European Research Council (ERC) demographics and initiatives to promote diversity
- European Research Council Executive Agency, Scientific Department, Brussels, Belgium
The European Research Council (ERC), Europe’s premiere funding agency for frontier research, views equality of opportunities as an essential priority. The ERC monitors closely various demographic data yearly on every call and has taken actions to tackle imbalances and potential implicit and explicit biases.
In this presentation, we will focus on demographic data of the three main funding schemes: Starting Grant, Consolidator Grant and Advanced Grant. The data of the ERC population, collected over the two past European Framework Programs (FP7 2007-2013 and H2020 2014-2020), will focus on gender and geographic location within the area of Universe Sciences and more particularly Planetary Sciences.
The ERC is aware that promoting diversity is a continuous effort. We will present the various initiatives put in place since the inception of the ERC together with the recent actions taken to adapt to the COVID19 pandemic.
How to cite: Fivet, V., Alves de Jesus-Rydin, C., and Keil, A.: European Research Council (ERC) demographics and initiatives to promote diversity, European Planetary Science Congress 2021, online, 13–24 Sep 2021, EPSC2021-591, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2021-591, 2021.
