Scientists from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico can temporarily join ERC-funded teams in Europe thanks to the Implementing Arrangements (IAs) signed between local funding agencies and the European Commission.
Research visits can be either one-offs and long-term (6-12 months), or multiple short-term visits (for Argentinian and Brazilian researchers).
The opportunity is open to:
Top Argentinian scientists with an active National Scientific Technical Research Council (CONICET) project and at least ten years of full-time research experience after being awarded a PhD degree; More here
Brazilian post-doctoral grantees from FAPs, CAPES and CNPq; More here (CONFAP) and here (CNPq);
Mexican National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Research and Postdoctoral Fellows.
Check the calls launched by the LAC funding agencies for more details.
How does it work?
In practice, ERC launches an annual Call for expression of interest amongst ERC grantees to inquire about their interest to host scientists from those 3 LAC countries in their research teams. The list is then sent to the Latin American institutions who inform their scientists about the opportunities. The pre-selection of the scientists is done by the LAC funding agencies, without any ERC intervention (neither in the selection criteria nor in the selection procedure).
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Are you interested in the opportunities provided by the European Research Council (ERC) to (young) Brazilian and Latin American and the Caribbean researchers?
Read our guide: Guide on the ERC for Brazil & LAC researchers
About ERC
Set up in 2007 by the EU, the European Research Council is the first pan-European funding organization for frontier research. It aims to stimulate scientific excellence in Europe by encouraging competition for funding between the very best, creative researchers of any nationality and age. The ERC also strives to attract top researchers from anywhere in the world to come to Europe. It funds young, early-career top researchers ('ERC Starting grants'), already independent excellent scientists ('ERC Consolidator Grants'), and senior research leaders ('ERC Advanced Grants'). With its Synergy Grants, the ERC also supports groups of two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) working together and bringing different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems.
LAC and the ERC
Read interviews we held with LAC researchers funded by the ERC at https://bit.ly/LACandERC
You'll also find interviews with LAC researchers who were hired in ERC teams to do their PhDs or post-doc and with others who went on short-term stays under the implementing arrangements between the European Commission and their countries.