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Workshop on European Research Council (ERC)

(04.11.2010)

 

The worskhop on European Research Council took place in Prague on October 25th 2010 as a part of the Eighth Czech Days for European Research.  

 

ERC, its functioning, significance and future development were presented at the workshop. Participants were also informed about the Czech participation in the programme and about the system of national support schemes for successful ERC applicants. Final dicussion was dedicated to the views of the Czech Republic on future developments and strategies of frontier research support.

 

The workshop was opened by prof. Wilhelm, the Czech Government Commissioner for European research. The participants highly appreciated presentations of prof. Nowotny, the President of the ERC, dr. Hemmelskamp, the representative of the Executive Agency of the ERC, prof. Exner, the member of the ERC Scientific Council and moreover dr. Stepanek, dr. Schröder and dr. Roithova, principle investigators holding ERC grants, as well as contributions of prof. Koca and dr. Hrusak, the Czech representatives in the ERC programme committee and ing. Hakenova from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

 

 

Workshop programme.

Conclusions of the workshop.

 

Presentations can be downloaded here:

ERC and its future development (Nowotny), ERC contribution to the development of ERA (Hemmelskamp), Czech Republics participation in ERC (Koca), The systems of national support schemes for ERC applicants (Hakenova), Experience of Czech ERC grant holders and practical aspects of grant management (Schröder, Stepanek, Stepankova).