Europa Excelencia — ERC Near-Miss Supplement
Connects research teams and institutions for Europa Excelencia ERC Near Miss Supplement in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and climate technology.
Europa Excelencia 2026 is a competitive national supplement call administered by Spain's Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) under MICIU, designed to fund research projects that received a positive scientific evaluation from the European Research Council (ERC) under Horizon Europe's Excellent Science pillar but were not ultimately awarded ERC funding due to the ERC's budgetary constraints. It t…
National funding for research projects positively evaluated by the ERC (Starting, Consolidator, or Advanced Grants) but not awarded due to ERC budgetary constraints.
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