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Snapshot overview: Offers support to researchers with 7-12 years of experience
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Name: European Research Centre (ERC) Consolidator Grants
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Institution/ DG/ Agency responsible at EU-level: European Research Council (ERC)
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Work programme: Yearly
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Programme: Grants
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Programme budget: EUR 595 million
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Project budget: EUR 2 million for a period of up to 5 years, but additional EUR 1 million can be made available to cover costs for researchers moving from a third country
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Type of funding : Bottom-up
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Target participants: Scientists / researchers (7-12 years post PhD)
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Programme scope: Mixed, depending on calls
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Participant criteria:
- Researchers of any nationality with 7-12 years of experience since completion of PhD (extensions are possible under certain circumstances) as well as scientific track record and an excellent research proposal.
- Research must be conducted in a public or private research organisation (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.
- Applications for an ERC grant must be submitted by a single Principal Investigator (PI) in conjunction with and on behalf of their Host Institution, called the applicant legal entity.
- ERC grants support projects carried out by an individual researcher who can employ researchers of any nationality as team members.
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Project duration: 5 years
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Average time from submission to project kick-off: 7 months
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R&D stage: Early stage
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Intellectual property: IP stays with researcher
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Project database: EU Funding & Tender Opportunities portal – Single Electronic Data Interchange Area (SEDIA)
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Status: Call opens on 28 September 2022. The deadline is on 2 February 2023.
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