European Research Council battles bureaucracy
NOV 18, 2010
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.024838
Nature : Launched in 2007 with a six-year budget of €7.51 billion ($10.2 billion), the European Research Council disperses funds to researchers in the European Union’s 27 member states based on merit, not national quotas or other political criteria. Because ERC channels funds from the EU’s executive arm, the European Commission, it must follow the same bureaucratic procedures as the rest of the commission does. Those procedures are proving onerous to grant applicants and administrators. In a Q&A with Nature‘s Alison Abbott, ERC president Helga Nowotny explains how the ERC and the commission are working to streamline ERC operations.
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