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The ERC has awarded 24 grants in Greece: 14 to ERC Starting grantees and 10 to ERC Advanced grantees (see
Chart 7). 15 and 9 proposals have been funded in the Physical Sciences and Life Sciences domains respectively
(see Chart 9). Unfortunately, despite the great heritage of Greece in Social sciences and Humanities, no propos-
al has been funded so far in the SH domain. A list of successful ERC Greek projects is presented in Table 4.
Only one Greek project is funded for 4 years whereas 22 last for five years. It should be noted that although the
MEDIGRA project was initially funded for five years, due to the unfortunate death of the Principal Investigator (PI),
Professor Vardoulakis, a project supervisor was nominated and the budget as well as the duration of the grant
were significantly reduced (see Table 4).
In the Life Sciences, an average Greek grant size is about 1,4 Mio
€
for a Starting Grant and 2,3 Mio
€
for an
Advanced Grant. In the Physical Sciences and Engineering, the average for a Starting Grant is 1,0 Mio
€
, and 2,2
Mio
€
for an Advanced Grant (grants for five years have only been considered)
There is a significant influence of the country’s size (in terms of population and number of researchers) and R&D
expenditure on the distribution of grants among countries. In this sense, Greece is ranked sixteenth among EU
& Associated Countries when considering the number of funded proposals hosted by Greek Host Institutions.
However, Greece occupies 12
th
position in terms of nationality of the Principal Investigators
(15)
.
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Chart 14
:
Number (& %) of proposals funded per ERC call & funding scheme
ERC identifier call
ERC Starting
Grant Calls
ERC Advanced
Grant Calls
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
ERC-2007-StG ERC-2009-StG ERC-2010-StG ERC-2011-StG
ERC-2008-AdG ERC-2009-AdG ERC-2010-AdG ERC-2011-AdG
299
(20%)
245
(17%)
436
(30%)
282
(26%)
245
(22%)
271
(25%)
487
(33%)
301
(a)
(27%)
(a)
301 refers to the number of selected proposals (not yet funded).
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ERC CALLS: Information & Statistics