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Researchers and institutions in Germany and the UK dominate in the starting grants for independent research issued by the recently created European Research Council.

The European Research Council unveiled its first-ever grant programme for ambitious, far-reaching research projects this week, earmarking €4 billion over the next six years.

A significant number of applications for the first round of grants from the newly established European Research Council have come from senior scientists currently living in non-EU countries.

The first outline of how the proposed European Research Council will try to stem the brain drain of Europe’s best young researchers has been sketched in by its governing body.