The European Research Council (ERC) has announced another 102 Proof of Concept grants, bringing the total number of researchers receiving such funding to 240 in last year’s three competition rounds. Each grant is worth €150,000 and helps ERC…

The 2023 Proof of Concept Grants will enable researchers from all scientific disciplines to carry out innovative research projects and bridge the gap from basic science to applied science. The funding will help 240 researchers from 20 different…

Op-Ed by Ben Feringa and Sir Paul Nurse

The ERC Consolidator Grants 2024 call closed for applications on 12 December 2023. These are the preliminary data on the submitted proposals: The ERC received 2,313 proposals. This is an increase of 8.6% compared to the 2023 call when 2,130…

The ERC has supported frontier research into and using Artificial Intelligence (AI) since its inception and sees that recent advances, particularly in Generative AI, will bring profound changes both to society at large and the research process.The…

Out of 2,130 candidates, the European Research Council (ERC) has selected 308 researchers for this year’s Consolidator Grants. The funding will support excellent scientists and scholars at the career stage where they may still be consolidating their…

As a new set of ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded, we take a look at what types of research are funded this time. The entire list of projects being extremely varied, we picked out a few to give you a taste of what interesting avenues will be…

ERC President Maria Leptin's speech at the Coimbra Group High-Level Seminar on Research Policy, Brussels:“Achieving Excellence at Universities: What does it mean in times of multiple crises?”

The ERC Starting Grants 2024 call closed for applications on 7 November 2023.These are the preliminary data on submitted proposals:The ERC received 3,474 applications. This marks an increase of 29% compared to the previous call in 2022. The highest…