EU Funding:
The European Research
Council
Nikki Muckle
Strategy & Change – Research Strategy
Excellent Science Base
European Research Council (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Marie Curie Actions
Research Infrastructures
Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies:
ICT; Nanotechnologies; Advanced Materials; Biotechnology;
Advanced Manufacturing and Processing; and Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographics changes and well being
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research
and the bio-economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Climate action and resource efficiency including raw materials
Inclusive, innovative and reflective societies
Secure Societies
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Euratom (2014-2018)
European Research Council
‘To encourage the highest quality research in
Europe through competitive funding and to
support investigator-initiated frontier research
across all fields of research, on the basis of
scientific excellence’
ERC in Horizon 2020
• To fund the best ‘frontier research’ proposals submitted by
excellent researchers, with scientific excellence as the sole
evaluation criterion.
• Will fund ‘individual’ teams, led by a Principal Investigator,
on the basis of pan-European competition.
• Programme of work
• Will operate on a ‘bottom-up’ basis, without predetermined research priorities.
ERC in Horizon 2020
• Principal investigators from anywhere in the world
• Host institution must be in EU or Associated State
• Increased budget proposed for the ERC in Horizon
2020 – increase of 77% over FP7
First calls due 11th December 2013 – deadlines in 2014
and 2015
ERC in Horizon 2020
Starting Grants
Consolidator Grants
Advanced Grants
Synergy Grants
Proof of Concept
Starting Grants
25th March 14?
• Starting own independent research team or
programme
Consolidator Grants
3rd June 14?
• Consolidating own independent research
team or programme
Marie Curie Actions in Horizon 2020
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Fostering new skills by means of excellent initial training of
researchers
Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and crosssector mobility
Stimulating innovation by means of cross-fertilisation of
knowledge
Co-funding activities with regional, national and international
funders
Note: Now the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Marie Curie – 4 Schemes
ITN
IF
Innovative Training Networks
(incl. industrial doctorates & joint doctorates)
Individual Fellowships
(supporting experienced researchers undertaking
mobility)
RISE
Research and Innovation Staff Exchange
COFUND
Co-funding of regional, national and
international programmes
(international and inter-sectoral cooperation)
(funding doctoral and postdoctoral researchers)