11.11.2008

Social Sciences &HumanitiesLife Sciences

Interdisciplinary

Total first StG/AdG awards 574

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European Research Council ERC StG-07, StG-09 & AdG-08, AdG-09

The top twenty most successful Host Institutions (ranked after total budget of grants received)

ISRAELISRAEL

SWITZERLANDSWITZERLAND

Isreal and Switzerland: Two highly successful small countries

Isreal and Switzerland: Two highly successful small countries

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ERC grants by IL host

NB: AdG-09 not completeNB: AdG-09 not complete

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European Research Council ERC StG 2007 & ERC StG 2009

Success rate by country of host institution (i.e. ratio submitted / selected proposals)

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BE DK FR NL UK FI AT DE IE PT ES SE IT EL EE PL HU CH IL

EU - 15 EU - 12 Assoc. C.

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Source: All proposals (2503) and 237 top listed proposals

ERC Starting Grant 2009

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FR UK NL ES BE DE FI AT DK SE IT IE EL PT CY HU BG CZ IL CH NO


in %

Source: All submitted proposals (9167) and 299 selected projects

ERC Starting Grant 2007

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ERC AdG 2008 & ERC AdG 2009

Success rate by country of host institution (i.e. ratio submitted / selected proposals)

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10%

20%

30%

DE FR NL SE UK AT PT DK ES IT IE FI BE HU PL CH NO IL

EU - 15 EU - 12 Assoc. C.Source: All proposals (1584) and 230 top listed proposals

ERC Advanced Grant 2009

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SE UK AT NL FR DE FI DK ES BE IT PT EL CY HU BG CZ PL CH IS IL NO TR


in %

Source: All submitted proposals (2167) and 275 selected projects

ERC Advanced Grant 2008

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Data for: StG-07AdG-08StG-09

M Antonoyiannakis, J Hemmelskamp and FC Kafatos, Cell 136, 805 (6 March 2009)

Success scales with country’s R&D investmentInvest to succeed !

(grants to host country)

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Israel (4.71% of GDP) Sweden (3.86%) Finland (3.43%) Switzerland (2.93%) Iceland (2.83%) Germany (2.51%) Austria (2.43%) Denmark (2.44%) France (2.13%)

Belgium (1.82%) Netherlands (1.78%) UK (1.76%) Luxembourg (1.56%) Norway (1.51%) Czech Rep (1.42%) Ireland (1.25%) Slovenia (1.22%) Spain (1.12%)

Italy (1.10%)

Disparate national policies: A major challenge Variable R&D intensity (as % of GDP)

Europe (ERA) must be competitive as a continent, but also as individual member states

(2005 data)

R&D intensity:10-fold differences

within ERA

Meanwhile…Japan 3.17%Korea 2.99% USA 2.67% EU 1.84% China 1.4%

China to overtake the EU in 2009!

Hungary (0.94%) Portugal (0.80%) Lithuania (0.76%)

Turkey (0.67%) Greece (0.61%)

Malta (0.60%) Latvia (0.57%)

Poland (0.57%) Slovakia (0.51%).

Bulgaria (0.48%) Cyprus (0.40%)

Romania (0.39%)

high

mediumlow

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Considering research spending in the current financial difficulties as a luxury is a "major mistake”.

The principal problem in reaching the 3% goal [is] getting member states to commit to higher targets of national funding to supplement European funds from FP7.

"To put it simply, the best way to succeed is to increase capacity at home. I know that's easier said than done but it is important for all member states."

"We noticed a strong and interesting correlation between domestic investment in R&D and success rate in FP7," Mr Potočnik observed.

Outgoing Research Commissioner Janez Potočnik on BBC News, 8 May 2009

Research spending: A necessity, not a luxury

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StG 2007 + AdG 2008: mobility of researchers

574 grants, 24 host countries, 32 nationalities

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Relocation

Staying non-Europeans

Staying Europeans (non-citizens)

Staying Citizens

Which countries attract which researchers?

Relocating (from any country to host)

Staying country’s citizens

Principle Investigators (PIs)

Non-European, staying

European, staying

Country’s citizens, staying

All countries attract their citizens – 6 (UK, CH, ES, FR, NL, DE) also strongly non-citizens

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ERC StG 2007 & ERC AdG 2008 Age distribution of grantees

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Advanced grant 08

Starting grant 07

Young investigatorsas intended, Steep PI

pyramid

Established investigatorsBroad age distribution

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Overall success rates for women roughly follow distribution of junior / senior professorships in Europe

NB: Length of error bars = +/- 2 σ NB: Length of error bars = +/- 2 σ

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Both StG and AdG budgets will increase from 2009-2013

2010 526 M€ for StG ……. 590 M€ for AdG

2010 Enlarge time-window of StG eligibility (becomes now 2-10 yrs

post-PhD)

But separately evaluate True Starters / Consolidators to be fair to both sub-categories

Executive Agency operational & autonomous in 2009: Approx. 270 staff, 45 PhD scientists

Future plans

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Ongoing developments

ERC Director position now open!!“A distinguished scientist

with robust administrative experience”

Position combines current postsof Director of Executive Agency and Secretary General

See http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/personnel_administration/documents/com2009_10222_en.pdf

or contactDr. Jack Metthey

ERCEA Director ad interimTel: +32 (0)2 /296 88 70

E-mail: [email protected]

ERC Director position now open!!“A distinguished scientist

with robust administrative experience”

Position combines current postsof Director of Executive Agency and Secretary General

See http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/personnel_administration/documents/com2009_10222_en.pdf

or contactDr. Jack Metthey

ERCEA Director ad interimTel: +32 (0)2 /296 88 70

E-mail: [email protected]

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