Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant could be for you. The 2025 call opened last month and closes on October 15th, 2024.
ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators in all scientific fields at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or program.
ERC Starting Grants in brief:
For researchers of any nationality with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD or an equivalent doctoral degree
Applications can be made in any field of research
Research must be conducted in a public or private research organization (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 EU Member States or Associated Countries.
Funding per grant: up to €1.5 million. However, an additional €1 million can be made available to cover eligible “start-up” costs for researchers moving from a third country to the EU or an associated country and/or the purchase of major equipment and/or access to large facilities and/or other major experimental and fieldwork costs.
Duration: up to 5 years
Sole evaluation criterion: scientific excellence of researcher and research proposal
Calls for proposals: published once a year
For information on other ERC grant call dates, see our page here.