Proyectos «Europa Excelencia»
Funds frontier research projects in Spain with positive European Research Council evaluations.
Proyectos Europa Excelencia 2026, administered by Spain's Agencia Estatal de Investigación under the Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2024-2027, is a targeted programme designed to rescue high-quality frontier research proposals that were positively evaluated by the European Research Council but ultimately not funded due to ERC budget constraints. The programme cov…
Funds frontier research projects in Spain whose ERC Starting, Consolidator, or Advanced Grant proposals were evaluated positively but went unfunded by the ERC due to budget constraints.
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