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Prof. Donald B. Dingwell ERC Secretary General

Learn about the European Research Council (ERC) and how it supports excellence in frontier research through a global competition. Discover the success stories of ERC grantees and the benefits of the ERC program. Find out about collaborations between NSF and ERC to provide research opportunities for US-based scientists.

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Prof. Donald B. Dingwell ERC Secretary General

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  1. Prof. Donald B. DingwellERC Secretary General ''Destination Europe'' conference, San Francisco, 6-7 December 2012

  2. Whatis ERC? ERC supports excellence in frontierresearch through a bottom-up, individual-based, global competition Budget: €7.5 billion (2007-2013)- 1.1 billion € /year Motivation: making Europe more attractive for global scientific talent Principles: - Excellence - Bottom-up/all fields - Individuals Structure - Council - Agency Averagesuccess rate: 12% Catch: ≥50% of time in Europe

  3. ERC Grantee StG 2007 ERC Grantee AdG 2011 Konstantin Novoselov Nobel 2010 Jean-Marie Lehn ERC Grantee AdG 2010 ERC Grantee AdG 2010 Theodor Hansch James Heckman ERC success stories ERC Grantee AdG 2009 5 Nobel Prize laureates funded by ERC Serge Haroche Nobel 2012 2012 Prizes awarded to ERC grantees EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2012 Jiri FRIML - StG 2011 Royal Society of Edinburgh KELVIN PRIZE 2012 Colin McINNES - AdG 2008 LEIBNIZ PRIZE 2012 Michael BRECHT - AdG 2008 & Joerg WRACHTRUP - AdG 2010 CNRS SILVER MEDAL 2012 Paolo SAMORI - StG 2010 Ehrlich-Darmstaedter Prize Young 2012 Kathrin MAEDLER - StG 2010 3 Fields Medalists currently funded by ERC Stanislav SmirnovAdG 2008 Simon DonaldsonAdG 2009 Elon LindenstraussAdG 2010 Other Prizes awarded to ERC grantees EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2011 – Simon BOULTON - AdG 2010 FEBS|EMBO WOMEN IN SCIENCE 2011 - Carol ROBINSON - AdG 2010 EMBO GOLD MEDAL 2010 – Jason W CHIN - StG 2007 THE SHAW PRIZE IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES 2011 - Christodoulou Demetrios - AdG 2009 CRAFOORD PRIZE 2011 and EUROPEAN LATSIS PRIZE 2010 – Ilkka Hanski - AdG 2008 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO AWARD FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE 2011 - Anne L'Huillier - AdG 2008 WOLF PRIZE 2010 – Anton ZEILINGER, David BAULCOMBE-AdG 2008, Alain ASPECT–AdG 2010 MILLENIUM AWARD 2010 – Michael GRATZEL - AdG 2009 │ 3

  4. Creative freedom of the individual grantee: ERC offers • Independence • research topic of own choice • financial autonomy • portability of grants • Visibility • prestige Flexibility • negotiate with the host • attract top team members • Attractive features for researchers from outside Europe • Additional “start-up” funding for scientists moving to Europe • Grantee can keep affiliation with home institute outside Europe • Team members can be based outside Europe

  5. Attracting excellent researchers Countries with at least 50 foreign members of staff

  6. Composition of ERC team EU: 69% Ass. Countries: 11% non-ERA: 17% unknown: 3% Most non-ERA from China, US, India, and Russia 50% of non-ERA ''attracted'' to Europe 661 non-ERA researchers among the 3,845 team members Breakdown by nationality (97) (sample of 636 Starting and Advanced projects)

  7. Gender distributionDependent on PI gender and project domain Female PIs in the sample* LS: 22% PE: 15% SH: 32% *) similar for all grants

  8. Agreement between NSF and EC 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 • Signed on 13 July 2012 at ESOF in Dublin by NSF Director Dr.Subra Suresh and the European Commissioner for RTD MáireGeoghegan-Quinn • Implementation • Single and long-term (6-12 months) or multiple short-term visits (e.g. for joint experiments) from researchers based in the U.S., and preselected by the NSF, to ERC-funded projects. • NSF to launch a call for expressions of interestaddressed at CAREER awardees and Postdoctoral Fellows(January2013) • Time spent in Europe additional to the NSF-fundedpostdocfellowship

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