Background: Maximum Grant Amount: EUR 15 000 000
ERC Synergy Grants are intended to enable a small group of PIs and their teams to bring together complementary skills, knowledge, and resources in new ways, in order to jointly address a research problem.
The aim is to promote substantial advances in the frontiers of knowledge, and to encourage
new productive lines of enquiry and new methods and techniques, including unconventional
approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines.
Eligibility:
- PIs applying for an ERC Synergy Grant should be active and innovative researchers who combine their
skills and disciplines in new ways for the proposed frontier research. No specific
eligibility criteria with respect to their academic requirements are foreseen.
- The ERC Synergy Grant is open to researchers of any age or nationality residing in any
country in the world at the time of their application.
- PIs have to establish and conduct their research activity in a Member State or Associated
Country.
Deadline: 10 January 2013
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