25/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - European Research Commissioner Janez Potoènik took part in the inauguration day of the Executive Agency of the European Research Council (ERC) in Brussels on Thursday 24 September. The ERC, which was officially set up in December 2007, became fully operational on 15 July 2009. At the launch day, the commissioner said that, since its creation, the ERC had already funded more than 600 research projects worth a total of €900 million. “In its short life, ERC is...