ERC Advanced Grants 2025
Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.
Scientific excellence is the sole evaluation criterion for ERC Advanced Grants, judged jointly on the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of the research project and on the Principal Investigator's own intellectual capacity, creativity and commitment -- there's no separate scoring for impact or implementation the way other Horizon Europe grants use. The grant itself is paid as a singl…
This call is for Principal Investigators who are already established research leaders with a recognised track record, in any field of science, who want to pursue an ambitious, high-risk frontier-research project. Applicants must show the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their proposed research, and the host institution can be any public or private legal entity — including universities, research organisations or companies — based in an EU Member State or Associated Country.
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