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 |
ESF peer-review standards and the Dunning-Kruger Effect |
Last year, John O'Doherty, Rui Costa and I applied for one of the research conferences of the European Science Foundation. All three of us work on the neurobiology of spontaneous actions, so the topic of the call - "Acti...[more] |
ESF application peer-review dunning-kruger effect rejection |
Posted on Friday 16 April 2010 - 19:39:13 |