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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 - 12:41:54 |
| 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 - 19:18:10 |
| 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 - 15:45:14 |
| Everybody agrees: this is a great project - but still no funding |
| For almost two years now I've been trying to find out if insects have a default-mode network. Last year, I applied to the European Research Council, asking for the money for a microscope and some research staff. The revi...[more] |
| ERC starting grant rejection application |
| Posted on Thursday 07 April 2011 - 08:57:30 |
| 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 - 09:47:17 |
| 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 - 17:34:33 |
| 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 - 11:17:40 |