ERC Advanced Grants 2024

14 June 2024

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.

Are you an established researcher who wants long-term funding to conduct ground-breaking research project with lasting impact? The ERC Advanced Grant could be for you.

Application Deadlines: 29 August 2024, 17:00 Brussels time

Fund: Up to a maximum of EUR 2,500,000

Research Area: All scientific fields

Duration: 5 years

Eligibility:

  1. Principal Investigators (PIs):
  2. may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application.
  3. are expected to be active researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements.

Note: All Principal Investigators funded through an ERC Advanced Grant must spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in an EU Member State or Associated Country and a minimum of 30% of their working time on the ERC project.

  • No specific eligibility criteria with respect to the academic requirements are foreseen.
  • Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation (known as a Host Institution/HI).
  • The Host Institution (Applicant Legal Entity):
  • must engage and host the Principal Investigator for at least the duration of the project, as defined in the grant agreement.
  • must either be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country as a legal entity created under national law, or it may be an international European research organisation (such as CERN, EMBL, etc.), the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) or any other entity created under EU law.

Note: PI does not necessarily need to be working at the Host Institution at the time when the proposal is submitted.

  • ERC grants support projects carried out by an individual researcher who can employ researchers of any nationality as team members. It is also possible to have one or more team members located in a non-European country.

How to Apply?

ERC grant applications can only be submitted in response to a Call for Proposals in the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

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