FP7 ERC 2010 Advanced Grant Call Description

1. FP7 ERC 2010 Advanced Grant Call Description

2. ERC Advanced Grant • Flexible grants for ground-breaking, high-risk/high-gain research that opens new opportunities and directions including those of a multi- and inter-disciplinary nature • Complement to the ERC Starting Grants, targeting researchers who are already established independent research leaders • for up to 5 years, i.e. normally up to ~2,500,000 Euro per grant (may go up to ~3.5 MEuro in specific cases) • ~ ⅔ of ERC annual budget, annual calls (590 MEuro in 2010)

3. ERC Grants - Who can apply ? • Individual Research Teams: • headed by a single “Principal Investigator” (team leader) • of any nationality • if necessary, including additional team members. • PI has the freedom to choose the research topic • PI has the power to assemble his/her research team (including “co-Investigators”) meeting the needs of the project. • Teams can be of national or trans-national character • Hosting institution located in an EU member state or associated country

4. Benchmarks of 10 year “track record” • Senior author publications in major peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary scientific journals and/or in the leading peer-reviewed journals of their respective research fields • Monographs and any translations of monographs (if applicable). • Granted patents (if applicable) • Invited presentations intopeer-reviewed, internationally established conferences and/or international advanced schools (if applicable) • Expeditions that the applicant has led (if applicable) • International conferences in the field of the applicant that have been organised (member of the steering and/or organising committee) by him/her (if applicable) • InternationalPrizes/Awards/Academy memberships (if applicable)

5. Profile of the ERC Advanced Grant Applicant • Normally 10 publications as senior authorin majorinternational peer-reviewedmultidisciplinary scientific journals, and/or in the leading international peer-reviewedjournals and peer-reviewed conferences proceedings of their respective field. • Normally 3 major research monographs, of which at least one is translated into anotherlanguage Additionally: • Normally 5 granted patents • Normally 10 invited presentations in well-established internationally organisedconferences and advanced schools • Normally 3 research expeditions led by the applicant • Normally 3 well-established international conferences or congresses where the applicantwas involved in their organisation as a member of the steering and/or organisingcommittee • International recognition through scientific prizes/awards or membership in wellregardedAcademies

6. Indicators of “leadership profile” • Content and impact of the major scientific or scholarly contributions of the applicant to his or her own research field and/or neighbouring research fields and, if applicable, their wider societal impact; • The international recognition and diffusion that these major contributions have received from others (publications or appropriate equivalents/additional funding/ students/international prizes and awards/ institution-building/other); • Ability to productively change research fields and/or to establish new interdisciplinary approaches

7. ERC Advanced Grant 2010Re-application restrictions • Only one ERC grant managed by a PI and/or a Co-Investigator can be active at anytime. • No PI and/or a Co-Investigator may be associated with more than one application tothe ERC during the same year. • • No Principal Investigator who has submitted an eligible proposal to an AdvancedGrant call (ERC-2010-AdG) may apply to the following Advanced Grant call (ERC-2011-AdG), unless his/her proposal was evaluated above the quality threshold duringthe 2nd step but not funded due to insufficient available budget. • • A Principal Investigator or a Co-Investigator associated with an eligible proposal foran ERC Advanced Grant to either of the first two Advanced Grant calls (ERC-2008-AdG or ERC-2009-AdG) may not apply for the third ERC Advanced Grant call (ERC-2010-AdG) unless the eligible proposal to the first or second call has met the qualitythreshold on both evaluation criteria - Principal Investigator, Research Project - at theend of step 1 of the evaluation.

8. ERC Advanced Grant • 1-stage submission / 2-step evaluation • Proposals must contain: • A: Online (through EPSS) • B1: Scientific leadership profile + CV + 10 year track record + extended synopsis (and “co-investigator(s), if necessary) (max 11 pages) • B2: Scientific proposal (State of the art and objectives, Methodology, Resources (incl. project costs), Ethical Issues, Research Environment (max 15 pages) • Evaluation: • 1st step: B1 • 2nd step: Evaluation of Full Proposal (with referees, no interview)

9. ERC Advanced Grant -Submission of Proposals • Early registration(via EPSS) • To provide ERC with indication on number & area of proposals • One-stage electronic submission (only via EPSS) • Full Proposal • Including elements that will be evaluated during the first step • Don’t forget • Ideas National Contact Point support • Pre-evaluation support (applicable 3 weekes before the deadline)

10. Evaluation CriteriaScientific Excellence is the sole Criterion • Quality of Principal Investigator • Quality of research output/track-record • Intellectual capacity and creativity • Quality of research project • Potential Impact • Methodology • High-gain/High-risk balance • Research Environment and Resources • Referees and panels evaluate and score criteria 1 and 2 numerically, which will result in the ranking of the proposals • Criteria 3 will be considered (step 2) on a "pass/fail" basis and commented but not scored

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