Pressure mounts for ERC reorganisation, to cut red tape

Anna Jenkinson

Andreu Mas-Colell, ERC Secretary General

The European Research Council’s new secretary general, Andreu Mas-Colell, and its acting director, Jack Metthey, both support a reorganization of top management to help the agency establish itself as a world-class frontier research organization.

Merging the two positions was one of the recommendations made by an independent review last week, which called for urgent changes to avoid red tape and excessive bureaucracy dealing “a deadly blow” to the European Research Council. The ERC, created in 2007, has emerged as a high-prestige funder of basic research – with stiff...

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