Statistics

European Research Council

ERC Advanced Grants 2011 Outcome: Indicative Statistics

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ERC Advanced Grant: 2011 Call


Submitted and selected proposals by domain

Submitted proposals

Selected proposals

PE

917

134 (45,6%)

LS

789

107 (36,4%)

SH

578

53 (18%)

Total = 2284

Success

Total = 294

rate 13% │2

ERC Advanced Grant: 2011 Call Grantees by country of host institution & domain


Source: 294 selected proposals

Number of selected proposals

80 70 60

68

Social Sciences and Humanties

52

20 countries

50 40 30 20 10 0

Physical Sciences and Engineering Life Sciences

31 23 22 20

15

11 9 9 7 7

4 4 3 3 2 2 1 1

UK DE FR IT CH NL ES IL DK SE AT BE EL NO FI HU IE PT CY PL

Country of Host Institution

ERC Advanced Grant: 2011 Call Grantees by nationality & gender



70 60

Male grantees

59

Female grantees 50

50 40

31

30

27

20

3

3

2

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

PL

PT

RU

4

NZ

4

CZ

5

CY

6

BY

7

CA

10

NO

13 13 12 11 10 9

IE

18

FI

AT

EL

HU

CH

SE

DK

IL

ES

US

BE

NL

IT

FR

DE

0 UK

Number of grantees

26 nationalities

Nationality of grantees

ERC Advanced Grant: 2011 Call Grantees by country of residence



80

Number of Grantees

70

Social Sciences and Humanities

68

60

22 countries

51

50 40

Physical Sciences and Engineering Life Sciences

34

30 22 18 17

20

15 11

10

9

9

9

7

4

4

4

3

2

BE DK SE AT EL HU NO FI

IE

2

2

1

1

1

0 UK DE FR

IT CH NL ES

IL

Residence country

PT US CA CY PL

ERC Advanced Grant: 2011 Call Mobility: Incoming & staying grantees



80

Number of Grantees

70 60

Grantees moving to the country - all nationalities Grantees staying in the country - "non-Europeans" Grantees staying in the country - "Europeans" Grantees staying in the country - nationals of that country

50 40 30 20 10 0 UK DE FR CH IT NL ES IL DK SE AT BE EL NO FI HU IE PT CY PL

Country of Host Institution

ERC Advanced Grant: 2011 Call Grantees by panel & gender


Source: 294 selected proposals List of panel acronyms: see Annex I

20

Overall 12.2% women

Male Female

16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2

Life Sciences

Physical Sciences and Engineering

SH6

SH5

SH4

SH3

SH2

SH1

PE10

PE9

PE8

PE7

PE6

PE5

PE4

PE3

PE2

PE1

LS9

LS8

LS7

LS6

LS5

LS4

LS3

LS2

0 LS1

Number of grantees

18

Social Sciences and Humanities

ERC Advanced grants 2008 - 2011 Number of selected proposals by country of host institution

UK DE FR CH IT NL ES IL SE AT DK BE FI NO HU EL IE PT CZ PL BG CY IS TR TOT

2008 58 26 35 28 20 19 14 15 16 8 4 5 9 2 4 4 0 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 275

2009 61 33 34 29 14 19 12 11 12 7 3 2 1 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 245

2010 53 45 32 21 21 17 13 13 11 6 5 5 4 7 4 2 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 266

2011 68 52 31 22 23 20 15 11 9 7 9 7 3 4 3 4 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 294

TOT 240 156 132 100 78 75 54 50 48 28 21 19 17 16 12 10 6 6 3 3 2 2 1 1 1080



Annex I: ERC panel structure

Life Sciences

Social Sciences & Humanities

• •

• • • • • •

• • • • • • •

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

SH1 Individuals, institutions & markets SH2 Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour SH3 Environment, space and population SH4 The Human Mind and its complexity SH5 Cultures & cultural production SH6 The study of the human past

Physical Sciences & Engineering • • • • • • • • • •

PE1 Mathematics 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


Annex II: 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 CA Canada NZ New Zeeland RU Russia BY Belarus US United States