Severo Ochoa Excellence Program
In 2011 the Government of Spain launched the new Severo Ochoa Program, aimed at identifying those Spanish world-class research institutes placed among the best in their field.
No more than ten centers per year —up to a maximum of forty by 2015—will be accredited as Severo Ochoa Excellence Centers, recognizing their outstanding research quality and talent attraction capabilities. The selected institutions will be awarded a funding package and a number of additional benefits.
The assessment is conducted by three international panels integrated by world-class scientists and chaired by Nobel Laureates. In the 2011 selection process, a total of 80 experts have been involved, with a distribution by areas of 31 experts for Life Sicences and Medicine, 40 experts for Physical Sciences and Engineering, 9 experts for Social Sciences and Humanities, and chaired by Robert Huber, (Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie), Roger Myerson (Chicago University) and Samuel Ting (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), covering all fields of science and engineering. Thus, 8 centres have been awarded as <<Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence>> representing world leading institution with a leading edge Research Program and an internationally competitive Human Resource Program (2012-2015), and the only one whose research field is focused on Mathematics.
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