Deadline: 31-Aug-21
European Commission is calling for proposals for European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they have already established research leaders with a recognized track record of research achievements.
The ERC aims to use procedures that maintain the focus on excellence, encourage initiative and combine simplicity and flexibility with accountability. The ERC is continuously looking for ways to improve its procedures in order to fulfil these principles.
Funding Information
- Advanced Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 500 000 for a period of 5 years (the maximum award is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration).
- However, up to an additional EUR 1 000 000 can be requested in the proposal to cover
- eligible “start-up” costs for Principal Investigators moving to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or
- the purchase of major equipment and/or
- access to large facilities and/or
- other major experimental and field work costs, excluding personnel costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- All proposals must be complete, readable, and accessible. They must be submitted by eligible Principal Investigators as defined below before the relevant call deadline. A complete proposal needs to include all parts or sections. Proposals which do not meet these criteria may be declared inadmissible.
- Applications where the Principal Investigator proposes to commit less time in the EU or an Associated Country or to the project than the minimum percentages set out in the section “Minimum time commitment” will be declared ineligible. If it becomes clear before, during or after the peer review evaluation phase, that one or more of the admissibility or eligibility criteria have not been met, the proposal will be declared inadmissible or ineligible and it will be rejected.
- All scientific fields are eligible for ERC funding.
- The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Associated Country.
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