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The European Research Council (ERC) is an ambitious new component of the EU's research
policy, introduced under the provisions of the European Community's Seventh Framework
Programme for Research (FP7)1. It is the means for implementing the Specific Programme
“Ideas”, which is endowed with a substantial budget (?? 7.51 billion over the period 2007-
2013). The ERC's architecture comprises an independent Scientific Council, composed of 22
eminent researchers, supported by a Dedicated Implementation Structure (DIS) in the form of
an Executive Agency of the Commission2.

Creating the ERC was a pioneering step for the European Union3. Set up as a brand new
entity to fund investigator-driven frontier research of world class quality at European level,
with the aim to advance Europe's scientific performance at the highest levels of excellence,
the ERC is establishing new parameters for research activity at Community level. For the first
time, a Community research programme is operating on the basis of open European
competition between individual research teams, independent scientific governance, and
autonomous execution via an executive agency. The ERC has already become a highly visible and influential component of the European Research Area.

Two and a half years from the start of FP7 and the implementation of the "Ideas" programme,
it is an opportune time to take stock of progress:

 

 

 

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