ERC Starting Grant 2010
Outcome: Indicative statistics
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Submitted and selected proposals by domain
Source: 427 proposals
Life Sciences
Physical Sciences &
Engineering
Social Sciences &
Humanities
1029 (35.8%)
1205 (42%)
639 (22.2 %)
153 (35.8%)
195 (45.7%)
79 (18.5%)
Submitted proposals
Selected proposals
Total = 2873 rate ~15% Success Total = 427
Grantees by country of host institution & domain
Source: 427 proposals
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
UK FR DE CH IL NL ES IT SE BE AT PT DK FI HU IE CZ EL NO PL CY
Number of Grantees
Social Sciences &
Humanities
Physical Sciences &
Engineering Life Sciences
21 countries
79 71
67
23 22 20
17 12
6 5 5 5 5
3 3 3 3
1
25 25
27
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Grantees by nationality & gender
Source: 427 proposals
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
DE FR IT IL UK NL ES BE SE EL US AT AU CH HU PL PT IE RU CZ DK FI IN AR BG JP TR AL BR CA CN CY EE HR KR LU NO RO SI
Nationality of Grantees
Number of Grantees
Male grantees Female grantees
ERC 2010: StG-10-427
39 nationalities
83
5 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 62
41
28 28 26
19 14 13
11 11
9 9 9 9
6 6
Grantees by current country of residence
Source: 427 proposals
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
UK FR DE IL CH NL IT ES SE BE US AT FI IE PT HU DK EL PL AU CZ NO BR CY HR KR
Number of Grantees
Social Sciences &
Humanities
Physical Sciences &
Engineering Life Sciences
26 countries
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Mobility: Incoming & staying grantees
Source: 427 proposals
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
UK FR DE CH IL NL ES IT SE BE AT PT DK FI HU IE CZ EL NO PL CY
Country of host institution
N um be r of G ra nt e e s
Grantees moving to the country ("European" & "non-European" nationals) Grantees staying in the country: "Non-European" nationals
Grantees staying in the country: other "European" nationals Grantees staying in the country: nationals of that country
ERC 2010: StG-10-427
Grantees by panel & gender
Source: 427 proposals
List of panel acronyms: see Annex I
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
LS1 LS2 LS3 LS4 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9 PE1 PE2 PE3 PE4 PE5 PE6 PE7 PE8 PE9 PE10 SH1 SH2 SH3 SH4 SH5 SH6 Life Science Physical Sciences & Engineering Social Sciences & Humanities
Number of Grantees
Female grantees
Overall: 26.5 % women
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ERC Panel structure
Life Sciences
• LS1 Molecular & Structural Biology & Biochemistry
• LS2 Genetics, Genomics, Bioinformatics & Systems Biology
• LS3 Cellular and Developmental Biology
• LS4 Physiology, Pathophysiology & Endocrinology
• LS5 Neurosciences & neural disorders
• LS6 Immunity & infection
• LS7 Diagnostic tools, therapies & public health
• LS8 Evolutionary, population & environmental biology
• LS9 Applied life sciences & biotechnology
Social Sciences & Humanities
• SH1 Individuals, institutions & markets
• SH2 Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour
• SH3 Environment & society
• SH4 The Human Mind and its complexity
• SH5 Cultures & cultural production
• SH6 The study of the human past
Physical Sciences & Engineering
• PE1 Mathematical foundations
• PE2 Fundamental constituents of matter
• PE3 Condensed matter physics
• PE4 Physical & Analytical Chemical sciences
• PE5 Materials & Synthesis
• PE6 Computer science & informatics
• PE7 Systems & communication engineering
• PE8 Products & process engineering
• PE9 Universe sciences
• PE10 Earth system science
Country codes
EU Member States
AT Austria BE Belgium BG Bulgaria CY Cyprus
CZ Czech Republic DE Germany DK Denmark EE Estonia EL Greece ES Spain FI Finland FR France HU Hungary IE Ireland IT Italy LT Lithuania LU Luxembourg LV Latvia MT Malta NL Netherlands PL Poland PT Portugal RO Romania SE Sweden SI Slovenia SK Slovakia UK United Kingdom
FP7 Associated Countries
AL Albania
BA Bosnia and Herzegovina
CH Switzerland
HR Croatia
IL Israel
IS Iceland
FO Faroe Islands
LI Liechtenstein
ME Montenegro
MK FYR of Macedonia
NO Norway
RS Serbia
TR Turkey
Other countries
AR Argentina
AU Australia
BR Brazil
CA Canada
CN China (People's Republic of)
IN India
JP Japan
KR Korea (Republic of) RU Russian Federation
US United States
