Press Release: Commissioner Potocnik meets new Scientific Council at its inaugural meeting

Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, was to meet the new 22-member Scientific Council, which had been established to head up the future European Research Council, at its inaugural meeting in Brussels, on 18 October 2005. The European Research Council was to fund the best of European science and scholarship, as assessed by peer review, starting from 2007. The new Scientific Council - made up of scientists, engineers, scholars and research leaders – was to play a key role in strengthening the quality and autonomy of scientific advice underpinning the research funding decisions made.