GeoLog | ERC

GeoPolicy: European Research Council funding opportunities – Your questions answered!

Chloe Hill December 9, 2020

The European Research Council (ERC) is a leading European funding body supporting frontier research, investigator-driven, across all fields of science.The ERC offers various different funding opportunities with grants budgets of €1.5 to €3.5 million for individual scientists with the sole criterion for selection being scientific excellence. In October, the EGU hosted a webinar that highlighted som ...[Read More]

GeoPolicy: Proposed cuts to EU science funding could slow future research and innovation

Chloe Hill October 23, 2020

State of the Union 2015. Credit: Martin Schulz. Distributed via Flickr

As a European scientific union with over 20,000 members, the EGU is well positioned to provide feedback on the current and future state of research and innovation funding in Europe. The recent cuts to the EU’s 2021-2027 research budget from European Parliament’s initial proposal of €120 billion to the current proposal of €81 billion (at 2018 prices), will not only affect researchers througho ...[Read More]

EGU statement of support for the European Research Council

Chloe Hill April 16, 2020

The European Research Council (ERC) is the sole European science funding agency that is designed and governed by scientists. As such, it has become one of the world’s leading and most respected funders of frontier research, with more than 70% of completed projects leading to discoveries or major advances. The ERC’s investigator-driven approach and allocation of grants based solely on scientific ex ...[Read More]

Conversations on being a woman in Geoscience

Keri McNamara May 17, 2017

Image modified from Salty shoreline at the Dead Sea . Credit: Djamil Al-Halbouni (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu).

While at this year’s General Assembly in Vienna, Keri McNamara, one of the EGU’s press assistants, spoke to a number of female geoscientists (at different career stages), to get their perspective on what being a female in geosciences is like. At this year’s EGU General Assembly I decided to construct a blog out of conversations I had with several women in geoscience, to learn about the ...[Read More]