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Reference: EU0010000408
European Commission DG Research
European Research Council (ERC) Grants
next deadline: 2010-10-14
European Research Council (ERC) grants are available to support researchers in carrying out frontier research projects.
The European Research Council (ERC) is a European funding initiative, designed to support the best scientists, engineers and scholars in Europe. Its mandate is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence.
There are two types of ERC grants:
1. ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant (ERC Starting Grant) Support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. It will support the creation of excellent new research teams and will strengthen others that have been recently created.
In brief:
Research proposal: pioneering frontier research in any field of science, engineering and scholarship
Principal Investigator: candidates can be of any nationality, and must have obtained their PhD (or equivalent degree more than three years but less than eight years prior to the opening date of the relevant call for proposals. Justified extensions of this period may be accepted.
Host organisation: legally recognised public or private research organisation situated in an EU Member State or an Associated Country. The Associated Countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein, FYR of Macedonia, Norway, Republic of Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Funding: up to EUR 2.0 M per grant
Duration: up to 5 years
Calls for proposals: published annually in summer (normally late July each year) with deadlines in autumn
2. ERC Advanced Investigator Grant (ERC Advanced Grant)
encourages and supports excellent, innovative investigator-initiated research projects by leading advanced investigators across the EU Member States and Associated Countries. This funding scheme complements the Starting Grant scheme by targeting the population of researchers who have already established themselves as being independent research leaders in their own right.
In brief:
Research proposal: pioneering frontier research in any field of science, engineering and scholarship
Principal Investigator: candidates can be of any nationality, must be scientifically independent and have a recent research track-record and profile which identifies them as leaders in their respective field(s) of research
Host organisation: legally recognised public or private research organisation situated in an EU Member State or an Associated Country. The Associated Countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina , Croatia, Iceland, Israel, Faroe Islands, Liechtenstein, FYR of Macedonia, Norway, Republic of Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Funding: up to EUR 3.5 M per grant
Duration: up to 5 years
Calls for proposals: published annually in autumn with deadlines in spring
How to apply?
An ERC grant application should be submitted by a single PI with the support, and on behalf of, the host institution. It can be submitted only in response to an open call for proposals via the web-based Electronic Proposal Submission Service (EPSS).
Contact your national contact point for further info: http://erc.europa.eu/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.ncpList
Deadlines:
Coordination and Support Actions:
Starting Grant deadlines: 14/10/2010, 9/11/2010, 24/11/2010
Advanced Grants for Physical Sciences and Engineering: 9/02/2011
Advanced Grants for Social Sciences and Humanities: 6/04/2011
Advanced Grants for Life Sciences: 2/11/2010, 10/03/2011
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