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Nature 448, 727-728 (16 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448727b; Published online 15 August 2007

Division of labour

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The European Research Council shouldn't be coy about saying who will get its first set of grants.

The first Europe-wide research agency to distribute funding purely on the basis of scientific merit is working with commendable efficiency. Its officials have just ploughed through more than 9,000 first-stage applications for the inaugural programme of grants and asked 559 of them to submit a complete application.