To mark this milestone in the history of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, 30 highly promising researchers have been selected to showcase the EU's actions dedicated to excellence and worldwide mobility in research.

Is surprised that, in this exercise, the Council has not taken into account latest Commission's forecasts for programmes’ implementation, based on estimates of the same Member States, which on the one hand clearly highlight areas of over-performances where reinforcements are needed already in 2012 and on the other hand warn about the severe risk of shortages of payments, in particular under Headings 1a, 1b and 2; recalls in this context the letter that President Barroso addressed to the 27 Member States in July 2012 expressing his concern about the cuts made to the DB by the Council's reading, as a result of which there is a risk that sufficient funds are not made available to enable ...[+++] the EU to honour its debts;

Under the ‘Ideas’ programme, activities should be implemented by a European Research Council (‘ERC’), which should enjoy a high degree of autonomy to develop very high-level frontier research at European level, building on excellence in Europe and raising its profile at international level.

The European initiative on TSE has, driven by existing scientific excellence, mobilised a great number of European teams and consolidated very fruitful collaborations both in human and animal TSEs.

The European initiative on TSE, driven by existing scientific excellence, has mobilised a great number of European teams and consolidated very fruitful collaborations both in human and animal TSE.

There remains much scope for mutual learning between centres of excellence to build a co-ordinated and high quality approach.