ERC 2016 budget and Grant Competitions Dates annoucement
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The European Commission adopted on July 28 the ERC Work Programme 2016. It forsees EURO 1.67 billion for grants to top researchers from anywhere in the world who are ready to come or to stay in Europe to pursue their breakthrough ideas (ERC Press Release, July 29, 2015).
Set up in 2007 by the European Commission, the European Research Council (ERC) is the first European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. Every year it selects and funds the very best individual scientists to run five-year projects in Europe. Competitions are open to researchers of any nationality, age or scientific area, including humanities and social sciences, hosted in a university or research centre based in the EU or in one of the countries associated to Horizon 2020. The applications are evaluated and selected after a peer-review process involving every year hundreds of renowned scientists coming from all over the world. The scientific quality of the proposal, aiming for excellence, is the only selection criterion.
The ERC operates according to an "investigator-driven" (or "bottom-up") approach, allowing researchers to identify new opportunities in any field of research, without thematic priorities. From 2007 to 2013, under the seventh EU's Research Framework Programme (FP7), the ERC's budget was €7.5 billion. Under the first pillar ("Excellent science") of the new EU Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020), Horizon 2020, the ERC has had a budget of approximately €1.6 billion for each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The new calls for ERC 2016 are:
- Starting Grants deadline: 17 November 2015
- Consolidator Grants deadline: 2 February 2016
- Advanced Grants deadline: 24 May 2016
(Source: ERC Press Release, July 29, 2015)
! The Research Office organizes an information event on September 8 addressed to all EPFL people interested by the next Starting Grant call: Check the details here !