Evaluation of research proposals: The why and what of the ERC's recent changes
21 February 2024
ERC President Maria Leptin explains the background and rationale to the recent changes in the evaluation process of ERC grant proposals.
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Research evaluation is at the heart of the ERC’s work. In the past year, the Scientific Council of the ERC introduced changes in the evaluation processes and evaluation forms for the 2024 calls for research proposals, as described in the ERC Work Programme 2024 and the associated guidance documents.
Maria Leptin reports about the changes, the discussions that led to them, and the reasoning behind them.
Read the report here.