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Horizon Europe is the main Research and Innovation Funding Programme of the European Commission.

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Horizon 2020 is the previous Funding Programme. There are no longer calls, but projects can run until 2024.

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Digital Europe is a Funding Programme focused on bringing digital technology to businesses, citizens and administrations.

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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.

Your NCP contact for this programme

Margot Beereboom

margot.beereboom@fwo.be

+32 2 550 15 76

About this programme

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 2023 work programme includes four calls for four types of ERC grants: Starting, Consolidator, Advanced and Synergy grants plus a call for complementary funding for Proof of Concept grants.

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2023-06-02 ERC

Number of submitted proposals for ERC Advanced Grant 2023 call

In response to the ERC 2023 Advanced Grants call (ERC-2023-ADG), with call deadline 23 May 2023, a total of 1829 proposals have been submitted. The number of proposals for each domain is shown below: Physical Sciences and Engineering (Panels PE1 to PE11): 792 Life Sciences (Panels LS1 to LS9): 509 Social Sciences and H... read more

2023-05-08 ERC

Evaluation results – ERC Proof of Concept grant 2023 call – 1st cut-off 24...

Principal Investigators with a European Research Council grant that is running or ended less than 12 months before 1 January of the call year are eligible to participate in an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and... read more

2023-05-03 ERC

What to expect in 2024 in the evaluation of ERC grant proposals

Besides announced changes in the evaluation forms and processes, new panels and the introduction of lump sum funding for Advanced grants further details have been shared on research assessment, the evaluation process, lump sum funding, as well as the tentative schedule of the upcoming grant competitions. The 2024 ERC Work Programme is expected to b... read more

2023-03-31 ERC

ERC 2024 work programme – first novelties announced

The publication of the European Research Council (ERC) 2024 work programme is expected in July 2024. The changes in the panel titles, subtitles and descriptors of the 28 evaluation panels for the 2024 ERC calls have been announced as of now to allow applicants to prepare. The main changes are in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) where a new... read more