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Proposals Submitted to the ERC
The ERC has received 26.666 proposals: 18.623 Starting Grant and 8.043 Advanced Grant submissions.
The Starting funding scheme has proven more successful than the Advanced Grant scheme in attracting
applications: 70% and 30% respectively out of the total number of ERC proposals submitted. Chart 1 depicts the
evolution in number of proposals submitted to the ERC calls.
The sharp decline of 73% in the number of applications between the first and the second call of the Starting Grant
scheme might be partly explained by the change in application procedures (from two-stage to single-stage, full-
proposal submission), the establishment of a set of benchmarks related to the profile of the applicant as well as
the lower success rate of the first Starting Grant call. On the other side, the novelty of the IDEAS programme may
explain the extremely large number of applications (9167) in the first ERC call that represents approximately 50%
of the proposals submitted to the Starting Grant scheme and one third of the ERC Grant applications. From 2010,
there is an increasing trend in the submissions to the Starting Grant scheme with an increase of applications for
the ERC-2010-StG and ERC-2011-StG call compared to the previous year: 15% and 42% respectively.
The Advanced Grant scheme follows the same pattern in the number of applicants per call with a drop of sub-
missions between the first and second ERC Advanced Grant call of 27% and an increase of applicants in the
third and the fourth calls of 27% & 14% respectively. However it should be noted that in the Advanced funding
scheme, more researchers applied to the fourth than to the first call, whereas in the Starting Grant scheme, the
number of applications for the fourth call (ERC-2011-StG) represents less than half of the submissions made for
its first call (ERC-2007-StG).
ERC Starting
Grant Calls
ERC Advanced
Grant Calls
9167
(49%)
2503
(14%)
2873
(15%)
4080
(22%)
2167
(27%)
158
(20%)
2009
(25%)
2284
(28%)
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Chart 1
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Number (& %) of proposals submitted per ERC call
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