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Designed to boost investment in pioneering scientific research, it will inject some €335m ($520m) this year in starting grants to individual research projects, bypassing national governments.
Wolfgang Eppenschwandtner, the executive coordinator of ISE, told me that the petition is truly grassroots, having been initiated by young scientists holding Starting Grants from the European Research Council.
They take the talent that normally stays in a university.Recent figures from the European Research Council show that 40% of the starting grants awarded to young researchers went to non-university centres in Germany, whereas in Britain it was 13%.
Starting Grants applicants (who have between 2 and 7 years' experience after their Ph.D).
Indeed, both brothers may apply for 5-year starting grants from the European Research Council.
For example, the Starting Grants are wonderful, but what happens afterwards?
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Starting Grant winner and mother of three Michal Sharon has managed to have both a family and a scientific career.
His daughter plans to use her ERC starting grant to extend his efforts to nanomechanics and its applications.
At just 24, Katerina Aifantis has already received a starting grant from the European Research Council to establish an independent lab in Greece. .
Eager to make the most of a starting grant he's just received from the European Research Council, Dubus sees his committee duty as a "distraction". .
This happens for example in Austria: We receive 21% of Starting Grant applications from Austrian women, where there are 22% of women at this career level.
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