ERC Synergy Grant
Funds teams of two to four principal investigators carrying out joint frontier research in any scientific field through ERC Synergy Grants.
Eligibility · EU and Horizon Europe associated countries
The ERC Synergy Grant is a European Research Council grant for a group of two to four Principal Investigators who combine different skills and resources to tackle a research problem too big for any one of them to handle alone. It sits inside Horizon Europe, the EU's research and innovation programme, alongside the ERC's other frontier-research grants for individual researchers — Starting, Consolid…
Any scientific or scholarly field, chosen bottom-up with no fixed priorities — the team's shared research problem has to need skills and resources that no single Principal Investigator could bring alone. Deep-tech relevance depends on the specific topic each team proposes (for example, materials science, quantum information, energy systems, or biotechnology).
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