When starting their projects, ERC grantees often struggle to recruit their team members. Publishing vacancies in ERC teams on a truly pan-European platform can increase the chance to find the suitable candidate.
Several countries have also set-up Fellowship to visit ERC grantee’s team to help researchers developing their potential before applying for an ERC grant at no cost on the ERC grantee.
ERC grantees can recruit talent from around the world to their research teams. This is further encouraged through a set of international agreements with non-European counterparts of the ERC, promoting young researchers to come on research visits and temporarily join ERC teams in Europe.
There are 4 routes to develop your team:
- Publish vacancies in ERC teams: ERC grantees can use their funding to recruit other researchers and team members for their project. On average, each team has 4-5 members. Since its inception, ERC funding has helped create jobs for thousands of researchers.
- Visiting Fellowships Programmes: ERC has invited relevant national and regional authorities in Europe to fund potential ERC candidates from the country or the region to visit the teams of existing ERC Principal Investigators. The purpose is to offer these potential candidates an opportunity to broaden and strengthen their research profile and vision in an internationally competitive research environment before applying for an ERC grant.
- Implementing Arrangements: International agreements with non-EU funding agencies and science ministries to support researchers to temporarily join ERC teams in Europe.
- Mentoring Initiative : the mentoring initiative will boost existing support programmes for ERC applicants by helping to identify international experts to provide coaching and advice.