Art & Build Architect / Montois Partners / credits: S. Brison Archaeology and ERC funding @ArchSci2020, European Parliament, 20 th March 2018 Efthymia Priki European Research Council Executive Agency Social Sciences & Humanities Unit
The European Research Council supports excellence in frontier research through a bottom-up, individual-based, pan-european competition. 3
Strategy Legislation ERC is. funding: it is part of H2020 the Scientific Council the ERCEA Scientific governance: independent Scientific Council with 22 members including the ERC President; full authority over funding strategy Support by the ERC Executive Agency (autonomous) Excellence as the only criterion Support for the individual scientist no networks! Global peer-review No predetermined subjects (bottom-up) Support of frontier research in all fields of science and humanities 4
ERC FUNDING SCHEMES Starting Grant 2-7 years after PhD up to 1.5M (+0.5M) for 5 years Consolidator Grant 7-12 years after PhD up to 2M (+ 0.75M) for 5 years Advanced Grant 10 year track-record of significant research achievements up to 2.5M (+1M) for 5 years Proof-of-Concept for ERC grant holders only Supporting innovative potential of ideas from ERC projects up to 150,000 for 1 year Synergy Grant Re-launched 2018 2-4 PIs at any career stage up to 10 M (+4M) for 6 years 5
2018 Call Calendar ERC calls Budget Call Opening Starting Grants ERC-2018-StG Synergy Grants ERC-2018-SyG Consolidator Grants ERC-2018-CoG Advanced Grants ERC-2018-AdG Proof of Concept ERC-2018-PoC 581 M (391 grants) 250 M (30 grants) 550 M (287 grants) 450 M (194 grants) 20 M (130 grants) Submission Deadline(s) 3 August 2017 17 October 2017 3 August 2017 14 November 2017 24 October 2017 15 February 2018 17 May 2018 30 August 2018 6 September 2017 16 January 2018 18 April 2018 11 September 2018 6
How are ERC research proposals evaluated? Excellence is the sole evaluation criterion Excellence of the Research Project Ground breaking nature Potential impact Scientific Approach Excellence of the Principal Investigator Intellectual capacity Creativity Commitment Note: Quality of the PI's institution (where they come from / where they go to) is not evaluated. 7
CONTRARY TO WHAT YOU MAY THINK.. ERC funds "frontier research", including applied research. The budget is distributed among the scientific panels as a function of demand. The panel descriptors do not represent ERC scientific priorities. The success rate is virtually flat across the eligibility window (StG, CoG). Publication record is not decisive in selection decisions. The Host Institution is not an evaluation criterion. 8
PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON.. Multi- or inter-disciplinary proposals which cross boundaries between different fields of research, or Pioneering proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research, or Proposals introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions. 9
2018 Panel Structure Each panel: Panel Chair and 12-16 Panel Members 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 Neuroscience 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 Physical Sciences & Engineering PE1 Mathematics PE2 Fundamental Constituents of Matter PE3 Condensed Matter Physics PE4 Physical & Analytical Chemical Sciences PE5 Synthetic Chemistry and Materials PE6 Computer Science and Informatics PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering PE8 Products and Processes Engineering PE9 Universe Sciences PE10 Earth System Science 10
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H2020 - Starting Grant 2014 BIRTH: Births, mothers and babies: prehistoric fertility in the Balkans between 10000 5000 BC KEY CONCEPTS 12
BIRTH: Project Fact Sheet PI: Prof. Sofija Stefanovic HI: BioSense Institute in Novi Sad, Serbia The project incorporates a holistic approach in understanding fertility and skeletal, nutritive and cultural factors influencing birth during the Early- Middle Holocene (10000-5000 BC) in the Central Balkans. Team: 3 senior researchers, 5 post-docs, and an archaeology student. Methods: Human osteometrics, geometric morphometrics, isotope & elemental analysis, archaeozoological and archaeobotanical analysis, 14C dating, agent based modelling, 3D modelling of artefacts. Collaboration with over 20 museums and institutions across Europe. Ground-breaking in creating a completely novel scientific framework for research on ancient fertility. Research outputs: 4 publications; paper and poster presentations; exhibition in Serbia (March to April 2017): NEW AGE: the lives of mothers and babies in the Balkan Neolithic (on the occasion of ERC's 10 th year anniversary). Impact: High visibility project in the media. Engagement both with the general public (educational initiatives) and the academic community. Learn more: http://new.ercbirth.com/ 13
FP7 - Synergy grant 2012 NEXUS1492: New World Encounters in a Globalising World KEY CONCEPTS 14
NEXUS1492: Project Fact Sheet Trans-disciplinary & transnational synergy of 4 PIs & 3 Host Institutions Prof. dr. Corinne Lisette Hofman (University of Leiden) Prof. dr. Gareth R. Davies (VU University Amsterdam) Prof. dr. Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz) Prof. Willem Willems (deceased) The project investigates the impacts of colonial encounters in the Caribbean, and the intercultural Amerindian-European-African dynamics at multiple temporal and spatial scales across the historical divide of 1492. Team: 38 scholars and researchers (incl. postdocs and PhD students) from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, bioarchaeology, human genetics, physical geography, computer sciences, biogeochemistry, geochemistry, and heritage and museum studies. Integration of researchers from the Caribbean and collaboration with other projects: HERA Carib and NWO Island Networks. Methods: biomicrobe and adna analysis, isotope geochemistry, archaeometry, artefact analysis, network analysis. Inclusion of heritage management in the work plan. Research outputs: 56 peer-reviewed publications; numerous conference presentations; fieldwork reports. Impact: High visibility project in the media (incl. film documentaries). Engagement with the general public (educational initiatives, regional heritage programmes). Heritage preservation. Learn more: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/nexus1492 15 15
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Thank you! Efthymia.PRIKI@ec.europa.eu 17