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Nature 441, 672 (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441672a; Published online 7 June 2006

EU science fund targets young guns

Alison Abbott

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European Research Council becomes a reality.

Ten years ago, few would have imagined a European Union-wide fund for basic research, distributed without restrictions on scientific creed or country. The idea that the notoriously bureaucratic European Commission would finance such a fund, with no strings attached, would have stretched credibility too far.