HORIZON EUROPE – Call for Proposals for ERC Starting Grant – 2025

Objectives:

The ERC Starting Grant supports excellent Principal Investigators starting or having recently started their own independent research team or programme. A Starting Grant Principal Investigator should have already shown evidence of the potential for research independence, for example, by having produced at least one important publication as its main author or a publication without the participation of their PhD supervisor.

TOPICS:

Open

• ERC STARTING GRANTS: ERC-2026-STG

Additional information

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Useful

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• Total budget of the call: 705 million euros
• Amount of the grant: up to 1 500 000 euros
• Funding rate: up to  100% for direct costs plus a flat rate of 25% for indirect costs