Starting Grants
Solicitation Title: Starting Grants
Event Type: Early Career
Funding Amount: Up to EUR 1 500 000
Sponsor Deadline: Thursday, January 13, 2022
Solicitation Link: https://erc.europa.eu/funding/starting-grants
Overview
<p>The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.</p> <p>The fundamental activity of the ERC, via its main frontier research grants is to provide attractive, long-term funding to support excellent investigators and their research teams to pursue groundbreaking, high-gain/high-risk research. Research funded by the ERC is expected to lead to advances at the frontiers of knowledge and to set a clear and inspirational target for frontier research across Europe.</p> <p>The ERC also awards complementary funding for the Principal Investigators funded by its main grants, in order to fulfill its mission of supporting new ways of working in the scientific world and to raise the profile of frontier research in Europe as well as the visibility of ERC programmes to researchers across Europe and internationally.</p> <p>Applications can be made in any field of research.</p>
Solicitation Limitations: <p>The Principal Investigators shall have been awarded their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to 1 January 2022. Cut-off dates: PhD awarded from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2019 (inclusive).</p> <p><strong>Location</strong></p> <p><strong></strong>Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation (known as a Host Institution/HI). It could be the HI where the applicant already works, or any other HI located in one of the<a href="https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/countries_en"> EU Member States</a> or Associated Countries</p> <p></p> Other Information:<p>Up to EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years. Additional funding up to EUR 1,000,000.</p> <p>A competitive Starting Grant Principal Investigator must have already shown the potential for research independence and evidence of maturity, for example by having produced at least one important publication as main author or without the participation of their PhD supervisor. Applicant Principal Investigators should also be able to demonstrate a promising track record of early achievements appropriate to their research field and career stage, including significant publications (as main author) in major international peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journals, or in the leading international peer-reviewed journals of their respective field. They may also demonstrate a record of invited presentations in well-established international conferences, granted patents, awards, prizes, etc.</p>Last Updated:
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