Talk:European Research Council

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Old chat[edit]

I accessed the following pages on BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4697883.stm, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4277561.stm, however, I don't think they are suitable to be listed as references. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 10:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

ERC Launch[edit]

Story covered here, [1]. Article needs major update. Grunners 12:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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February 2010[edit]

I have reverted a wholesale revision of the article, twice now, since the edits removed references and added original research (that is, in this case, the quality that made the thing read like an essay), as is clearly evidenced in statements such as the following: "The major problem for research in Europe is the fragmentation and disintegration of the whole knowledge space wich is to be organized as a single system of sciences, humanities and engineering thus providing the conceptual base for a single European Research Area." This kind of thing is not OK in Wikipedia, and the IP is urged not to keep reinserting this sort of information, in this and other articles: such changes are disruptive. Thank you. Drmies (talk) 22:29, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Protected[edit]

Due to the dispute, the article is fully protected for five days. Please use this time to get agreement on Talk about any changes that may be needed. If reverts continue after protection expires, without first making an effort to get consensus on Talk, blocks are possible. EdJohnston (talk) 15:18, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've now put the article under long-term semiprotection. An IP from the 83.168.* range keeps putting back a wildly different version of the article which includes some unsourced criticism of the ERC, for example:

The first results show that the shortcomings typical for the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development apply to the Ideas programme as well: staff maladministration, arbitrary decisions on eligibility and funding, low peer reviewing, the last comes from the hard scheme of Science and Engineering used by ERC, which is missing the converging and emerging sciences and technologies and setting up the panels of experts only with narrow expertise. Among the interdisciplinary research happened such completely unfitting projects as "Reconstructing Ancient (Biblical) Israel" or "Evolution of Development in Plants". The first ERC advanced grants, mostly distributed among academics from national universities, showed a fateful fault of mixing educational institutions with research institutions, thus leaving aside progressive research companies and so original ideas and avant-garde research projects

The IP wants to offer this criticism in Wikipedia's voice, as though it were part of what everyone knows about the ERC. Wikipedia is not a soapbox, and such POV-pushing does not belong in our articles. EdJohnston (talk) 00:49, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Horizon2020[edit]

Unfortunately there is no information yet on the further development of the ERC under the Horizon2020 programme of the EU, which should be incorporated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.183.250.1 (talk) 09:48, 19 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Grant articles discussion[edit]

For those following this page, there are two articles created on the grants. I have proposed either merger or redirecting them. Talk:ERC Starting Grant#Proposed merge with ERC Advanced Grant is the discussion link. Jerod Lycett (talk) 18:33, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]