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Editorial
Nature 445, 795-796 (22 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445795b; Published online 21 February 2007
Rise to the challenge
Abstract
The European Research Council, launched next week, is a stimulus for weak universities.
Outside Europe it may be hard to imagine the scale of the triumph involved in the creation of a Europe-wide agency for competitive basic research, along the lines of the US National Science Foundation. After what seems like another hundred-years' war, a solution to member countries' concerns — that they must pay into a pot that then funds researchers elsewhere — has finally been found in the form of the European Research Council (ERC).
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