Target audience
Excellent Principal Investigators, at different careers stages, holding PhD or having a recognised track record of research achievements, willing to demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition, and feasibility of their research proposal.
The project
5/6 years project, which addresses important scientific challenges, setting ambitious objectives and beyond the state of the art, demonstrating ground-breaking nature and feasibility of the research proposal.
EU funding
The ERC provides attractive, long-term funding to support excellent investigators and their research teams, to pursue ground-breaking and ambitious research: between 1.5-2.5 million € for individual researchers and 10 million € for a Synergy group.
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