Objective This project refers to the research topic "Emerging research areas" within the CSAs of the ERC work programme. Its main objectives are to identify topically emerging re-search areas within all science areas and to analyse to what extent ERC-supported activities cover and contribute to these research areas. Thus we will investigate whether the basic mission of the ERC, namely "..to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engi-neers to be adventurous and take risks in their research" is reached in a satisfying way. Thereby the project also contributes to the question, whether the bottom-up approach of ERC funding meets the expectation of being able to support new lines of research with impact on the development of dynamic creative and innovative areas of research in Europe. The concept of our project combines two approaches. The first one concerns the identification of topically emerging research areas assuming that excellent, truly creative research can be found in particular in these emerging areas. Growth analyses will be combined with advanced bibliometric analyses (bibliometric coupling, cross-citation and text mining) and validated via expert assessments. The second approach comprises a mapping of ERC-funded research to emerging fields and an assessment of the ex-pected impact of ERC-funded research in terms of contributions to creative and innova-tive research areas in Europe. In addition ERC-funded research activities referring to distinct areas not covered by the landscape of emerging fields will be identified and assessed. Conclusions on the impact of ERC funding on stimulating research in emerging areas will be drawn and recommendations for optimizing ERC procedures will be developed. The methodological approaches will be compiled to a toolbox for analysing the signifi-cance of ERC-funded research in relation to the worldwide landscape of emerging research areas. Keywords bibliometrics emerging research areas expert assessment international comparisons mapping ERC grants patent analysis science clusters text mining Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) ERC-EPS - Exploratory and preparatory studies Call for proposal ERC-2009-SUPPORT See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA-SA - Support actions Host institution FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV EU contribution € 282 675,00 Address HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 Munchen Germany See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Maximilian Steiert (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Beneficiaries (2) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV Germany EU contribution € 282 675,00 Address HANSASTRASSE 27C 80686 Munchen See on map Region Bayern Oberbayern München, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Maximilian Steiert (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN Belgium EU contribution € 131 443,00 Address OUDE MARKT 13 3000 Leuven See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Elke Lammertyn (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
