European Research Council (ERC) demographics and initiatives to promote diversity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Fivet ◽  
Claudia Alves de Jesus-Rydin ◽  
Andreas Keil
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
European Research ◽  
European Research Council ◽  
Equality Of Opportunities ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

<p>The European Research Council (ERC), Europe’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.</p> <p>In this presentation, we will focus on demographic data of the three main funding schemes: Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant. The data of the ERC population, collected over the two past European Framework Programs (FP7 2007-2013 and H2020 2014-2020), will focus on gender and geographic location within the area of Universe Sciences and more particularly Planetary Sciences.</p> <p>The ERC is aware that promoting diversity is a continuous effort. We will present the various initiatives put in place since the inception of the ERC together with the recent actions taken to adapt to the COVID19 pandemic.</p>

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

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

<p>The European Research Council (ERC), Europe’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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Recent initiatives at the ERC to tackle imbalances are also presented.</p>

Diversity in ERC populations: applicants, grantees and reviewers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Jesus-Rydin ◽  
Luis Fariña-Busto
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Population Diversity ◽  
Funding Agency ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Equality Of Opportunities ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

<p>The European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premiere funding agency for frontier research, views equality of opportunities as an essential priority and a vital mission to ensure credibility in the review process. The ERC monitors closely various demographic data yearly on every call and has taken actions to tackle imbalances and potential implicit and explicit biases.</p><p>This presentation is focused on demographic data for the three main funding schemes: Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant. Attention is directed mainly to gender and geographic distribution. The demographics presented here consider various stakeholders, such as reviewers, applicants and grantees.</p><p>After more than 10 years of existence, ERC data provides an insight on demographical evolution. In the first framework programme (FP7, 2007-2013), 25% of applicants were women. In the last years (Horizon 2020, 2014-2019), this percentage increased by 4%, with 29% of women applied for ERC grants. In the same periods of time, the share of women as grantees has also increased from 20% to 29%. In the last years, men and women enjoy equal success rates. This presentation also sheds light on the population diversity of ERC reviewers, both panel members and external reviewers.</p><p>The ERC knows that work to ensure equality of opportunities is never finished. This presentation analyses critically the institutional efforts and considers possible steps to consolidate the accomplished results.</p>

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

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-264 ◽  
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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