ERC in Horizon 2020 Ben Turner ERC Executive Agency November 2013

What is ERC? │ 2

ERC mission: "to reinforce excellence, dynamism and creativity in European research" Organisations' share of scientific articles in top 10% of most highly cited (in their respective research fields)

The ERC supports the best researchers Budget 2007 – 2013 € 7.5billion 1.1 billion €/year 2014 – 2020 €13 billion 1.9 billion €/year What is ERC? The ERC supports the best researchers to do the best research. The European Commission Provides financing through the EU framework programmes Guarantees autonomy, integrity and accountability of the ERC Adopts annual work programmes as established by the Scientific Council The ERC Scientific Council 22 prominent researchers proposed by an independent identification committee and appointed by the Commission (4 years, renewable once) Establishes overall scientific strategy Ensures communication with the scientific community The ERC Executive Agency Executes annual work programme as established by the Scientific Council Implements calls for proposals and provides information and support to applicants Organises peer review evaluation Establishes and manages grant agreements Carries out communications activities 4

ERC Grant schemes Advanced Grants Starting Grants Consolidator Grants starters (2-7 years after PhD) up to € 2.0 Mio for 5 years Consolidator Grants consolidators (7-12 years after PhD) up to € 2.75 Mio for 5 years Advanced Grants track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years up to € 3.5 Mio for 5 years Synergy Grants 2 – 4 Principal Investigators up to € 15.0 Mio for 6 years Proof-of-Concept bridging gap between research - earliest stage of marketable innovation up to €150,000 for ERC grant holders

ERC evaluation - 25 panels for all areas of science Physical Mathematics Sciences Fundamental constituents of matter & Condensed matter physics Engineering Physical and analytical chemical sciences Synthetic chemistry and materials 10 panels Computer science and informatics Systems and communication engineering Products and processes engineering Universe sciences Earth system science Social Sciences & Humanities 6 panels Individuals, institutions and markets Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Environment, space and population The Human Mind Cultures and cultural production The study of the human past Life Molecular and structural biology and biochemistry Sciences Genetics, genomics, bioinformatics and systems biology Cellular and developmental biology 9 panels Physiology, pathophysiology and endocrinology Neurosciences and neural disorders Immunity and infection Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health Evolutionary, population and environmental biology Applied life sciences and biotechnology

After first seven years… │ 7

Over 40 000 proposals received

Christoforos Pissarides Over 4 000 world class researchers funded 2007 2009 2010 2010 2010 2012 2000 2005 Konstantin Novoselov Serge Haroche James Heckman Theodor Hansch 2011 2012 2012 2012   1987 2010 2010 2009 Jean-Marie Lehn Andre Geim Christoforos Pissarides Ada Yonath

Over 550 Host Institutions in 29 countries

acknowledging ERC support Over 20 000 papers acknowledging ERC support   Already over 20,000 papers acknowledging ERC support published in international, peer reviewed journals.

Lessons learned │ 12

Highly competitive

European Institutions hosting at least 30 ERC Grantees by funding Top European Institutions hosting at least 30 ERC Grantees by funding Schemes StG 2007-2013 AdG 2008-2013 First legal signatories of the grant agreement Data as of 09/09/2013

Developing a new generation of excellent scientists

ERC grants - mobility of researchers │ 16 Current host institutions; data as of 09/09/2013

ERC grants share to population share

research investment share ERC grants share to research investment share Expected value = 1,0

Success rate to applications

Looking ahead │ 20

Horizon 2020 - ERC changes and continuity Essential features maintained Independent Scientific Council with full authority over funding strategy Executive Agency with autonomous operation Scientific excellence - the sole criterion on which ERC grants are awarded Strengthening the Scientific Governance of the European Research Council Strengthening the links between the Scientific Council and the Executive Agency Merging positions of President of ERC and Secretary General Full-time President based in Brussels 3 Vice-Chairs elected from amongst the Scientific Council members Strengthening the role of Scientists in the Steering Committee of the ERCEA Strengthening the relation of the Scientific Council and the ERCEA Strengthening the links between ERC and other parts of H2020 which aim to reinforce European Science base “Bringing ERC with Marie Curie, FET and Research Infrastructures together in a single programme will enable them to operate with greater coherence and in a rationalised, simplified and more focused way”

Horizon 2020 - budget H2020 budget € 77 billion ERC budget € 13 billion FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion Co-operation (65 %) Ideas (15 %) People (9 %) Capacities (8 %) JRC non- nuclear (3 %)

Work Programme 2014 – summary of main features Three ERC frontier research grants will be available under Work Programme 2014: Starting; Consolidator; and Advanced Grants. The two streams of what was previously known as the ERC Starting Grant were divided into two separate calls under Work Programme 2013. The Scientific Council will analyse the pilot phase of the ERC Synergy Grant (calls were made under Work Programmes 2012 and 2013) before deciding on the scope and timing of future calls. There will be no call under Work Programme 2014. Extension of restrictions on applications will apply to the 2015 calls based on the outcome of the evaluation of the 2014 calls. ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant, first introduced under the revised Work Programme 2011. Indicative budget for 2015 to help the research community to plan applications.

Work Programme 2014 – call planning   Starting Grant Consolidator Advanced Proof of Concept Grant Call identifier ERC-2014-StG ERC-2014-CoG ERC-2014-AdG ERC-2014-PoC Publication date 11 December 2013 17 June 2014 Deadline(s) 25 March 2014 20 May 2014 21 October 2014 1 April 2014 1 October 2014 Budget million EUR (estimated number of grants) 485 (370) 713 (400) 450 (200) 15 (100) Planned dates to inform applicants 21 July 2014 21 November 2014 31 October 2014 15 January 2015 10 March 2015 28 April 2015 31 July 2014 13 January 2015 Indicative date for signature of grant agreements 21 March 2015 15 May 2015 28 August 2015 31 November 2014 13 May 2015

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ERC grants by host institution ERC grants are concentrated About 50 organisations host 50 % of the Grants. There are 78 Organisations which host 10 or more Grants. Together they account for 60 % of all ERC Grants. 27

ERC grants by host institution SCIMAGO Label of Research Impact Nr Institutions Nr Grantees NI > 1.75 60 995 NI equal or above world average 275 1,719 NI lower than world average 57 115 ERC grants are concentrated …. BUT competitive research funding identifies "pockets of excellence" Of the 392 Organizations hosting ERC Grantees which could be matched to SCIMAGO 2012 NB: 124 organizations hosting about 260 Grantees could not be matched in SCIMAGO 28

most cited publications worldwide Contribution to 10% most cited publications worldwide (top ERA countries) CH 18.2 IS 17.7 DK 17.5 NL 17.1 BE 15.8 US 15.3 SE 14.7 UK 14.7 AT 14.5 IE 14.4 NO 14.3 DE 13.8 FI 13.7 IL 12.9 FR 12.7 The performance of Austrian based researchers reflects Austria's generally strong scientific performance. Bibliometric studies show that Austria is one of the top performing European countries in the production of high quality scientific publications. Once again we see that it is the smaller, more research intensive countries which tend to produce the highest quality publications in Europe. On the same basis the US scores 15.3 so the five countries in the darkest colour on the map are above this level.

ERC grants to top 10% publications The absolute number of ERC grants hosted in a country correlates very closely (0.97) with the absolute number of scientific publications within the 10% most cited worldwide. ERC Grants by country of host institution: StG 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and AdG 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. Showing all host countries. "ERA" is EU27 plus AC host countries. Scientific publications within the 10% most cited worldwide from Commission Innovation Union Competitiveness Report 2011 (2007 publications Science Metrix/ Scopus -Elsevier full counting method).