HORIZON 2020/ CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR ERC ADVANCED GRANTS

Background                                                         Funding: up to EUR 2.5 million per grant

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.

ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains.
The ERC Advanced Grant funding targets researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right.

Eligibility

-pioneering frontier research in any field of science, engineering and scholarship
-candidates can be of any nationality, any age, 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

Size of grant

Up to EUR 2.5 M per grant (in some circumstances up to EUR€ 3.5 M per grant)


Deadline: 01 September 2016

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