BU Research Blog

The European Research Council has a number of Implementing Arrangements (IAs). These arrangements provide opportunities in Europe for early-career scientists supported by non-European funding agencies to temporarily join a research team run by an ERC grantee. The purpose of the arrangements is to encourage, develop and facilitate such opportunities.

Currently the following arrangements are in place:

• United States, signed 13 Jul 2012, with the National Science Foundation (NSF)
  Read more: agreement, press release
  
• Korea, signed 8 Nov 2013, with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning
  Read more: agreement, press highlight
• Argentina, signed 13 Mar 2015, with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation
  Read more: agreement EN, press highlight
  
• Japan, signed 29 May 2015 with the Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
  Read more: agreement EN, press release
  
• China, signed 29 Jun 2015, with the National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC)
  Read more: agreement EN, press highlight
  
• South Africa, signed 26 Oct 2015, with the National Research Foundation (NRF)
  Read more: agreement EN
• Mexico, signed 12 Nov 2015, with the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt)
  Read more:  agreement EN, press highlight

New similar arrangements from various geographically areas are being negotiated. It is expected to have them signed in 2015 and 2016.