National backing extends ERC’s influence

France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain have launched national initiatives offering the possibility for financial support to finalists of the first ERC Starting Grant competition whose proposals cannot be funded by the ERC due to budgetary limits.

• Primary Source

European Research Council: Financial support from the national level to ERC Starting Grant finalists, April 2008 http://erc.europa.eu/pdf/national_funding_bodies_020408.pdf

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