ERC Proposals Funded
To date, the ERC has funded 2.566 top researchers working in about 470 different institutions across Europe:
1.467 (57%) are Starting grantees whereas 1.099 (43%) are Advanced grantees. More than 1.100 projects (45%
of the total) have been funded in the Physical Sciences and Engineering, about 900 (36%) in the Life Sciences
and more than 450 (19%) in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
The ERC Grant holders list displays 53 nationalities, as specified at the time of the Grant Agreement. Among
these nationalities, 20 are outside the European Research Area (ERA). US nationals with 75 grantees represent
47% of all non-ERA grantees (i.e. non-EU and non-Associated Countries). However most of the non-ERA grant-
ees (89%) were already resident in an ERA country at the time of their application.
The majority of the Starting Grant holders of the first four calls are hosted by institutions located in the EU, while
12% have a host institution in an FP7 Associated Country. For the first four Advanced Grant calls, the share of
host institutions from Associated Countries is significantly higher (16%).
Typically, projects are funded for five years. Projects of this duration account for 90% of all funded projects, while
6% of projects are funded for 4 years and 2% for 3 years.
An average grant size in the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences & Engineering domain is about 1.4 Mio
€
and
2.2 Mio
€
in the Starting and Advanced funding schemes respectively. The corresponding figures for Social Sci-
ences and Humanities are 1 Mio
€
and 1.9 Mio
€
(14)
.
Chart 14 depicts the evolution in the number of proposals funded by the ERC that is in line with the evolution of
the budget dedicated to the ERC calls and funding schemes (see Chart 11). In this sense, there is a 125% and
32% budget rise between the second and fourth call of the Starting and Advanced funding scheme respectively
which correspond to a 98% and 20% increase in the number of proposals funded.
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Chart 13
:
Amount in Mio
€
for Greece per ERC funding scheme & domain
PE Domain
LS Domain
SH Domain
8,2
13,2
21,4
16,9
8,7
20,1
6,9
37
15,6
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Greek ERC
Starting Grants
Greek ERC
Advanced Grants
Greek ERC
Grants
24
the
case of
GREECE
5
years of
Excellence in
the European
Research Area
2007-2011