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Chart 12
:
Amount in Mio
€
for Greece per ERC call and (& % of ERC budget for Greece)
Chart 11 shows the budget per ERC Grant call as well as the budget trend in both ERC Grant schemes. In this
sense, there has been a 3% and 7% decrease (compared to the first calls) in the budget of the second Starting
and Advanced Grant calls, respectively. However, from 2010, there is a rise in the budget calls of both funding
schemes, which is 4 times higher in the Starting than in the Advanced Grant scheme. Indeed, there is a 125%
and 32% increase between the second and fourth call budgets of the Starting and Advanced funding scheme,
respectively. In the first two calls, the Starting Grant scheme had approximately two thirds of the budget of the
Advanced funding scheme. However in the 2010 ERC Work Programme both funding schemes had a similar
budget and from 2011 the Starting Grant calls displayed a slightly bigger budget than the Advanced Grant calls
(1,5% & 7% increase in the third and fourth calls of both funding schemes, respectively). The significant budg-
etary strengthening of the Starting Grant scheme is in compliance with the new strategy of the ERC Scientific
Council to target and support the next generation of research leaders in Europe.
The ERC funds top researchers engaged in pioneering research at the frontier of knowledge in their field. To
date, some 4,2 billion
€
have been granted to ground-breaking excellent projects in frontier research. 1,9 billion
€
in Physical Sciences and Engineering, 1,6 billion
€
in Life Sciences and about 700 Mio
€
in Social Sciences
and Humanities.
The ERC has invested a total of 37 Mio
€
(0,9% of ERC budget) in frontier research in Greece in excellent projects
designed around fundamental research or around well-defined technological challenges. Chart 12 shows the
distribution of ERC funds dedicated to Greece per call. In both funding schemes there has been a decrease from
the 1
st
to the 2
nd
call but from 2009 there is a positive trend with a maximum peak reached in the last completed
Starting and Advanced calls (ERC-2011-StG & ERC-2011-AdG). 16,9 Mio
€
(46% of Greek budget) have been
granted to emerging top researchers and 20,1 Mio
€
(54%) to well-established leaders in their field (see Chart
13). In terms of subject domains, 21,4 Mio
€
went to the Physical Sciences and Engineering and 15,6 Mio
€
to
the Life Sciences. Unfortunately, Greece - the country with such a strong heritage in social sciences and humani-
ties - has not received any funding for projects in the SH domain (see Chart 13).
ERC Starting
Grant Calls
ERC Advanced
Grant Calls
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