What is the relationship between ESF and the ERC?
The European Science Foundation welcomes the creation of the European Research Council and looks forward to its success. ESF was one of the leading voices of support for the creation of an ERC. The European Research Council (ERC) will support individual researchers and terms in order to promote European excellence and, in this way, to secure a leadership position for Europe at the frontiers of science. ESF will focus, in a complimentary way, on promoting cooperation and coordination between its Member Organisations, research-funding or research-performing organisations that control the vast majority of basic research funding in Europe.
