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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.

The 2024 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 and a prize contest for the Public Engagement with Research award.

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2023-09-05 ERC

Evaluation results - ERC Starting Grant 2023 call

The results of the 2023 European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant call (call deadline 25 October 2022) were published. Starting Grants are open to researchers with 2-7 years of experience since completion of PhD (extensions are possible under certain documented circumstances), a scientific track record showing great pr... read more

2023-08-21 ERC MSCA RI Health

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2023-08-14 ERC ERC

Evaluation results – ERC Proof of Concept grant 2023 call – 2nd cut-off 20...

Principal Investigators with a main European Research Council grant that is ongoing 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

2023-07-10 ERC

ERC Dashboard and new database of ERC panel members released

The ERC dashboard gives more information related to ERC funded projects and evaluated proposals. Filter options allow to filter among others by funding scheme, country, year and panel. The ERC Dashboard can be found under related links ‘ERC projects & statistics’ via the Horizon Europe ERC programme page on the NCP Flanders website... read more