Facts and figures on evaluators of ERC grant proposals

You’d be surprised how many people have acted as ERC panel members and remote reviewers over the years, and how many proposals they must deal with, in this year alone. We break it down for you below. 

ERC evaluation panel members are eminent scientists and scholars, selected by the ERC Scientific Council, who collectively take the ranking decisions and make funding recommendations in the framework of the ERC evaluation panels. They have broad scientific expertise which allows them to assess a wide range of proposals within their respective evaluation panel. Under the 2024 Work Programme there are 28 panels for Starting, Consolidator, and Advanced Grants.  

Remote referees are selected individually by the ERC evaluation panels, by delegation from the ERC Scientific Council, for every proposal that has been passed to step 2 of the ERC evaluation procedure. Their specialist expertise for individual proposals is indispensable for the ERC evaluation panels to make their final funding (or rejection) decisions.  

In 2023 grant competitions, the ERC received 6,850 proposals and 46,351 reviews were made during evaluations.