Its main aim is to stimulate scientific excellence by supporting and encouraging the very best, truly creative scientists, scholarsand engineersto be adventurous and take risks in their research.
The scientists are encouraged to go beyond established frontiers of knowledge and the boundaries of disciplines.
The ERC aims to:
- Put excellence at the heart of European Research.
- Support the best of the best scientific efforts in Europe across all fields of science, scholarship and engineering.
- Promote'bottom-up' frontier research.
- Encourage the work of the established and next generation of independent top research leaders in Europe.
- Reward innovative proposals by placing emphasis on the quality of the idea rather than the research area.
- Harness the diversity of European research talent and channel funds into the most promising or distinguished researchers.
- Raise the status and visibility of European frontier research and the very best researchers of today and tomorrow.
Frontier Research Project: all fields of research are eligible
Applications can be made in any field of research - including the social sciences and humanities - with particular emphasis on the frontiers of science, scholarship and engineering. In particular, proposals of an interdisciplinary nature which cross the boundaries between different fields of research, pioneering proposals addressing new andemerging fields of research or proposals introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions are encouraged, as long as the expected impact could be significant.
The ERC funding activitiesinvolve two major grant schemes: the ERC Starting Independent Researcher grant scheme (ERC Starting Grants) and the ERC Advanced Investigator grant scheme (ERC Advanced Grants).
For detailed information, visit the ERC Website, or Contact us.
