Opportunities for Researchers Moving to Europe: ERC and African Researchers 2024
Various grants and initiatives available for researchers from third countries, including African nations, to collaborate and work in Europe. Learn about the ERC Synergy grants, Implementing Arrangements promoting international collaboration, and the State-of-play data on ERC grantees' interest in hosting non-European researchers since 2012."
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EURAXESS Webinars 2024 ERC and African researchers
Opportunities for researchers in Third Countries Additional start-up funding for scientists moving to Europe (EUR 1 Million irrespective of grant scheme) Grantee can keep affiliation with home institute outside Europe ( significant part of work time in Europe, at least 50%) Team members can be based outside Europe, depending on project
ERC grantees national of African countries 2007-2024 Horizon Europe only 3
ERC Synergy open to the world One Principal Investigator per Synergy Grant Group (except the Coordinator) can be based in a Third Country. 4
1 Synergy grantee in South Africa ERC Synergy 2023 6
ERC Implementing Arrangements (IA) The Implementing Arrangements are international initiatives promoting opportunity for researchers to visit and collaborate with ERC teams, partially supported by non- European agencies. ERC Implementing Arrangement with the South Africa National Research Foundation signed on October 2015. 7
ERC IA State-of-play: ERC PIs Participation 2012-2023 Number of ERC grantees expressed interest to host non-European researchers Country 2012 789 2013 676 492 2014 372 351 2015 507 358 402 453 378 358 2016 380 319 293 345 296 279 303 294 353 2017 312 256 249 287 245 240 249 242 289 224 2018 423 341 332 377 322 312 329 316 392 301 370 369 325 276 2019 730 570 566 634 542 539 545 534 660 514 625 610 541 468 647 584 2020 766 658 620 697 617 612 616 601 714 569 698 668 636 543 705 667 648 569 2021 748 599 562 654 577 570 575 566 666 531 645 624 581 491 667 600 579 528 2022 850 689 627 751 674 660 665 668 783 626 732 716 684 593 768 698 675 618 600 688 2023 931 763 662 839 732 707 758 714 856 666 825 805 751 619 845 754 750 658 645 752 USA South Korea PI China Japan JSPS Argentina South Africa Brazil Mexico Canada India SERB Early Japan JST Australia NHMRC South Korea PhD India SERB PhD Australia ARC Singapore Japan AMED India ICSSR Thailand Average 789 584 362 409 318 259 342 582 645 598 8
ERC IA State-of-play: visits to ERC projects 2012-2022 Number of visiting researchers by year and by country Country 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021* 2022** Total Japan AMED India ICSSR Singapore Australia ARC Japan JST Australia NHMRC India SERB Canada Mexico Brazil Argentina China Japan JSPS South Africa Republic of Korea USA Total 4 4 0 3 3 3 2 2 1 6 3 11 0 5 7 9 126 15 100 60 14 186 140 683 5 3 4 3 5 1 12 5 12 13 2 30 22 37 30 25 5 20 15 1 5 11 3 5 30 11 65 7 2 1 8 22 13 20 11 2 32 3 100 3 3 31 23 54 28 35 12 12 18 60 15 49 32 98 26 56 28 82 79 For 2019-2020 ERC calls for EoI, many countries did not launch or postponed internal calls, because of pandemics mobility limitations. * Many visits for 2021 ERC call for EoI started on 2022 because of pandemics mobility limitations. * * Preliminary data for 2022 ERC call for EoI. 9
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