European Research Council
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| October 1 2021 | Maria Leptin assumes the presidency of the European Research Council. |
| June 30 2021 | Maria Leptin is named president of the European Research Council, to take office from 1 October 2021. |
| April 2020 | Mauro Ferrari's brief presidency concludes. |
| January 2020 | Jean-Pierre Bourguignon's presidency ends, and Mauro Ferrari becomes president. |
| May 2019 | Mauro Ferrari, an internationally recognized nanomedicine scientist, is named the next president of the European Research Council. |
| 2014 | The ERC began its funding period under the Horizon 2020 programme, with a budget of over €13 billion allocated for research funding from 2014 to 2020. |
| January 2014 | Jean-Pierre Bourguignon becomes ERC president after Helga Nowotny's term, with Nuria Sebastian Galles added as a third vice-president. |
| 2013 | The position of Secretary General was abolished, with the ERC President now permanently based in Brussels. |
| June 2011 | A Task Force chaired by Robert-Jan Smits, the European Commission's Research Director-General, made recommendations about the ERC's governance structure for Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), suggesting merging the President and Secretary General positions. |
| 2010 | Professor Donald Bruce Dingwell became the third and final Secretary General, serving until 2013. |
| March 2010 | Helga Nowotny takes over as ERC president, succeeding Fotis Kafatos, with Carl-Henrik Heldin and Pavel Exner as vice-presidents. |
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