European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants

European Research Council (ERC) grants are available to support researchers in carrying out frontier research projects. The European Research Council (ERC) is a European funding initiative, designed to support the best scientists, engineers and scholars in Europe. Its mandate 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.

ERC Advanced Grants allow exceptional established research leaders of any nationality and any age to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields or other domains.

The ERC Advanced Grant funding targets researchers who have already established themselves as independent research leaders in their own right.

Research proposal: pioneering frontier research in any field of science, engineering and scholarship
Researchers: candidates can be of any nationality, any age, must be scientifically independent and have a recent research track-record and profile which identifies them as leaders in their respective field(s) of research
Host organisation: legally recognised public or private research organisation situated in an EU Member State or an Associated Country. The Associated Countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Israel, Faroe Islands, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Switzerland (partial association), Faroe Islands, Ukraine, Tunisia and Turkey.
Funding: up to EUR 2.5 M per grant (in some circumstances up to € 3.5 M per grant)
Duration: up to 5 years
Calls for proposals: published annually

How to apply?
An ERC grant application should be submitted by a single PI with the support, and on behalf of, the host institution. It can be submitted only in response to an open call for proposals via the web-based Electronic Proposal Submission Service (EPSS).

Contact your national contact point for further info: http://erc.europa.eu/national-contact-points

Deadlines:
- Physical Sciences and Engineering: 1 September 2016, 17:00:00 (CET).
- Social Sciences and Humanities: 1 September 2016, 17:00:00 (CET).
- Life Sciences: 1 September 2016, 17:00:00 (CET).

Find out more: http://erc.europa.eu