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Chart 25
:
Share of Greek ERC grantees in Greece & abroad
The ERC website
(1)
includes detailed statistics of each ERC completed call, including detailed analysis of mobil-
ity patterns and flows of researchers between countries, and provides an overall picture of the relative attractive-
ness of national research systems in Europe based on the results of ERC calls. However, these data should not
be over-interpreted since many factors influence the mobility of researchers and not only the attractiveness of
national research systems. In the case of Greece, the deep crisis that the country is going through is another
relevant aspect that has to be taken into consideration.
Patterns of Mobility Based on ERC Statistics
Generally, most of the ERC Grant holders are nationals of the country of their host institution. This is the case
for countries such as Israel, Hungary and Italy with a very small proportion of foreign researchers (3, 7 and 10%
respectively) in contrast with countries such as Switzerland, Austria and the UK with a significant share of foreign
ERC grantees out of the total hosted (76, 66 and 44% respectively). Until now, ERC grantees rarely chose to
move to a country different from where they were already conducting their research activities at the moment of
submitting the proposal. Finally, although 2/3 of grantees are nationals working in their home countries, there
are some nationalities that tend to work abroad rather than in their home country. Indeed a significant share of
Italian, German, Polish and Greek grantees work in other EU countries.
Greece does not host any Principal Investigator of other nationalities. However, 31 non-Greek PIs (4% of ap-
plications from Greece) have submitted a proposal with a Greek Host Institution unfortunately without success.
In addition, while Greece occupies 16
th
position in terms of ERC grantees hosted in Greek Host Institutions, it
is placed in 12
th
position in terms of nationality of the Principal Investigator. 52 promising and established top
Greek researchers in their field have been funded through the IDEAS programme: 32 in the Starting and 20 in
the Advanced funding scheme
(15)
.
Chart 25 shows the distribution of ERC grantees in Greece and abroad per funding scheme. More than half of
the Greek grantees successfully applied through a foreign host institution. In this sense, 56% and 50% of the
Greek Starting and Advanced grantees, respectively, are implementing their excellent research at the frontier of
knowledge outside of Greece.
Abroad
Greece
14
10
24
32
18
20
10
52
28
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Greek Starting
Grantees
Greek Advanced
Grantees
Total Greek ERC
Grantees
54
the
case of
GREECE
5
years of
Excellence in
the European
Research Area
2007-2011