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Chart 17
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ERC Grants in Greece
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ERC Grants in Greece
per type of Host Institution & domain
Mapping of Excellence Based on the Greek
Organisations Hosting ERC Grants & ERC Reviewers
ERC competitions are primarily competitions among individual outstanding researchers that submit a proposal
on a cutting-edge scientific topic of their choice and choose their research environment. However the host insti-
tutions are another important factor in the ERC Grants since they compete not only for the best researchers but
also for funds to increase their research budget and perform excellent frontier research.
The vast majority of ERC Grants are implemented in universities and public research organisations of EU and
associated countries. A very small percentage of the ERC applications, about 1%, concerns projects that are
hosted by a private organisation and only 11 ERC Grants are currently being implemented in private research
organisations or in industry, with a success rate of about 14%.
In Greece, there are no ERC Grants hosted by private organisations. Twelve of the Greek ERC Grants are imple-
mented in universities whereas the other 12 are hosted by public research organisations. It should be noted that
6 out of the 7 ERC grantees that display a dual affiliation to a Greek research organisation and university have
selected the research organisation to implement their ERC project (see Table 4). Chart 17 depicts the distribu-
tion of Greek ERC Grants per type of Host Institution and funding scheme whereas chart 18 shows the number
of Greek ERC Grants per type of HI and domain of application. While 2/3 of the Greek ERC Grants submitted to
the Life Sciences domain (6) are implemented in Greek research organisations, more than half of the Greek ERC
grantees applying to the Physical Sciences and Engineering domain (9) are hosted in Greek universities.
In the first eight completed ERC calls, 2.566 Grant Agreements were signed with about 470 different Host Insti-
tutions which indicated a strong concentration of ERC funded projects in a relatively small number of research
institutions. Approximately 50% of all grants are implemented in about 50 organisations which host 12 ERC
funded Principal Investigators (PIs) or more. New International ranking lists of European research institutions
have been developed on the basis of ERC success (i.e on the number of ERC Grants hosted). They are used to
assess and benchmark the performance of European research institutions and can be useful tools for a variety
of stakeholders ranging from students, to policy makers or industry/business partners. Table 5 depicts a list of
organisations hosting at least 15 ERC PIs by funding scheme
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MAPPING OF EXCELLENCE in the greek research and innovation landscape