Natural Science Forum / Physics / General Physics / February 2007

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.