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The European Research Council: A Revolutionary Excellence Initiative for Europe1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2009

Manolis Antonoyiannakis  and
Fotis C. Kafatos
Manolis Antonoyiannakis*
Affiliation:
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK; also at Physical Review Letters, The American Physical Society, Ridge, New York 11961, USA. E-mail: e.antonogiannakis@imperial.ac.uk
Fotis C. Kafatos
Affiliation:
Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Abstract

Launched in 2007, the European Research Council (ERC) aims at pulling out all the stops in supporting ambitious research projects in frontier research by the most talented scientists and scholars. The ERC grants are generous, open to nationals from any country in the world, and subject to one criterion alone: peer-reviewed excellence. We outline the central strategic priorities of the ERC, and briefly describe some impressions from the first two calls.

Type
Focus: Global Science
Information
European Review , Volume 17 , Issue 3-4 , October 2009 , pp. 511 - 516
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2009

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1. Adapted from a presentation by F. C. Kafatos at the Academia Europaea, Liverpool, September 2008.Google Scholar
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