Objective

ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme.

This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any Member State or Associated Country.

Applicant Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

The ERC's frontier research grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities.

The call 'ERC-2014-STG' consists of one call with a single deadline applying to all research domains.

Requirements

The Principal Investigator shall have been awarded their first PhD at least 2 and up to 7 years prior to the publication date of the call for proposals of the ERC Starting Grant.

The effective elapsed time since the award of the first PhD can be reduced in certain properly documented circumstances.

Information about the proposal

- Administrative Proposal Submission forms (including Ethics Review Table) available online via the Participant Portal Submission System (PPSS) - pre-registration is required first.

- The Research Proposal (Parts B1 and B2, see documents attached)

Proposal part B1:
- Extended Synopsis: 5 pages
- Curriculum Vitae: 2 pages
- Funding ID: no page limit
- Track Record: 2 pages
Proposal part B2
- Scientific Proposal: 15 pages

- Host Institution Binding Statement of Support
- PhD record and, if applicable, supporting documentation for eligibility checking (for Starting and Consolidator Grants only).
- Ethics review self-assessment (if applicable) and supporting documentation

IMPORTANT. The submission session is now available

Funding

Up to a maximum of EUR 1 500 000 for a period of 5 years.

However, up to an additional EUR 500 000 can be requested in the proposal to cover:

- eligible "start-up" costs for Principal Investigators moving to the EU or an Associated Country from elsewhere as a consequence of receiving the ERC grant and/or
- the purchase of major equipment and/or
- access to large facilities.

Duration

5 years

Important

Important extensions to the restrictions on applications will apply from the 2015 calls based on the outcome of the evaluation of the 2014 calls – see restrictions on submission of proposals under the "Eligibility criteria" section of the Work Programme.

The link for the electronic proposal submission system will be made available in January.

Participant Portal link

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/calls/erc-2014-stg.html

Guide for applicants link

http://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/info_for_applicants_stg_cog_2014.pdf

In case of interest, please contact with FSJD Research's Department

Roser Arnalte rarnalte@fsjd.org 93 6009751 ext. 77803

Alia Ode aode@fsjd.org 93 6009751 ext. 77810

Maite López mlopez@fsjd.org 93 6009751 ext. 77811

Jose de Dios josep.dedios@pssjd.org 93 6406350 ext.12581