Cash grants

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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.

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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Funding for human studies of biological mechanisms in precision prevention.

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Funding for five STFC core summer schools taking place in 2027.

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Funds two €6M research consortia that quantify agrobiodiversity's payoff and build the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably.

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Funds €9M research consortia that map, monitor and identify deep-sea species and habitats to guide EU and global ocean protection targets.

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Funds €5M lump-sum projects that build sensor and lab-based methods to map, test and protect Europe's groundwater ecosystems.

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Funds two €6.5M research projects tracking why insect populations are collapsing and testing ways to reverse it, pollinators aside.

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Funds two €5M research consortia building tools that map ecosystem responses to climate and policy pressures, verified in real biogeographic case studies.

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Funds two €6.5M research projects building the tools to predict biodiversity loss and keep protected areas working as pressures intensify.

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Funds two €6M projects that show how farmers can earn from carbon and biodiversity credits without shrinking Europe's food supply.

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Funds two €4M projects for European consortia building bio-based products and studying whether people will actually adopt them.

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Funds research consortia developing the pre-normative science behind future standards for bio-based chemicals, polymers and other bio-based products.

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Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.

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Funds two €3M projects that build the monitoring tools and EU-wide data to map how much biomass Europe supplies and needs, tested in at least 10 countries.

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Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.

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Funds a single €3M contract for policy researchers to run advisory and benchmarking work that helps EU governments grow their bioeconomies — not a lab grant.

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Funds two €5M consortia building city and regional systems that collect, sort and repair textiles instead of sending them to landfill.

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Funds two €5M projects building the tech and the market to make recycled electronics a real source of critical raw materials for Europe.

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Funds consortia developing biotech and nature-based decontamination methods for war-damaged land, water and air, proven on real sites in Ukraine.

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Funds one €10M project to build the scientific methods and indicators that track how noise from human activity disrupts marine ecosystems across EU seas.

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Funds industrial consortia that recycle multilayer plastic food packaging back into food-contact-safe plastic, at scale.

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Funds demonstrations that separate poly-blend garments and home fabrics so European recyclers can turn them into new fibre, up to €6M per project.

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Funds two €6M projects that store wet-season water underground so farms can draw on it when drought hits.