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Chart 6 and chart 8 show the number of Greek proposals evaluated that have reached the second-stage of
evaluation, where the full proposal is taken into consideration. Of the 720 proposals submitted by Greek organi-
sations, 65 were successful in stage one of the evaluation procedure, with a success rate of about 10% (average
success rate of 13%). 32 of the 518 projects submitted to the Starting Grant scheme went to stage two of the
ERC peer review, leading to a first-stage success rate of about 6% (average success rate of 10%). 33 of the 202
applications for the Advanced funding scheme reached full proposal evaluation, leading to a significantly higher
first-stage success rate of about 16% (average success rate of 17%).
Taking into consideration the proposals’ domain, 43 out of 406 projects in Physical Sciences and Engineering
(PE) reached the second-stage evaluation with a first-stage success rate of 11% (first-stage average success
rate of 15%). 20 out 235 proposals submitted to the Life Sciences (LS) domain reached full-proposal evaluation,
culminating in a success rate of about 9% (first-stage average success rate of 5%). Only 2 proposals of the 79
projects submitted in the Social Sciences and Humanities’ domain (SH) reached the second stage of the ERC
peer-review evaluation with a very low first-stage success rate of about 3% (first-stage average success rate of
2%). These results are even more striking if the ERC funding scheme is considered. In this sense, both propos-
als that reached the second-stage of evaluation were submitted to the Starting funding scheme, leading to the
distressing fact that none of the Greek ERC Advanced applications to the SH domain has so far reached full-
proposal evaluation.
Chart 7 and chart 9 depict the number of Greek proposals that have been selected for funding and the success
rate per funding scheme and domain. In this sense, Greek proposals submitted in the Life Sciences and the
Physical Sciences & Engineering domain display a similar average success rate of about 6% and 5% respec-
tively. If the funding scheme is also taken into consideration, the average success rate of the Greek applications
submitted for the Advanced Grant competition is higher in the PE than in the LS domain (6% and 4% respec-
tively) whereas in the Starting Grant competition the success rate is lower in the PE than in the LS domain (4%
versus 8%).
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Chart 8
:
Number (& 1
st
-stage average success rate)
of Greek proposals reaching 2
nd
-stage evaluation
per domain
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Chart 9
:
Number (& average success
rate) of Greek proposals funded per
domain
Physical Sciences &
Engineering (PE) domain
Life Sciences (LS) domain
Social Sciences &
Humanities (SH) domain
0
10
20
30
40
50
ERC-StG Calls ERC-AdG Calls ERC Calls
20
(11,3)
23
(18,8)
43
(15)
10
(10)
10
(19,3)
20
(14,6)
2
(3,6)
0
12%
2
(1,8)
0
3
6
9
12
15
18
8
(4,1)
7
(5,7)
15
(4,9)
6
(7,5)
3
(3,8)
9
(5,7)
0
0
0
ERC-StG Calls
ERC-AdG Calls
ERC Calls
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