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ERC and Brazil

May 2019

Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON

ERC President

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Overview of the ERC

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A Radical Step Forward

• Created by the EU in 2007

Mission: To raise the level, dynamism and creativity of the European

research & innovation landscape:

• Supporting the emergence of leaders in all domains of science

• Improving the career prospects of early stage researchers

• Providing a benchmark for all of Europe’s national research

authorities and individual institutions

• Support to individual scientists – no networks!

• Global peer-review

• No predetermined subjects (bottom-up)

• Support to frontier research in all fields of science and humanities

The ERC supports excellence in frontier research through

bottom-up, individual-based, pan-European competition.

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• Scientific governance: independent Scientific Council

• Full authority over funding strategy and evaluation

• Support by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous)

• Excellence as the only criterion

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The European Commission• Provides financing through the EU framework programmes• Guarantees autonomy of the ERC• Assures the integrity and accountability of the ERC• Adopts annual work programmes as established by

the Scientific Council

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• Administers scientific and financial aspects and follow-up of grant agreements

• Carries out communications activities and ensures information dissemination to ERC stakeholders

The ERC Scientific Council• 21 prominent researchers proposed by an independent identification committee

• President appointed following recommendation of an independent search committee

• Appointed by the Commission (4 years, renewable once)

• Establishes overall scientific strategy; annual work programmes (incl. calls for proposals, evaluation criteria); peer review methodology; selection and accreditation of experts

• Controls quality of operations and management• Ensures communication with the scientific community

The ERC Structure

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The Scientific Council Today

• Prof. Manuel ARELLANO (Economics)

• Prof. Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON (Mathematics), ERC President

• Prof. Paola BOVOLENTA (Neurobiology)

• Prof. Margaret BUCKINGHAM (Biology)

• Prof. Eveline CRONE (Psychology)

• Prof. Ben L. FERINGA (Organic Chemistry)

• Prof. Andrzej JAJSZCZYK (Electronics and Communication Engineering)

• Prof. Tomas JUNGWIRTH (Condensed Matter Physics)

• Prof. Michael KRAMER (Astrophysics)

• Prof. Kurt MEHLHORN (Computer Science)

• Prof. Barbara ROMANOWICZ (Geophysics)

• Prof. Martin STOKHOF (Philosophy), ERC Vice-President

• Prof. Giulio SUPERTI-FURGA (Medical Systems Biology)

• Prof. Nektarios TAVERNARAKIS (Molecular Systems Biology)

• Prof. Janet THORNTON (Bioinformatics and Structural Biology), ERC Vice-President

• Prof. Isabelle VERNOS (Molecular and Cell Biology)

• Prof. Lene VESTERGAARD HAU (Nanophysics)

• Prof. Michel WIEVIORKA (Sociology)

• Prof. Fabio ZWIRNER (Theoretical and High-Energy Physics), ERC Vice-President

Starting Grants

starters

(2-7 years after PhD)

up to 1.5 M€

for 5 years

Advanced Grants track-record of

significant research

achievements in the

last 10 years

up to 2.5 M€

for 5 years

Synergy Grants (re-launched 2018)

2 – 4 Principal Investigators

up to 10 M€ for 6 years

Proof-of-Concept bridging gap between research - earliest

stage of marketable innovation

up to 150 k€ for ERC grant holders

Funding Mechanisms

Consolidator Grants

consolidators

(7-12 years after PhD)

up to 2 M€

for 5 years

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ERC Budget

Horizon2020 budget distribution ERC budget per year

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Evaluation Panel Structure (WP2019)

Physical Sciences & Engineering

PE1 Mathematics

PE2 Fundamental Constituents of Matter

PE3 Condensed Matter Physics

PE4 Physical and Analytical Chemical Sciences

PE5 Synthetic Chemistry and Materials

PE6 Computer Science and Informatics

PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering

PE8 Products and Process Engineering

PE9 Universe Sciences

PE10 Earth System Science

Life Sciences

LS1 Molecular Biology, Biochemistry,

Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

LS2 Genetics, ‘Omics’, Bioinformatics and

Systems Biology

LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology

LS4 Physiology, Pathophysiology and

Endocrinology

LS5 Neurosciences and Neural Disorders

LS6 Immunity and Infection

LS7 Applied Medical Technologies,

Diagnostics, Therapies and Public Health

LS8 Ecology, Evolution and Environmental

Biology

LS9 Applied Life Sciences, Biotechnology and

Molecular and Biosystems Engineering

Social Sciences and Humanities

SH1 Individuals, Markets and Organisations

SH2 Institutions, Values, Environment and Space

SH3 The Social World, Diversity, Population

SH4 The Human Mind and Its Complexity

SH5 Cultures and Cultural Production

SH6 The Study of the Human Past

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ERC Delivers

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Beyond 10 Years - a Success Story

8,500

60,000

€ 13 billion

90,000

> 750

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Priority to Young Scientists

Two-thirds of ERC grants to early-stage Principal Investigators.

+ 50 000 PhD and post-doc researchers working in ERC teams.

The Nobel Prize in Economics 2014 was awarded to Jean TIROLE

"for his analysis of market power and regulation".

May-Britt

MOSER

Nobel 2014

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Highest Prizes to ERC Grantees

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 awarded to May-Britt MOSER and Edvard MOSER, together with John O'KEEFE, "for their discoveries of cells constituting a positioning system in the brain".

Jean

TIROLE

Nobel 2014

Konstantin

NOVOSELOV

Nobel 2010

Edvard

MOSER

Nobel 2014

Bernard

FERINGA

Nobel 2016

Martin HAIRER Alessio FIGALLI

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Artur AVILA

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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded to Bernard L. FERINGA "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines". jointly with Jean-Pierre SAUVAGEand Sir J. Fraser STODDART

Stanislas

SMIRNOV

Fields Medals: in 2010 Stanislav SMIRNOV for ”the conformal invariance of the percolation model”; in 2014 Artur AVILA and Martin HAIRER

”for their work in stochastic singularities and dynamical systems and”, and in 2018 to Alessio FIGALLI “for his work on Calculus of Variations”

Serge

HAROCHE

Nobel 2012

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Attracting Researchers to Europe

Nationality of ERC project team members (PIs not included)

Analysis of 1,901 Starting and Advanced Grants

In all ERC grants+ 10,000 non-ERA team members

most from China, US, India, and Russia

EU: 71% Associated Countries: 10% of all

team membersnon-EU/AC: 17% of all members

unknown: 2%

Ex-post Evaluation of ERC Projects

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International Participation to ERC

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• USA, National Science Foundation (NSF)• Republic of Korea, National Research Foundation (NRF)• Argentina, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCYT)• China, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)• Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Japan Science and

Technology Agency (JST)• South Africa, National Research Foundation (NRF)• Mexico, Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT)• Brazil, Brazilian National Council of the State funding agencies (CONFAP)• Canada, Canadian Tri-Agency Institutional Programmes Secretariat (TIPS)• India, Scientific Engineering Research Board (SERB)• Australia, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Promotes opportunity for non-European researchers supported by foreignagencies to visit ERC research teams

https://erc.europa.eu/managing-your-project/set-and-develop-your-team

Implementing Arrangements

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ERC

launches a call for expression of interest

Principal Investigator

expresses interest in hosting one or more scientists

supported by a non-ERAfunding agency

ERC

sends the list of interested PIs to the non-ERA based

funding agencies

Non-ERA based funding agency

launches a call for proposals to their eligible scientists

Non-ERA based scientist

contacts the Principal Investigators to seek

agreement on a possible research visit

Principal Investigator

accepts or not the research visit; If accepted, the Principal

Investigator and the Host Institution provide a letter of

support

Non-ERA based funding agency

evaluates the proposals and funds the successful ones

Non-ERA based scientist

plans an executes the research visit in agreement

with the Principal Investigator

IA: structure and Process

Action taken by…

ERC

ERC grantee

Funding agency abroad

Visiting scientist

ERC Grantees Participation 2012-2018

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Country 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total

USA 789 676 372 507 380 312 423 3459

Korea PI 492 351 358 319 256 341 2117

China 402 293 249 332 1276

Japan JSPS 453 345 287 377 1462

Argentina 378 296 245 322 1241

South Africa 358 279 240 312 1189

Brazil 303 249 329 881

Mexico 294 242 316 852

Canada 353 289 392 1034

India Early 224 301 525

Japan JST 370 370

Australia 369 369

Korea PhD 325 325

India PhD 276 276

Average 789 584 362 409 318 259 342

Number of ERC grantees expressed interest to host non-European researchers

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Country 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017* Total

India 0

Canada 3 3 6

Mexico 5 5

Brazil 12 22 34

Argentina 5 5 10

China 11 12 7 30

Japan (JSPS) 3 13 2 18

South Africa 5 2 1 8

Korea 31 28 20 30 35 144

USA 12 23 11 46

Total 12 54 28 55 82 70 301

Number of non-EU research visitors by year and by country

Visits to ERC projects 2012-2017

* Preliminary data for 2017

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Since 2016 881 ERC grantees (303 under the 2016 call, 249 under the 2017

and 329 under 2018) expressed their interest in temporarily hosting a Brazilian

researcher in their team

ERC grantees from all grant schemes and scientific domains were

represented:

181 Physical Sciences and Engineering

82 Life Sciences

65 Social Sciences and Humanities

1 Synergy

34 CONFAP grantees visited ERC projects since 2016

Implementing Arrangement ERC-CONFAP

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Destination Countries CONFAP Grantees

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Destination countries of 34 CONFAP visitors from2016-2017 (by scientific domain)

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Implementing Arrangements

October 2019 – Next call for Expression of Interest for ERC PIs

Support and information:

erc-implementing-arrangements@ec.europa.eu

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Attracting Brilliant Minds

• Additional funding to cover 'start-up' costs for scientists moving to

Europe (up to €500 000 for Starting grantees, up to €750 000 for

Consolidator grantees and up to € 1 000 000 for Advanced grantees).

• Dual affiliation is also possible: ERC grantees are required to spend

only 50% of their time in Europe

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ERC Grantees with Nationality outside ERA

* FP7 only: Associated Country under H2020

Non-EU/AC Principal

Investigators

Starting and

Consolidator

grants

Advanced

grantsTotal grants

USA181 115 296

Canada70 14 84

Russia43 9 52

India49 3 52

Australia41 8 49

China37 1 38

Japan25 7 32

New Zealand13 6 19

Argentina17 1 18

Korea8 1 9

Brazil8 1 9

Other63 9 72

Total555 175 730

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Brazilian Researchers in ERC Calls

There are currently an estimated (approx.) 300 team members with

Brazilian nationality engaged in ERC projects.

FundedEvaluated

9 Brazilian Principal Investigators based in ERA host institutions

LS PE SH Grand Total

StG 1 3 2 6

CoG 2 2

AdG 1 1

Grand Total 1 6 2 9

LS PE SH Grand Total

StG 27 42 22 91

CoG 8 15 2 25

AdG 3 12 4 19

Grand Total 38 69 28 135

2007-2018

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Synergy Goes International

"The Synergy Grant Group must be made up of a minimum of two

and a maximum of four Principal Investigators. One of the

Principal Investigators must be designated as the Corresponding

Principal Investigator. At any one time, one Principal Investigator

per Synergy Grant Group except the Corresponding one can be

hosted or engaged by an institution outside of the EU or

Associated Countries".

ERC Work Programme 2019

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