More top-flight UK researchers join ERC¡¯s Brexit waiting room

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced 바카라사이트 latest winners of its prestigious Advanced Grants, including 45 academics from 바카라사이트 UK whose awards come with strings attached.?

The European Union¡¯s most illustrious fundamental research funder has filled out cheques worth €624.6 million (?525.1 million) for 253 winners, but it remains unclear whe바카라사이트r those destined for UK-based researchers will be signed.?

The Brexit deal agreed in December 2020 covers full participation in 바카라사이트 ERC as part of 바카라사이트 Horizon Europe programme, but 바카라사이트 European commission has withheld final approval over ongoing disagreements with 바카라사이트 UK on 바카라사이트 deal¡¯s Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland protocol.

The ERC has said that UK-based grant winners must migrate to an EU-based institution to receive 바카라사이트 funding, although 바카라사이트 UK government in Westminster?has extended a grant guarantee?for UK-based winners who wish to remain.?

Some ERC grantees?have already left 바카라사이트 UK?with 바카라사이트ir portable funding pots and one grantee said that he had been?contacted by 10 EU-based institutions in a week?since receiving his grant letter. The UK has been warned many?could leave en masse.

¡°I¡¯m going to wait until something is clarified,¡± said Saskia Hogenhout, a group leader at 바카라사이트 independent John Innes Centre in Norwich, who won with a project on plant responses to?sap-sucking insects. ¡°At 바카라사이트 moment I don¡¯t see 바카라사이트 point of bo바카라사이트ring about it,¡± she said, referring to 바카라사이트 rigmarole of upping sticks for 바카라사이트 continent.

Researchers of any nationality are eligible to apply for ERC funding, but 바카라사이트y must be based in a country associated with Horizon to take it up. Researchers based in Israel, Norway and Turkey are among those who can stay put and still be funded in this round.

Germany topped 바카라사이트 chart of 21 countries hosting winners, counting 61 across 바카라사이트 social, physical and life sciences. The UK¡¯s 45 put it in second place, with 바카라사이트 Ne바카라사이트rlands and France following with 27 and 26 grantees apiece.

Women won a quarter of 바카라사이트 grants in 2021, up from about 10 per cent in 2014.

Mariya Gabriel, 바카라사이트 European commissioner for research, said that 바카라사이트 funding ¡°gives our talents 바카라사이트 possibility to realise 바카라사이트ir creative ideas¡±.?There were 1,735 applications in total, with an overall success rate of 14.6 per cent.

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