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ITALY: STARS Grants 2019 (all research areas)

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  • Deadline: 2 April 2019

Through the call for proposals STARS Grants 2019 the University of Padova financially supports individual research projects without any predetermined priority for the duration of two years. Candidates may apply in one of the 25 scientific research areas corresponding to the three European Research Council (ERC) research domains: PE - Physical Sciences and Engineering, LS – Life Sciences, SH – Social Sciences and Humanities.

Programme objectives

The main goal is to increase the participation of the University in international competitive calls, specifically the ERC ones: STARS GRANTS 2019 grantees are committed to submitting an ERC application.

Scientific excellence will be the sole criterion to evaluate proposals.

Who can apply

We look for Principal Investigators (PIs) of any age and nationality who wish to carry out an innovative, ambitious and feasible research project at a hosting department at the University of Padova.

What we fund

The programme is characterized by three funding schemes:

  • STARS Starting Grants (STARS-StG) for excellent PIs who are about to establish their own research team and/or to start their own independent research;
  • STARS Consolidator Grants (STARS-CoG) for excellent PIs, who are already conducting research at the University of Padova and are consolidating their own research team and/or their own independent research;
  • STARS Wild Card Grants (STARS-WiC) for PIs who submitted a project to the 2017 and 2018 ERC calls, indicated the University of Padova as their Host Institution, obtained a final score of "A" but were not funded due to budget limits.

How and When to apply

The STARS GRANTS 2019 call will be open from 10 January to 2 April 2019, 1 p.m. (Italian time zone).

The applications must be submitted via the on line system upon registration: https://pica.cineca.it/.

Information about the submission procedure, templates and support documentation is available in the “Guide for applicants and proposal templates” enclosed to the call.

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