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Editorial
Nature 436, 441-442 (28 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436441b; Published online 27 July 2005
Born to be in Brussels
Abstract
The proposed European Research Council will be safest under the wing of the European Commission.
Whatever happens over the next few months in budget negotiations for the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, there now seems to be widespread political acceptance that the European Research Council (ERC) should be established as a funding body for the continent's researchers in the sciences and humanities.The most visible step so far in the creation of the ERC occurred last week when the 22 members of its scientific board were named (see http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/research/press/2005/pr1807en.cfm
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