Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
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Call
Summary
The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.
Detailed Call Description
Support for excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme.
Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.
A Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of research independence.
Size of ERC Consolidator Grants
Consolidator Grants may be awarded up to a maximum of €2 000 000 for a period of 5 years. The maximum size of the grants is reduced pro rata temporis for projects of a shorter duration. (This does not apply to ongoing projects).
Additional funding up to €1 000 000 can be requested in the proposal to cover the following eligible costs when these are necessary to carry out the proposed work: (a) “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 (b) the purchase of major equipment and/or (c) access to large facilities and/or (d) other major experimental and field work costs, excluding personnel costs.
Additional funding is not subject to pro rata temporis reduction for projects of shorter duration.
All funding requested is assessed during evaluation.
Profile of the ERC Consolidator Grant Principal Investigator
The Principal Investigators shall have successfully defended their first PhD at least 7 and up to 12 years prior to 1 January 2024. Successful defence of PhD between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2016 (inclusive).
The eligibility period can be extended beyond 12 years in certain properly documented circumstances.
For further information, please see the ERC Work Programme 2024.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Funding rate 100% / 25% for indirect costs.
Additional funding up to €1 000 000.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Eligible Principal Investigators: The ERC actions are open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Associated Country (see Annex 3 of the ERC Work Programme 2024). Principal Investigators may be of any age and nationality and may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application.
There are specific eligibility criteria for a Principal Investigator applying to the Consolidator Grants based on the date of the successful defence of their first PhD degree (or equivalent doctoral degree) as described in the ERC Work Programme 2024 (see also Annex 2 ‘ERC policy on PhD and equivalent doctoral degrees’ and specific provisions for applicants holding a degree in medicine).
All Principal Investigators funded through an ERC Consolidator Grant must spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in an EU Member State or Associated Country and a minimum of 40% of their working time on the ERC project.
Eligible Host Institution: The Host Institution (Applicant Legal Entity) must either be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country (see Annex 3 of the ERC Work Programme 2024) as a legal entity created under national law, or it may be an international European research organisation (such as CERN, EMBL, etc.), or any other entity created under EU law. International organisations with headquarters in a Member State or Associated Country will be deemed to be established in that Member State or Associated Country.
Any type of legal entity, public or private, including universities, research organisations and undertakings can host Principal Investigators and their teams.
Principal Investigators may reside in any country in the world at the time of the application. Principal Investigators funded through the ERC frontier research grants shall spend a minimum percentage of their working time on the ERC project (40%) and a minimum percentage of their working time in an EU Member State or Associated Country (50%).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Dr Kalypso Sepou
Head of European Programmes Department
Telephone: +357 22 205 066
Email: kalypso@research.org.cy
Dr Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy
Katerina Karakasidou
Scientific Officer
Email: kkarakasidou@research.org.cy
EU Contact Point
Consolidator Grants: ERC-2023-COG-APPLICANTS@ec.europa.eu