H2020 Call for proposals for ERC Consolidator Grant 2018

The European Commission has published a new ERC call under the main pillar Excellent Science (ES) of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon 2020. The call for proposals for ERC Consolidator Grant - ERC-2018-COG has a budget of € 550,000,000. Deadline for submitting applications is February 15, 2018.

ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. For more detailed information and documents please click here.

The European Research Council supports frontier research, cross disciplinary proposals and pioneering ideas in new and emerging fields which introduce unconventional and innovative approaches. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence.