European Research Council launched today (Feb 27)

European Research Council launched today (Feb 27)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/11/2/23

Scientists in Europe are set to benefit from a massive new source of
research money following the official launch of the European Research
Council (ERC) at a conference in Berlin today. The ERC -- the first
pan-European funding agency to cover all fields of science -- will award
grants to individual researchers worth a total of Euro 7.5bn over the
next seven years. The launch conference is being attended by over 280
scientists including German chancellor and former physicist Angela
Merkel, who is the current president of the European Union's council of
ministers.
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