it will be called so Start-up Grants Designed for scientists with a minimum of two and a maximum of seven years of post-PhD work experience. With the grants, 2.5 million euros each, they can put their own research group to work.
This time, the European Research Council ERC awarded 436 grants, totaling €677 million. This is 56 million euros more than last year. As always, the chance of success was slim: only 13 percent of all applications were approved.
Germany is the big winner in this round with 88 grants. Second place goes to England who manage to get 62. It is followed by the Netherlands (42), France (38) and Switzerland (34).
Robots
In everything Start-up Grants The Netherlands won by 9.6 percent. Laureates conduct research on very diverse scientific subjects: from robots made of soft materials to the effects of pregnancy on the human brain.
Like it Last year Most grants in our country went to scientists at the University of Amsterdam (8). Utrecht University (5) performs best, followed by Leiden University (4) and NWO institutions (4).
Anger
The Netherlands has been doing well over the years good In applying for European research funding. Universities are not idle anger It emerged before the holidays that the European science budget had been allocated billions less than originally intended.
September 4 Update: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Erasmus University received the lowest number of grants of all Dutch universities. This is incorrect: Groningen, Tilburg and Twente are one grant, EUR two.
