ERC Consolidator Grants: Results from 2014 call

by biofisica · Published 12/03/2015 · Updated 16/03/2015

ERC consolidator Grants 2014, Statistics by country of host institution and nationality of grantee

372 Projects Funded, 32 in Spain

Among the winners are three SBE members:

Teresa Giráldez, from the Medical School and Center for Biomedical Research of the Canary Islands (CIBICAN), La Laguna University (Tenerife)
Aitziber López-Cortajarena, from the “Instituto IMDEA Nanociencia” (Madrid)
Xavier Salvatella, from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona)

The European Research Council – ERC is today announcing the 372 winners of its second Consolidator Grant competition. These excellent mid-career scientists are awarded a total of €713 million, as part of the European Union Research and Innovation programme Horizon 2020. Grants are worth up to €2.75 million each and will enable grantees to consolidate their research teams and to develop their most innovative ideas.
The overall success rate in this call was 15%.

These Consolidator Grants, awarded to 372 research leaders still in an early stage of their career, will also back some 1,500 postdocs and PhD students as team members (President of the ERC, Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, commented).

The grantees are from 38 different nationalities. German scientists were the most successful (69 grants), followed by French (44) and British (37). Spanish occupy a fourth place, with 33 grants. Their work will be developed in 24 countries, with the UK (86), Germany (66) and France (53) in the lead and Spain and the Netherlands (each with 32 grants, 8.6% of total) in a fourth position. For Spain this represents an important increase of success with respect to the previous call.