It includes experts’ presentations and a roundtable session where ERC grantees will share their experience, give advice to potential applicants and reply to any potential questions from participants. Prof. Andrzej Jajszczyk, Vice-President of the European Research Council and Chair of the Working Group on Widening European Participation will explain how the ERC is helping to strengthen the participation of researchers in ERC calls from Europe less research-performing regions.

Attendees will have the chance not only to get to know the ERC and the ERC funding schemes better but also to interact with ERC grantees and other participants via digital tools.

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Moderator: Magdalena CHOMICKA, ERC National Contact Point, National Centre for Research and Development, Poland

10:00 - 10:25 | Opening remarks

• Mateusz GACZYŃSKI, Deputy Director, Department of Innovation and Development, Ministry of Science and Education 
• Prof. Andrzej JAJSZCZYK, Vice-President of the European Research Council 

10:25-10:30 | Questions & Answers 

10:30-11:20 | ERC Round table session: Applying for an ERC grant 

• Aneta KRZEMIEŃ BARKLEY, Scientific Officer at the Social Sciences and Humanities Unit of the ERCEA Scientific Department. 

• Bogna HRYNISZYN, ERC National Contact Point, National Centre for Research and Development, Poland

• Maciej LEWENSTEIN, ERC Panel member

• Krzysztof FIC, Poznań University of Technology, ERC grantee

• Valentina LEPRI, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences, ERC grantee

11:20-11:40 | Questions & Answers 

11:40-11:50 | Wrap up and closing remarks

Prof. Andrzej JAJSZCZYK, Vice-President of the European Research Council