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This ERC annual report provides a glimpse into the main achievements of the ERC in 2012. Evaluation and granting procedures proved to run smoothly. The ERC has again successfully closed an Advanced Grant and a Starting Grant round, with approximately EUR 680 million and EUR 730 million spent, respectively. With more than 300 new Advanced Grantees, and around 560 Starting Grantees, this was a year in which more ERC grants have been distributed than ever before. Just after the end of 2012 the 3000th grant agreement was signed.
With 10 completed calls, around one fifth of the more than 3 400 selected projects has a female Principal Investigator. The share is substantially higher in the Starting Grant competitions with 24% women grantees, compared to 13% in the Advanced Grant competitions. These relatively low shares are partly due to the lower proportion of women applying to each of the two grant schemes, with an average of 29% in the Starting Grants and 15% in the Advanced Grants.
In general, male applicants are slightly more successful than women. Sometimes women are more successful than men, and this has happened in all three domains, although always in different calls