Success in grant applications for women and men

Abstract. Sex-disaggregated data on the success rates of applications to the individual grants at the European Research Council and selected national funding agencies show similar outcomes for women and men. There are large differences in success rates between countries and in all countries with applicants to the European Research Council men are applying disproportionally more (and women less) compared to the demography of the researchers in the higher education sectors in the respective countries. Therefore, the proportion of women funded is even lower than their representation in the fields of Natural Science and Engineering and Technology. Some contributing factors are discussed and the question on how the current and future success rates could be interpreted is raised.

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Gypsy Policy and Roma Activism: From the Interwar Period to Current Policies and Challenges

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v8i2.3036 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 260-264 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Elena Marushiakova ◽

Vesselin Popov

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Interwar Period ◽

Research Council ◽

Thematic Issue ◽

European Research ◽

European Research Council ◽

Historical Processes ◽

The Individual

The editorial introduces the key ideas of this thematic issue, which originated within the European Research Council project ‘RomaInterbellum. Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars.’ The period between WWI and WWII in the region of Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe was an era of worldwide significant changes, which marked the birth of the Roma civic emancipation movement and impacted Roma communities’ living strategies and visions about their future, worldwide. The aspiration of this thematic issue is to present the main dimensions of the processes of Roma civic emancipation and to outline the role of the Roma as active participants in the historical processes occurring in the studied region and as the creators of their own history. The editorial offers clarifications on the terminology and methodology employed in the articles included in this issue and their spatial and chronological parameters while also briefly introducing the individual authored studies of this issue.

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European Research Council (ERC) success rates of men and women in the geosciences

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13968 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Claudia Alves de Jesus Rydin ◽

Luis Farina Busto ◽

Alexis-Michel Mugabushaka

Keyword(s):

Research Council ◽

Demographic Data ◽

Geographic Location ◽

Funding Agency ◽

European Research ◽

Success Rates ◽

Men And Women ◽

European Research Council ◽

Equality Of Opportunities ◽

Implicit And Explicit

The European Research Council (ERC), Europe&#8217;s premiere funding agency for frontier research, views equality of opportunities as an essential priority. The ERC monitors closely various demographic data yearly on every call and has taken actions to tackle imbalances and potential implicit and explicit biases.The ERC poster is focused on demographic geosciences data for the three main funding schemes: Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant. The data of the ERC population is expressed statistically, with focus on gender and geographic location.Success rates of geosciences applicants by gender are compared to the both success rates from other fields of science at the ERC and other funding organisations in Europe.Recent initiatives at the ERC to tackle imbalances are also presented.

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