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Margaret Hunt is a historian working at Uppsala University. She has been involved in the evaluation process for ERC grants both as a normal member and as a chair of a panel.  Prof Hunt answered our questions on the value, difficulties and processes…

We interviewed political scientist Adina Akbik, who was awarded an ERC Starting Grant on her second application attempt. She explained her personal winning methodology, the importance of perseverance and the value of feedback from the ERC evaluators…

In an interview with ERC Magazine, Ted Hewitt, President of Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, talks about his agency’s approach to evaluating grant proposals and working with review panels. He explains the challenges of peer…

The ERC is dedicated to advancing frontier research through a competitive, pan-European competition that places the utmost importance on impartiality and transparency in the selection process. This has led to the establishment of a peer-review…

You’d be surprised how many people have acted as ERC panel members and remote reviewers over the years, and how many proposals they must deal with, in this year alone. We break it down for you below. 

To discover what it is like to be a remote reviewer or a member of an evaluation panel for the ERC we interviewed biochemist Kresten Lindorff-Larsen. Prof Lindorff-Larsen was a panel member of the ERC’s PE4 panel for Physical and Analytical Chemical…