EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL GETS FORMAL LAUNCH
February 1st, 2007
BY LARS RUGAARD, in BerlinTHE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) ambitious European Research Council (ERC) was launched this week (Tue and Wed 27/28-2) as the provider of what it's founding ruling committee called the "Champion's League of Researchers". Armed with a Euro 7 billion budget from the EU's Seventh Framework Programme, the council is meant to provide researchers in the EU with innovation and competition stimuli, thus enhancing the EU's research and economic performance.ERC president, professor Fotis Kafatos of Imperial College London, outlined the council's ...
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