Jean-Pierre Bourguignon appointed next President of the European Research Council

EU News 527/2013

IP/13/1260
Brussels, 17 December 2013

The European Commission has today appointed Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon as the next President of the European Research Council (ERC), the EU's premier funding body for investigator-driven frontier research. Professor Bourguignon, a mathematician and French national, will take over in his new role as of 1 January 2014, replacing Professor Helga Nowotny. He will be the first ERC President to be based in Brussels, in a new reinforced role where he will devote most of his time to the job. He joins the ERC at a vital moment for its further development, with a strongly increased seven-year budget of over €13 billion under Horizon 2020, the new EU programme for research and innovation.

Source and additional information:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-1260_en.htm?locale=en

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