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European Research Council (ERC)

The European Research Council (ERC) awards grants, through a challenging European competition, for excellent scientific research across all fields, initiated/driven by investigators. It thus supports  ‘bottom-up’ research without predetermined priorities of a ground-breaking nature.

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Margot Beereboom

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About this programme

The European Research Council (ERC) awards grants, through a challenging European competition, for excellent scientific research across all fields, initiated/driven by investigators. It thus supports  ‘bottom-up’ research without predetermined priorities of a ground-breaking nature.

There are three types of grants which each support another phase in a researcher’s career, going from two years after the award of the PhD to an established research leader (Starting, Consolidator and Advanced grants). The Synergy grants address ambitious research problems with a group of two to four Principal Investigators (PIs) and their teams. The Proof of Concept grant is short-term complementary funding for recipients of the previous four main types of grants.

The 2021 work programme contains three grant types (Starting, Consolidator and Advanced grants) with each its own call for proposals. 

The 2022 work programme includes four calls for four types of ERC grants: Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy grants plus three calls for complementary funding, two for Proof of Concept grants and a call for the Public Engagement with Research Award.

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Latest news for this programme

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Preparations for ERC 2023 work programme

The current ERC work programme 2022 was published in July. The ERC Scientific Council will still need to look into the overall 2023 work programme, but discussions have been taken place on sub-topics. The ERC Scientific Council needs to approve the work programme followed by the adoption by the European Commission before it can be published. At th... read more 

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Number of submitted proposals for ERC Advanced Grant 2021 call

The ERC-2021-ADG call closed on 31 August 2021. A total of 1735 proposals were submitted in response to the ERC 2021 Advanced Grant Call (ERC-2021-ADG). The number of proposals for each domain is shown below: Physical Sciences & Engineering (Panels: PE1 - PE11) 764 Life Sciences (Panels: LS1 - LS9) 499 Social Sciences & Humanities (Pan... read more 

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10.000th ERC grantee: “How has the European Research Council transformed sc...

Since the start of European Research Council (ERC) in 2007 a lot of investigator-driven frontier research across all fields has been funded. The celebration of the 10.000th ERC grantee today provides an opportunity to look at what the impact of ERC funded research has been. Fifteen projects are highlighted which have contributed to scientific resea... read more 

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Number of submitted proposals for ERC Consolidator Grant 2021 call

The ERC-2021-COG - Call closed on 20 April 2021.A total of 2.648 proposals were submitted in response to the ERC 2021 Consolidator Grant Call (ERC-2021-COG). The number of proposals for each domain is shown below: Physical Sciences and Engineering (Panels PE1 to PE11): 1.112 Life Sciences (Panels LS1 to LS9):... read more 

Upcoming events

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ERC Advanced grants 2022 call information session

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Mon
22
This information session on European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants 2022 call for proposals is organised by the National Contact Points (NCPs) for ERC in Belgium (NCP-FNRS and NCP Flanders) to inform potential applicants and host institutions. It is also aimed at researchers who are considering applying in the future. The ERC Advanced Gran... read more 

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Testimonial

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Autoship - a new and durable way of freight transport

Autoship is, as the name suggests, an acronym for autonomous ship. Just like with self-driving cars, the possibilities of an unmanned boat seem endless. It can create more efficient freight transport, around the clock deliveries and these are just a few of the examples. The project has two societal challenges.

At first, De Vlaamse Waterweg was a bit hesitant as their experience with FP7 or Horizon 2020 projects was limited and they had not been very successful up until then. The fact that they were already doing basic research on the topic of autonomous boats, and the administrative help of NCP FLanders helped De Vlaamse waterweg to cross the line and get involved.

 

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