The European Research Council has published the ERC project evaluator guides for the three main calls: ERC-Starting and Consolidator Grants and ERC-Advanced Grants. These documents can be useful to better understand how ERC project evaluators work. Guide-for-peer-reviewers_he-erc-adg Guide-for-peer-reviewers_he-erc-stg-cog
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ERCEA has published some clarifications on ongoing ERC projects in relation to the impact of the COVID pandemic, available at this link: https://erc.europa.eu/news/coronavirus-business-continuity-measures-erc
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Following the announcement of the delays in the publication dates of the ERC calls, a pre-publication on the ERC website of the DRAFT documents for the ERC 2021 calls is in preparation. ERC will publish these documents online by the end of January or the beginning of February. ERC intends to keep the deadlines for
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Italian researchers first in the 2020 ranking of the prestigious Consolidator Grants of the European Research Council (ERC). With 47 winning projects, the Italian researchers precede German (45), French (27), English (24) colleagues, and outdistance the Spanish, the Dutch (21) and the Irish 20. Compared to last year, the Italian winners have doubled (they were
The European Commission appointed Jean-Pierre Bourguignon as interim President of the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Bourguignon’s position, starting from July 27, will end as soon as the new President is chosen and appointed. After driving the ERC from 2014 to 2019, the reconfirmation of Jean-Pierre Bourguignon comes at a crucial time when strong leadership
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One of the greatest European success stories in the last decade is the European Research Council (ERC)<https://erc.europa.eu/>. Thanks to its focus on excellent science and bold ideas, and its independence from political intervention, ERC grants have become one of the most prestigious research grants in the world. Considering the current European debate on the next
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Only three months after the appointment as President of the ERC, Mauro Ferrari’s resignation arrived on 7 April. Ferrari entrusted its intentions and the reasons behind its decision to an open letter to the Financial Times, to which the ERC’s scientific council responded by clarifying its position with an official statement.
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The ERC’s mission and funding principles have been fully maintained by the European Union (EU) Parliament and Council during the negotiations on Horizon Europe, the successor programme to Horizon 2020. As in previous transitions between consecutive EU research and innovation framework programmes, the calendar of the calls in the initial year of Horizon Europe may
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This year the ERC received 3,271 applications – more than 5 % increase compared to the previous Starting Grants call. The highest number of applications was submitted in the domain of Physical Sciences and Engineering (1,415), followed by Social Science and Humanities (943), and Life Sciences (913). Nearly 38% of proposals were submitted by women,
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Dr. Elena Verdolini, researcher in Political Economy at the Department of Law, is one among the 408 researchers awarded with the prestigiuos European Research Council “ERC Starting Grant”, with the project entitled: “2D4D – Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization” based on the link between digitalization and decarbonization. Digital revolution: a support or an obstacle to reach our goals of reducing
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