This grant competition is targeted at early-career research leaders, of any age, with 2-12 years of experience after their PhD. The researchers can be of any nationality as long as they are working, or moving to work, in Europe.
The competition is open to proposals in any field of research (from Socials Sciences and Humanities to Life Sciences and Physical Sciences). The available call budget is 660 Mio Euro.
An email alert will be sent out on 20 July to announce the call and its deadlines. The three deadlines will be throughout this autumn (depending on scientific domain).
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Background: Set up in 2007, the European Research Council (ERC) aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by supporting the very best, creative researchers. The ERC funds both top senior scientists (”ERC Advanced Grants”) and younger, early-career research leaders (”ERC Starting Grants”). Scientific excellence is the only selection criterion in the ERC’s peer reviewed grant competitions. The ERC operates according to an “investigator-driven”, or “bottom- up”, approach and there are no thematic priorities.
The ERC has a total budget of € 7.5 billion (2007-2013) and is the newest, pioneering component of the EU’s 7th Research Framework Programme.
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