Claudio Bordignon. Il ruolo dell’ERC nello sviluppo della ricerca europea

1. European Research Council
FP7 IDEAS Programme
The European Research Council
… and its funding schemes.
Claudio Bordignon
Member of the ERC Scientific
Council
“il ruolo dell’ERC nello sviluppo della
ricerca europea”
Insieme per la Ricerca
Università Luigi Bocconi
Milano, 21 settembre 2009
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2. European Research Council
ERC Grant schemes
3R and 2 schemes
Aim: Retain – Repatriate – Recruit
Favour “brain gain” and “reverse brain drain”
improve career opportunities and independence - especially for
young researchers
increase competition, recognition and international visibility -
for excellent individual scientists and scholars in Europe
Raise aspiration and achievement of basic research in Europe -
comparability/benchmark for researchers and research systems
Activities: Two complementary funding schemes
ERC Starting Grant (StG): attract & retain the next generation of
independent research leaders - up to € 2.0 Mio for 5 years
ERC Advanced Grant (AdG): attract & reward established
independent research leaders - up to € 3.5 Mio for 5 years
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3. European Research Council
ERC Grant schemes
Who can apply? – General requirements
1. Principal Investigator (PI)
Nationality, age or current place of work not relevant
2. In conjunction with a Host organisation
To be located in MS or AC
3. Frontier Research Project
All fields of science, engineering and scholarship are
eligible (investigator-driven, bottom-up)
4. Individual research team
PI has freedom to choose National or trans-national
character, if scientific added value proven
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4. European Research Council
ERC Grant schemes
All fields, budget pre-allocation in 3 + 1 areas
ERC covers all fields of science, engineering and scholarship
For operational reasons the ScC agreed on 3 main research
domains + interdisciplinary research:
Physical Sciences & Engineering – 10 Panels
Life Sciences (incl. medical) – 9 Panels
Social Sciences & Humanities – 6 Panels
Interdisciplinary Research (cross-panel / cross-domain) –
Panel Chairs meeting
The call budget will be pre-allocated to these areas as follows:
39% - 34% - 14% - 13%
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5. European Research Council
ERC Budget
And
Financials

6. European Research Council

7. European Research Council

8. European Research Council
National R&D funding and ERC grants

9. European Research Council
Comparison:
ERC Starting Grant 2007 & 2009 calls

10. ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call
Submitted 9167 proposals
European Research Council
5
by host countries
477
236
92
11
132 172 5
17
1144
542
294 1038 207
6 84
728 153 40
201
40 20 183 130
1625
183 21
568 48
181
339
1 38
199
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© ERC 2009: StG 07-299

11. ERC Starting Grant: 2007 call
Successful proposals
European Research Council
by country of host institution
Source: 299 selected proposals
7
1
11
2 4
58
27
11 31
1
38
15 4
6
25
2
25 1
4
2
24
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StG 07-299, 05 Dec. 2008

12. ERC StG 2007 & 2009 European Research Council
Distribution of projects by host country
Source: 299 StG 07; 237 StG 09 proposals
Starting grant 2007
Starting grant 2009
20
15
% of grantees
10
5
0
UK FR DE ES NL IT IL CH BE SE FI DK AT HU EL PT IE PL CY EE BG CZ NO
Country of host institution ERC 2009: StG-07-299/StG-09-237

13. ERC StG 2007 & 2009 European Research Council
Distribution of grantees per nationality
Source: 299 StG 07; 237 StG 09 proposals
Starting Grants 2007
Starting Grants 2009
14
12
10
% of grantees
8
6
4
2
0
DE IT FR UK NL ES IL BE SE FI HU EL US CH AT DK PT IE PL JP CY AR CN TR AU CZ NO RO CA RU SL SK EE KR MX SG UA AL
Nationality of grantee
ERC 2009: StG-07-299/StG-09-237

14. ERC StG 2007/2009 & AdG 2008/2009
European Research Council
5 5
0 3 Submitted proposals
236 70
49 22 StG 07 AdG 08
92 29 477 65
StG 09 AdG 09
30 18 86 64
11 4
1144 299 2 3
132 16 347 306 172 33
5 2
29 16 47 30
2 1
542 107 17 2
134 80 1038 179 4 1
207 71
256 145 34 23
294 63
95 36 6 1 84 29
40 4
0 0 28 11
4 4
201 96 153 42
183 28
728 206 40 15 130 32
61 102 52 37
26 18
228 159 19 8 26 21
183 17 21 2
568 135 20 4
42 10 1 0 48 22
227 95 6 3
0 2 7 7
1625 301 181 43
0 1
434 220 43 17
339 92
90 31
38 7
1 1 ME AL
9 2
1 0 0 0 0 1 199 141
0 1 0 0 80 79

15. European Research Council
ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008
Grantees by nationality
80
Total population DE : Advanced grant 08
70 82 Mio
Starting grant 07
60
Number of Grantees
50
40
Total population IL :
7.4 Mio
30
Total population CH :
20 7.6 Mio
10
0
DE UK FR IT NL IL ES SE BE FI US AT CH EL HU DK PL PT AU CA CY JP NO TR IE AR BG CN CZ IS RO RU SI SK
StG-07:299; AdG-08:275 Nationality │ 15

16. ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008 European Research Council
Success rate by host country
(i.e. ratio submitted – selected proposals)
12
ERC Starting Grant 2007
Success rates in %
10
8
6
4
2
0
FR UK NL ES BE DE FI AT DK SE IT IE EL PT CY HU BG CZ IL CH NO
EU - 15 EU - 12 Assoc. C.
30
25 ERC Advanced Grant 2008
Sucess rate in %
20
15
10
5
0
SE UK AT NL FR DE FI DK ES BE IT PT EL CY HU BG CZ PL CH IS IL NO TR
EU - 15 EU - 12 Assoc. C.

17. European Research Council
ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008
Origin of grantees
Relocation FR
110 1
Staying non-Europeans IT 1
DE 2
100 Staying Europeans (non-citizens)
US 3
Staying Citizens
90
TR
80 1
SE 1
NL 1
70
No. of Grantees
FI 1
ES 1
60
BE 1
IT 3
50
AT 3
FR 3
40
DE 8
30
20
10
0
UK FR DE NL IT CH ES IL SE BE FI AT HU EL DK PT CY NO CZ IE BG PL TR IS
Country of host institution │ 17

18. ERC StG 2007 & 2009 European Research Council
Submissions from researchers resident outside EU & AC
Source: 11670 submitted proposals (9167 + 2503)
13
EU & 2
26
AC
206 2 7 14
2
3
2
2
3
19
3

19. ERC StG 2007 & 2009 European Research Council
Submissions from nationals of “third countries”
Note: 740 proposals
Russia
Canada
139
36 Belarus 8
Ukraine Kazakhstan
40 1
USA Bosnia Armenia Uzbekistan Japan
116 2 4 3 Korea 24
Lebanon China
Tunisia Iran 1 10
Morocco 3 61
2 Algeria 8 Cisjordanie 1
Egypt
Pakistan Taiwan 5
Bangladesh
Mexico 7 4 2
12 Cuba India 5 Hong Kong
5 53 1
Thailand Viet Nam
Nigeria
1 2 Philippines
Venezuela Togo
1 Ethiopia 1 Sri Lanka
Colombia
4 1 Singapore Malaysia
1
Kenya 1 3
2 8 5
Congo
1 Tanzania 1
Peru
Brasilia
4 Malawi
21 1 Mauritius
Chile
Zimbabwe 1 1
Australia
3
Uruguay South Africa 35
Argentina
3 2
18
New Zealand
8
Source: STG 07 and StG 2009: 9167 submitted proposals

20. ERC StG 2007 & AdG 2008 European Research Council
Top twenty most successful Host Institutions
(ranked by total budget of grants received)
1. CNRS
2. University of Oxford
3. EPF Lausanne
4. Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine
5. Weizmann Institute of Science
6. University of Cambridge
7. Max Planck Society
8. ETH Zurich
9. University of Helsinki
10. University College London
11. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12. University of Nijmegen
13. Karolinska Institute
14. University of Edinburgh
15. Free University of Amsterdam
16. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
17. Catholic University Leuven
18. University of Genève
19. Institute National de la Santé et de la Recherché Medical
20. University of St Andrews

21. European Research Council
L’ERC rappresenta una straordinaria opportunità
per I nostri migliori ricercatori
L’ERC non può risolvere I problemi della ricerca
italiana
I risultati dei bandi ERC offrono (e offriranno) una
misura precisa dei progressi della nostra ricerca