Brussels in brief: Updates on EU developments in education and research

Last month, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Governing Board elected its next chairman while the European Research Council has published details of the number of proposals submitted in the ERC Starting Grant competition – the first one under the Horizon 2020 programme.
ERC Starting grant competition
The European Research Council has announced that a total of 3 272 proposals were submitted in the 2014 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant competition – the first one under the new EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 – which closed on 27 March. In this call, the distribution by the three ERC domains was as follows: 1 494 proposals were submitted in “Physical Sciences and Engineering”, 1 030 in “Life Sciences” and 748 in “Social Sciences and Humanities”. For more information, please click here. More...