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4.
Impact &Major Achievements of the
ERC in the ERA & Particularly in Greece
Since its launch in 2007, the ERC has introduced three types of performance indicators to monitor the imple-
mentation of the IDEAS Programme:
Quantitative and qualitative indicators charting the course of scientific and technical progress (publications,
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index of quotations, patents, etc.);
Management indicators to monitor performance internally and support senior management decision-making
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(implementation of the budget, setting time limits for the signature of contracts, setting payment deadlines,
etc.); and
Outcome indicators to assess the overall effectiveness of the research in relation to the European Union
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(EU) headline goals.
In addition, in June 2009 the Scientific Council adopted the ERC Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Strategy to
monitor the performance of its operations and the impact of its funding activities, to take corrective actions if
necessary and to provide comprehensive and reliable information on ERC activities and their impacts. The ERC
M&E Strategy is being implemented by the ERC Executive Agency - using internal resources to analyse ERC
calls, teams and outputs (bibliometrics) - and also by external experts through the Coordination and Support
Action (CSAs) instruments
& 21)
. In this regard, four projects (CSAs) started in 2009:
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analyses the impact of the ERC on researchers, research organisations, funding institu-
tions and policy structures. The two-year project is coordinated by the Manchester Institute of Innovation
Research and has eight participants.
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nvestigates the impact on career development, the host institutions, the research structures and
the research output. The five-year project is coordinated by the Humboldt University in Berlin.
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is a 3-year project that provides bibliometric monitoring for the peer review process of the first Start-
ing and Advanced Grant calls. The project participants are the Austrian Research Centres and the CNRS
Institute for Scientific and Technical Information in Nancy.
Finally,
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identifies emerging research areas and analyses to what extent the ERC funding contrib-
utes to these novel fields of research. This five-year project is implemented by the Fraunhofer Institute ISI in
Karlsruhe and the University of Leuven.
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the
case of
GREECE
5
years of
Excellence in
the European
Research Area
2007-2011