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European Research Council FP7 IDEAS Programme The European Research Council The Promise in Computer Science Research Activities Danny Dolev Member of the ERC Scientific Council ECSS 2012 Barcelona, November 19-21 ERC EA Unit A1 Support to the Scientific Council

European Research Council The European Research Council What is ERC

European Research Council What is ERC? The ERC supports excellence in frontier research through a bottom-up, individual-based, pan-European competition Budget: € 7.5billion (2007-2013) - 1.1 billion € /year Legislation  Scientific governance: independent Scientific Council with 22 members; full authority over funding strategy  Support by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous)  Excellence as the only criterion  Support for the individual scientist – no networks! Strategy  Global peer-review  No predetermined subjects (bottom-up)  Support of frontier research in all fields of science and humanities │ 2

European Research Council FP7 budget € 50.5 billion ERC budget € 7.5 billion; Increase by € 250 M/year Capacities People (8 %) JRC non- (9 %) nuclear (3 %) Ideas Co-operation (65 %) (15 %) 1800 1500 23.4% 21.6% 1200 Million Euro 17.8% 900 15.1% 600 10.8% 7.3% 300 4% 0 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

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

European Research Council Creative freedom of the individual grantee ERC offers independence, recognition & visibility • to work on a research topic of own choice , with a team of own choice to gain true financial autonomy for 5 years • to negotiate with the host institution the best conditions of work • • to attract top team members (EU and non-EU) and collaborators to move with the grant to any place in Europe if necessary ( portability • of grants ) to attract additional funding and gain recognition; ERC is a quality • label │ 6

European Research Council ERC funding process Peer Review Evaluation Starting and Advanced Grants Panel Members are appointed by the ERC Scientific Council 25 Panels covering all fields of science, technology and  scholarship  3 sets of Panels : StG Panels, Cons Panels, AdG Panels Each Panel consists of the Panel Chair  and 10-15 Panel Members  Panel Chair oversees evaluation process for the proposals assigned to his/her panel in collaboration with the ERC staff  Evaluation criteria: Principal Investigator Research project  Intellectual capacity and creativity  Ground-breaking nature and potential impact  Commitment  Methodology │ 7

European Research Council 25 panels for all areas of science Physical Mathematics Social Sciences & Humanities Sciences Fundamental constituents of matter 6 panels & Condensed matter physics Engineering Physical and analytical chemical sciences Individuals, institutions and markets Synthetic chemistry and materials Institutions, values, beliefs and 10 panels Computer science and informatics behaviour Systems and communication engineering Environment, space and population Products and processes engineering The Human Mind Universe sciences Cultures and cultural production Earth system science 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

European Research Council More than 3,000 researchers funded more than 5 billion euro awarded of which Total number of applications Evaluated* Funded success rates** received 9.167 8.787 299 3,4 Starting Grant 2007 Starting Grant 2009 2.503 2.392 245 10,2 Starting Grant 2010 2.873 2.767 436 15,8 4.080 4.005 486 12,1 Starting Grant 2011 Starting Grant 2012*** 4.741 4.653 536 11,5 23.364 22.604 2.002 10,6 Starting Grant Advanced Grant 2008 2.167 2.034 282 13,9 1.584 1.526 245 16,1 Advanced Grant 2009 2.009 1.967 271 13,8 Advanced Grant 2010 Advanced Grant 2011 2.284 2.245 301 13,4 8.044 7.772 1.099 14,3 Advanced Grant Proof of Concept 2011 - 1&2 151 139 51 36,7 75 60 33 55,0 Proof of Concept 2012 - 1*** 226 199 84 45,8 Proof of Concept * withdrawn and ineligible proposals not taken into account │ 9 Data as of 26/09/2012 ** percentage of funded proposals in relation to evaluated proposals *** selected

European Research Council In more than 500 institutions in 27 countries ERC Starting grant 2007 – 2012 ERC Advanced grant 2008 – 2011 3101 projects have been selected, one fifth corresponding to women PIs. *) Host institution refers to the organisation with which the first grant agreement was signed │ 10

Excellence attracts excellence: European Research Council 50% of PIs in 50 institutions Country Higher-Education Institution No StG AdG Total 1 55 32 87 UK University of Cambridge 2 46 34 80 UK University of Oxford 3 38 25 63 CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne Top 4 41 19 60 UK University College London European 5 22 29 51 CH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) 6 32 17 49 IL Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institutions 7 28 20 48 UK Imperial College hosting 7 30 18 48 IL Weizmann Institute at least 24 8 23 8 31 BE University of Leuven ERC Grantees 9 18 12 30 UK University of Edinburgh 10 13 15 28 by funding UK University of Bristol 11 14 11 25 NL Leiden University Schemes 11 12 13 25 CH University of Zurich 11 10 15 25 DE University of Munich StG 2007-2012 11 16 9 25 FI University of Helsinki AdG 2008-2011 12 16 8 24 NL University of Amsterdam 12 21 3 24 IL Technion - Israel Institute of Technology First legal signatories 12 15 9 24 SE Karolinska Institute of the grant agreement 12 18 6 24 NL Radboud University Nijmegen Country Research Organisation No StG AdG Total Data as of 26/09/2012 1 114 39 153 FR National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) 2 55 29 84 DE Max Planck Society 3 28 9 37 FR National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) 4 30 6 36 FR French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission 5 19 6 25 ES Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) 6 16 8 24 FR National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic Control (INRIA)

European Research Council "Despite being a new, and thus untried instrument, ERC attracts the ERC has manifestly succeeded in attracting and funding world-class research and is playing an high calibre scientists important role in anchoring research talent." . The independent interim evaluation of FP7 5 Nobel Prize laureates funded by ERC Konstantin Serge Novoselov Haroche Theodor James Jean-Marie Nobel 2010 Nobel 2012 Hansch Heckman Lehn 2012 Prizes awarded 3 Fields Medalists Stanislav Smirnov AdG 2008 to ERC grantees currently funded Simon Donaldson AdG 2009 by ERC EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2012 Elon Lindenstrauss AdG 2010 Jiri FRIML - StG 2011 Royal Society of Edinburgh Other Prizes awarded to ERC grantees KELVIN PRIZE 2012 EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2011 – Simon BOULTON - AdG 2010 Colin McINNES - AdG 2008 FEBS|EMBO WOMEN IN SCIENCE 2011 - Carol ROBINSON - AdG 2010 LEIBNIZ PRIZE 2012 EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2010 – Jason W CHIN - StG 2007 Michael BRECHT - AdG 2008 & THE SHAW PRIZE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 2011 - Christodoulou Demetrios - AdG 2009 Joerg WRACHTRUP - AdG 2010 CRAFOORD PRIZE 2011 and EUROPEAN LATSIS PRIZE 2010 – Ilkka Hanski - AdG 2008 CNRS SILVER MEDAL 2012 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO AWARD FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE 2011 - Anne L'Huillier - AdG 2008 Paolo SAMORI - StG 2010 WOLF PRIZE 2010 – Anton ZEILINGER, David BAULCOMBE-AdG 2008, Alain ASPECT – AdG 2010 Ehrlich-Darmstaedter Prize Young 2012 MILLENIUM AWARD 2010 – Michael GRATZEL - AdG 2009 │ 12 Kathrin MAEDLER - StG 2010

European Research Council Highly competitive Average success rate 12% │ 13

European Research Council Agreement between NSF and EC An opportunity for young US-based scientists to join ERC research projects Scope: to provide opportunities for US-based scientists and engineers with NSF-funded CAREER awards and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to pursue research collaboration with European colleagues already supported through ERC grants Next steps: • ERC to contact grantees to inquire about their interest to participate in the initiative (by end November 2012) • ERC to provide list of interested grantees to NSF (by January 2013) • NSF to launch a call for expressions of interest addressed at CAREER awardees and Postdoctoral Fellows (not earlier than January 2013) │ 14

European Research Council The European Research Council Considerations on panel PE6 "Computer Science and Informatics"