The aim is to provide support for a small group of two to four Principal Investigators to jointly address ambitious research problems that could not be addressed by the individual Principal Investigators and their teams working alone. Synergy projects should enable substantial advances at the frontiers of knowledge, stemming, for example, from the cross-fertilization of scientific fields, from new productive lines of enquiry, or new methods and techniques, including unconventional approaches and investigations at the interface between established disciplines. The transformative research funded by Synergy Grants should have the potential of becoming a benchmark on a global scale.

Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal. Principal Investigators must also demonstrate that their group can successfully bring together the scientific elements necessary to address the scope and complexity of the proposed research question.

Synergy Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of EUR 10.000.000 for a period of 6 years. The maximum award is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration. This does not apply to ongoing projects.

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Applicants must present an early achievement track-record or a 10-year track-record - whichever is most appropriate for their career stage. Applicants Principal Investigators (PIs) must demonstrate the synergies, complementarities and added value that could lead to breakthroughs that would not be possible by the individual Principal Investigators working alone.

Proposals are submitted by a group of two to four PIs - of which one will be designated as the corresponding PI (cPI) - working together and bringing different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. PIs can apply within the same host institutions (HIs) or through different HIs.

While HIs must usually be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country, one PI per Synergy Grant  Group, except the cPI, may be hosted and engaged by an institution in a Third Country. In all cases, the ERC expects the composition of a Synergy Grant  Group to remain unchanged throughout the lifetime of the grant , so all HIs must engage the Principal Investigators for at least the duration of the grant.

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