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Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.
Bulgaria is set to lose millions of euros in EU funding aimed at modernising the country’s research infrastructure and stimulating its innovation potential, apparently due to its inability to select independent evaluators.
Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns
The European Commission, which spends more than €10 billion annually on research, may set up a “publishing platform” for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe.
Commission may follow Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation in establishing a rapid-publication platform.
Carlos Moedas sees a bold future for the European Research Council and more projects that copy its approach.
As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, researchers reveal what more than €12bn of ERC funding has supported.
Responsible metrics and evaluation for open science.
Similarities and differences in Open Data and Open Science policies between European nations.
As the European Research Council celebrates its 10-year anniversary, three Starting Grant awardees describe their career paths.
The Commission wants to knit existing data infrastructures into a shared pan European resource.
The EOSCpilot project will support the first phase in the development of the European Open Science Cloud.
The European Research Council has earned a reputation for quality—and for being risk averse
Transcript of Moedas' speech on funding and innovation.
The European Commission has changed the Horizon 2020 model grant agreement, to try to address complaints about low salary levels among the newer 13 member states.
The first data on the uptake of open access to publications in Horizon 2020.
As top-down governance gives signs of obsolescence, it is time to adopt greater bottom-up input from scientists into policies influencing our lives.
EU Research Commissioner Carlos Moedas praises scientists for finding their voice.
An overview of the new rules to consider where scientific projects include the processing of personal data.
