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ERC Consolidator Grant

Funder
European Commission · Horizon Europe · European Research Council
Award amount
Up to €2,000,000
Deadline
January 12, 2027
Eligible countries
European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global

Summary

Open EU call topic ERC-2027-COG · HORIZON ERC Grants. Part of call ERC-2027-COG: Call for Proposals for ERC Consolidator Grant. Next deadline 2027-01-12. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/ERC-2027-COG

Scope:

Objectives The Consolidator Grant supports excellent Principal Investigators who are consolidating their own independent research team or programme. A Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of research independence. Size of ERC Consolidator Grants Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 2 000 000 for a period of 60 months. The maximum amount of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration. Additional funding up to EUR 1 000 000 *1 can be requested to cover further eligible costs for any cost category when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work. The request for additional funding must be duly justified in the proposal. The maximum amount of the grant is reduced pro rata temporis for proposals of shorter duration. Additional funding is not subject to pro rata temporis reduction for projects of shorter duration. Both the grant amount and any additional funding requested are assessed during evaluation. *1 Except for Principal Investigators in Starting, Consolidator, or Advanced Grant re-locating to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere to take up their ERC grant. In this case, the maximum additional funding shall be EUR 2 000 000. Applicants requesting more than EUR 1 000 000 as additional funding must be based outside the EU or an Associated Country at the time of the call deadline for the increased maximum additional funding to apply. Profile of the ERC Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator The Principal Investigators will be eligible for a Consolidator Grant if they have defended their PhD in the five to fifteen-year period preceding the 1st of January 2027. Cut-off dates:…

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This is an ERC Consolidator Grant call. Read our plain-language guide to the mechanism: who is eligible, typical budgets and how applications are reviewed.

What European Union reviewers look for

  • Most Horizon Europe calls score three criteria (the ERC uses excellence alone). Excellence: clarity and ambition of the objectives, and the soundness of the methodology.
  • Impact: credible pathways to the expected outcomes, and measures to communicate and exploit results.
  • Quality and efficiency of implementation: the work plan, resources and the consortium's capacity.

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