European Research Council (ERC)
The ERC’s mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. Being ‘investigator-driven’, or ‘bottom-up’, in nature, the ERC approach allows researchers to identify new opportunities and directions in any field of research, rather than being led by priorities set by politicians.
Your NCP contact for this programme
Margot Beereboom
margot.beereboom@fwo.be
+32 2 550 15 76
About this programme
The ERC’s mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-initiated frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence. Being ‘investigator-driven’, or ‘bottom-up’, in nature, the ERC approach allows researchers to identify new opportunities and directions in any field of research, rather than being led by priorities set by politicians.
Five ERC frontier research grants will be available under the ERC Work Programme 2020.
- Starting Grants
- Consolidator Grants
- Advanced Grants
- Synergy Grants
- Proof of Concept Grants
The ERC Scientific Council has analysed the pilot phase of the ERC Synergy Grant (calls were made under Work Programmes 2012 and 2013) and decided to reintroduce the call for Synergy grants under the Work Programme 2018.
ERC Principal Investigators will also continue to be able to apply for the Proof of Concept Grant, first introduced under the revised Work Programme 2011.
Latest news
ERC MSCA SME Instrument Widening
General Block Exemption Regulation (State aid) – consultation
On 11 May the consultation "Targeted review of the General Block Exemption Regulation (GBER/State aid): extended scope for national funds to be combined with certain Union programmes" was launched. Objective: to ensure that national and EU funds can be combined seamlessly under the new Multiannual Financial Framework without undermini... read more
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Work Programme & Calls
Infosheets
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Related links
Related links are easy pointers towards external information. We curate the list, but are not liable for the destinations.
- Database ERC panel members
- ERC projects and statistics
- EURAXESS portal: ERC PhD and postdoc vacancies
- Citizen science in ERC projects
- ERC EGD projects – Cordis Results Pack
- Association of ERC Grantees
- ERC COVID-19 portal
- ERC projects COVID-19
- ERC
- ERC FAQs (COVID-19 included)
- Horizon2020 Participant Portal - ERC
- ERC gender projects - Cordis Results Pack
Documents
Documents contain additional information related to this programme, and are similar to related links.
- Evaluation study of the European framework programmes for research and innovation for excellent science - Horizon 2020 : phase 1 final study report
- Study Qualitative evaluation of completed projects funded by the ERC 2019
- Security research in ERC grants awarded during FP7 and Horizon 2020
- Pathways to an ERC Grant: Learning from Success and Failure - Jørgen Carling
- ERC research and outreach to the wider public
- ERC Virtual Venture Fair
- Successful participation of stakeholders in Flanders in Horizon 2020
Testimonial
Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations
Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
