Research funding support services at LMU Munich: ERC StG Dr. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

RMA visit at KU Leuven, May 2019

Research funding support services at LMU Munich: ERC StG

• Dr. Tilmann Massey

Unit VIII.3 Team International Funding Programs

Research Funding Support

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Why? How?

• 1. Information
• Newsletter, targeted mailing lists, FiTsearch
• Workshops and information events
• 2. Counselling
• Individual consulting (for postdocs +): project design
• Internal networking with successful applicants
• 3. Proposal and project support
• Formal procedures, budget calculation
• Proposal feedback

Facilitating exciting research, increase of grant numbers and success rates ERC Starting Grant EU LMU Proposals submitted 3.170 46 Projects funded 403 10 Success rate (%) 12,7 21,7

Long-term career perspective for junior researchers

• Option of tenure-track professorships (W2) to successful ERC StG applicants
• Established in Call 2015, renewal decision every year
• No automatism! ERC evaluation and TT-selection procedure are parallel processes
• Appointment effective with project start

Tenure-Track professorships for ERC Starting Grantees

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11 successful appointments so far: 3 PE, 4 LS, 4 SH

The challenge: SC

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• SC (H2020):

34 projects

Only 2 coordinations LMU SC performance dominated by SC1