The ERC Plus Grant 2026 competition, the first of its kind, closed for applications on 2. The ERC received 198 project ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Starting Grant competition. The funding, worth €705 million in total, will go to 421 early-career researchers across ...

ERC grantee Elena Esposito has been awarded the 2026 Balzan Prize for the social science of digital technology. The jury recognised “her groundbreaking theoretical contribution to the social science ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the awarding of 421 Starting Grants to outstanding early-career researchers across Europe, as part of the Horizon Europe programme. To illustrate the ...

The ERC received 3 458 proposals - 3.9% more than last year and 37% compared to the year before. The highest number of ...

The Ambassadors for the ERC are ERC grantees who help promote the value of frontier research and scientific excellence and raise awareness of the mission and funding opportunities of the European ...

Interested? Send your application to ERC-SELECTION@ec.europa.eu by 15 September 2026 at 12:00 pm (Brussels time).

A group of two to maximum four Principal Investigators (PIs) working together and bringing different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. One will be designated as the ...