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What is the ERC?
The ERC is part of the European Commission's Seventh
Framework Programme for Research and Technological
Development. The ERC, which is also known as the FP7 "Ideas"
Programme, is the first pan-European funding agency for
investigator-driven frontier research and has funding of
€7.51 billion (2007-2013). The ERC aims to stimulate
research excellence by supporting and encouraging the
very best, truly creative scientists, scholars and engineers to be
adventurous and take risks in their research. In their ERC grants,
researchers are encouraged to go beyond established
frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of disciplines.
What type of grants does the ERC fund?
The ERC has two main funding schemes, Starting and
Advanced Grants. These both operate on a “bottom-up” basis
across all research fields (apart from nuclear energy
research), without predetermined priorities. They fund
projects led by a Principal Investigator (PI) and (if they
wish) their team. Excellence is the sole criterion for
funding, and the peer review criteria are the excellence of the PI
and the excellence of the research project.
ERC Starting Independent Researcher
Grants (ERC Starting Grants)
- Objective:
The objective is to provide
critical and adequate support to the independent careers of excellent
researchers, whatever their nationality, located in or moving to the
EU Member States and FP7 Associated Countries*, who are at the stage of establishing
or consolidating their own independent research team or programme.
- Further Information on
Starting Grants
ERC Advanced Investigator Grants (ERC Advanced
Grants)
- Objective:
The objective is to encourage and support
excellent, innovative investigator-initiated research projects by
leading advanced investigators whatever their nationality, located
in or moving to the EU Member States and
FP7 Associated Countries*. This funding stream
targets researchers who have already established
themselves as being scientifically independent and
world-class leaders in their own right. ERC Advanced
Grants provide an opportunity to established scientists
and scholars to pursue frontier research of their
choice. Applicants for Advanced Grants are expected to
be active researchers who have a track record of
significant research achievements in the last 10 years.
- Further Information on
Advanced Grants
*FP7 Associated Countries are currently: Albania, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Croatia, Faroe Islands, FYR Macedonia, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Montenegro,
Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, and Turkey. More associated
countries may join in the future.
Further Information on the ERC
Structure and Objectives.
ERC poster (.pdf)
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