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Pays one coordination team to run the EU-wide policy forum that gets governments, regulators and industry to agree on which animal-testing-alternative methods are ready for official use.

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Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in an EU Widening country to help those countries attract and keep research talent.

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Offers Romania-based teams through ERA4Health PREVENTOO to develop obesity prevention innovation with international scope.

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Funds investigator-led frontier research across disciplines, enabling high-risk discovery with strong scientific autonomy.

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Funds frontier research by established researchers in Europe-backed programmes across any discipline with high-risk, high-impact ambitions.

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Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

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Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

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Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

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Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.

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Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.

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Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

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Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.

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Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.

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Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.

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Supports Romanian rare disease groups through ERDERA partnerships building stronger diagnostic and care innovation.

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Funds space AI initiatives for Swedish companies, universities, and institutes through national collaboration with ESA.

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Funds space-enabled sustainability research proposals through ESA Phi-Lab UK's open call.

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Invests research teams and institutions for ESA VDES Arctic System Study in space technology and defense innovation.

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Supports Egyptian and Spanish firms in joint innovation for digital solutions and market access.

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Funds one project to build the infrastructure, training and digital tools needed to run same-day orthopaedic and cardiology surgical centres in Europe.

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Supports teams producing country-level estimates of major diarrheal diseases to inform global health planning and child health priorities.

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Pays a EUR 90 million lump sum to a consortium of national and regional research-funding bodies, which then runs its own joint annual calls handing out grants of up to EUR 2 million to individual raw-materials projects.

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Funds development of new digital-twin-of-the-ocean applications, using AI and real-time data, for ocean policy, business or management use cases across multiple sea basins.

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Funds a framework to measure how the EU's demand for food, feed, fibre and biomass imports degrades soil health outside Europe, especially in Latin America and Africa.