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.
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About this programme
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.
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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- Database ERC panel members
- ERC projects and statistics
- EURAXESS portal: ERC PhD and postdoc vacancies
- Showcase of citizen science by ERC grantees and other EU-funded projects
- Citizen Science and Frontier Research: ERC Annual Event 2022
- Citizen science in ERC projects
- ERC work programme 2022 calls webinar
- ERC communication guidance
- ERC open science guidance
- ERC ethics guidance
- ERC work programme 2023
- ERC FAQs
- ERC Gender Equality Plan 2021-2027
- ERC EGD projects – Cordis Results Pack
- ERC
- ERC projects COVID-19
- ERC COVID-19 portal
- Association of ERC Grantees
- ERC gender projects - Cordis Results Pack
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Testimonial
ROOT - Rolling Out OSNMA for the secure synchronization of Telecom networks
The ROOT project obtained funding under Horizon 2020 topic ‘EGNSS applications fostering societal resilience and protecting the environment’. The project, which ran from November 2020 to July 2022, aimed to demonstrate the benefit of Galileo OSNMA signal to increase the robustness of critical telecom infrastructures.
The Flanders-based company Septentrio contributed substantially to completing this objective together with the other ROOT partners. The results of the project partially close a gap in the security of telecommunication networks dependent on satellite-derived time, with indirect benefits in curbing illegal attempts to disrupt network services.
