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ERC failing to achieve reputation for excellence?
There's a great editorial in this week's Nature issue: "Division of Labour". It's about the European Reasearch Comission (ERC) and its first round of grant review for the new "startup" grants. The main topic is transpare...[more]
ERC   grant   science politics   science funding   
Posted on Thursday 16 August 2007 - 06:41:54

The other 97.8%: why is the Nature Publishing Group uncritically hyping the ERC?
In April Nature Genetics poured heaps of praise on a granting body that that awards grants only to 2.2% of all applicants. Let's recap: In 2007, there were about 9200 young scientists in Europe anxiously waiting for an o...[more]
ERC   starting grant   Nature   Nature Genetics   science politics   science funding   
Posted on Tuesday 12 August 2008 - 13:18:10

High-Gain/High-Risk: can the ERC walk the talk?
In the 2009 call for their starting grants, the ERC announced that they would be funding innovative 'Frontier' research with higher-than-normal risk of not meting the proposed objectives: ...[more]
ERC   starting grant   rejection   application   
Posted on Tuesday 20 April 2010 - 09:45:14

What's good about a 2.2% funding rate?
In the latest issue of Nature Genetics, the Editorial is full of praise for the European funding of PostDocs and young faculty.

...[more]
science politics   ERC   science funding   
Posted on Tuesday 29 April 2008 - 03:47:17

ERC starting grant hugely popular
Speaking of press releases about popular sites for scientists, the newly formed European Research Council (ERC) reports that its very first call for proposals has received a record number of applications. The call for th...[more]
science   politics   science politics   ERC   grants   
Posted on Friday 04 May 2007 - 11:34:33

Let's play Fantasy Science Funding
Duncan Hull had the great idea of Fantasy Science Funding.

In step one, I'm picking the European Research Council (ERC) as founding body.
The ERC is in principle a great idea. Any scientific discipline can apply, from any ...[more]
science funding   science politics   fantasy science funding   fun   ERC   
Posted on Thursday 21 August 2008 - 05:17:40

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