Division 3.1.6 Organisation of the peer review evaluation

The ERC Scientific Council establishes the peer review evaluation methodology, which may vary in detail for different calls, and oversees the peer review evaluation process and establishes rules of procedure for ERC Panels published on the ERC website (Guide for ERC Peer Reviewers). The ERC Scientific Council may also delegate its members to be present during the Panel meetings as observers. However, Scientific Council members shall not influence, under any circumstances, the outcome of the Panel meeting they attend.

The peer review evaluation is organised on the basis of the principles set out in section 2.1 above, to ensure a consistent, rigorous, quality-based assessment of proposals against the criteria set out in the Ideas work programme.

Where a call specifies a two-step evaluation procedure, only those proposals that pass the first step, based on the evaluation against a limited set of criteria, shall go forward for further peer review evaluation^f1.