Three months after taking office, the President of the European Research Council (ERC), Mauro Ferrari, handed in his resignation on Tuesday 7 April to the President of the European Commission.
The institution, through its spokesperson in charge of Innovation and Research, regretted this decision “at this early stage of his mandate and at these times of unprecedented crisis in which the role of EU research is key”.
In a statement released by the Financial Times, Mr Ferrari said he was...