Overview
Donor: | European Commission (EC) - HORIZON |
Application procedure: | Online Application |
Donor base: | Belgium |
Reference number: | ERC-2025-STG |
Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business |
Deadline: | 15.10.2024 |
Financial details
Grant size: | Large - more than $1,000,000 |
Minimum grant size: | - |
Total available budget: | - |
Funding type: | Grants |
Maximum grant size: | 1.500.000€ |
Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
Africa
Tunisia
Asia
Israel, Turkey
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine
Description
1) Objective
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 research proposal.
2) Eligibility
The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Horizon Associated Country. Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. The host institution must engage and host the Principal Investigator for at least the
duration of the project, as defined in the grant agreement.
3) Location
Actions must take place in EU member states or Associated Country.
4) Budget
Starting Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of €1,500,000 for a period of 5 years. The maximum size of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration. (This does not apply to ongoing projects). Additional funding up to €1,000,000 can be requested in the proposal to cover the following eligible costs when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work: (a) “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 (b) the purchase of major equipment, and/or (c) access to large facilities, and/or (d) other major experimental and field work costs, excluding personnel costs.
5) Application
The submission deadline is 15 October 2024. All applications must be submitted via the online portal.