1 Helga Nowotny is former president of the ERC and professor emerita at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. helga.nowotny@wwtf.at jana.kolar@cericeric.eu.
2 Jana Kolar is executive director of Central European Research Infrastructure Consortium and a member of the governing board of the EIT. helga.nowotny@wwtf.at jana.kolar@cericeric.eu.